Increasingly some of the biggest and most anticipated shows have come not from traditional broadcasters but from streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix.
Unlike BBC and ITV, where the overheads for broadcasting a series are much the same whether 5,000 or 5 million tune in, streaming is a data-heavy way of making shows available – the more people who watch, the more bandwidth that is needed.
To help demonstrate this, hosting firm 100TB has totalled up the data used to stream some of the most popular recent shows to their eager armies of fans:
Provided by 100TB