Its first day earned around 741,000 unique viewers, with a by-the-minute audience (280,000) that was for that day lower than other Netflix premieres such as Altered Carbon Season 1.
However, that number quickly rose up by the third day of release, where it was over a million per-minute viewers, and that total had jumped to over 4 million per-minute viewers on the ninth day.
What’s very important to note for Tiger King’s success is how quickly its initially modest audience grew in size as the word-of-mouth opinions spread like a wildfire.