Ride the Netflix Cultural Wave With Your Next Product #122
Dec 03, 2020•9 min•Season 2Ep. 22
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Episode description
The Netflix Effect is real. Queens Gambit debuts on Netflix October 23, 2020. Since then, massive demand for chess products and content has incresaed.
- 62 million households have watched Queens Gambit
- Inquiries for "chess sets" are up 250% on eBay (and probably Amazon but we don't have data on this)
- Google search queries for "how to play chess' has hit an all-time high in 9 years.
- The original novel The Queens Gambit is now a New York Times bestseller 37 years after its release.
- The number of new players on chess.com has 5x
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