Prepared based on statista.com’s article
The coronavirus outbreak led people to search on the internet for the Hollywood movie Contagion, a nine-year-old film directed by Steven Soderbergh about a flu pandemic.
In December Contagion was the 270th most-watched Warner Bros film and by March, after the coronavirus swept the world – killing at least 3,300 people globally – it became the second most-watched.
This data was calculated with the help of Google Trends – a website by Google that analyzes the popularity of search words in Google Search on a 100 point scale, meaning higher the point, more that certain word was googled.
According to Google Trends’s data, in 2019 “Contagion movie” had 4-8 points in the ranking, while in January 2020 it had 84 points and in March it reached the highest 100 points.
ინფოგრაფიკა: statista.com