IMDb on Tuesday unveiled its report on 10 years of streaming in India. Though The Viral Fever (TVF) released India’s first web series, Permanent Roommates, back in 2014 on YouTube, it was only after subscription-based global giants like Netflix and Prime Video made inroads into the country two years later, in 2016, that the streaming movement in India kicked off.
As part of its detailed report, IMDb also released the lists of Most Popular Indian Series for every year of the past decade. Getting an early head start on the streaming revolution, TVF topped the 2016 list with Pitchers, which dropped on YouTube. It covered two other spots in the top 10 that year — Permanent Roommates on #2 and Tripling on #9.
Prime Video India dropped its maiden series, Karan Anshuman’s crime thriller show Inside Edge, in 2017, which topped the list that year. It led to TVF Pitchers slipping down to #3 and Permanent Roommates to #9.…