Facebook and YouTube Stats Show the Buzz About 'Steve Jobs' Is Huge for a Biopic

20 million video views so far

If any CEO is known for creating buzz before a product launch, it's Steve Jobs. Apple's co-founder was the king of hype. Now, his legacy is being measured in a new way—especially when it comes to Facebook and YouTube video views.

On Friday, the highly anticipated, eponymous biopic about the late celebrity CEO will debut in a limited number of theaters, but prepremiere chatter is already well underway. Moviepilot compared the buzz to the 19 days leading up to two Oscar-nominated biopics from last year—The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game—and observed that Steve Jobs beats them both (and almost collectively) on several metric fronts.

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