The Vampire Diaries
The series premiere of "The Vampire Diaries" on September 10, 2009, gave The CW its biggest series premiere, scoring 4.91 million viewers. Adding in DVR numbers, the ratings for the premiere swelled to an official 5.7 million viewers. In 2016, a "New York Times" study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "as with several other shows that focus on the supernatural", "The Vampire Diaries" was "slightly more popular outside of cities. That said, the show's fandom has the smallest amount of spatial variation of all 50 shows".
Vampire films
From 2001 onward vampire web series became popular around the world. One of the first web series was the 2001 series "The Hunted". It is about a group of vampire slayers who have been bitten by vampires (but not yet turned into vampires) and try to fight the bloodsucking vampires. "The Hunted" was followed by "" (2007) and "" (2008) who were based on the films "30 Days of Night" and "". In 2009 the MTV online series "Valemont" follows Maggie Gracen, who decides to infiltrate Valemont University, because her brother Eric has vanished. She soon finds out that the University is full of vampires. The 2009 web series "I Heart Vampires" focuses on two teenage vampire fans, who find out that vampires are more than real. In 2011 the "Being Human" spin-off "Becoming Human" was released online. It is about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost who go to a school together and try to solve a murder. The 2014 vampire series "Carmilla" tells the story of the vampire Carmilla Karnstein, who visits the university and falls in love with a human girl.