--- title: 5-Second Game of Thrones Teaser Leaked Online description: A 5-second teaser clip from Game of Thrones, Season 5, was leaked on YouTube Monday, despite HBO's spirited attempt to keep the content securely within the show's official webpage. canonical: https://time.com/3636015/game-of-thrones-season-5-teaser-online/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-16T17:35:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:03:57.666Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 5-Second 'Game of Thrones' Teaser Leaked Online og:description: Don't blink. og:url: https://time.com/3636015/game-of-thrones-season-5-teaser-online/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13358eec4f8bda7a/698698b4cd6848891609554d/gameofthrones14_05.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: gameofthrones14_05 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 5-Second 'Game of Thrones' Teaser Leaked Online twitter:description: Don't blink. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13358eec4f8bda7a/698698b4cd6848891609554d/gameofthrones14_05.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 5-Second _Game of Thrones_ Teaser Leaked Online  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Dec 16, 2014 5:35 PM CUT  HBO  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Dec 16, 2014 5:35 PM CUT A 5-second teaser clip from _Game of Thrones_, Season 5, was leaked on YouTube Monday, despite HBO’s spirited attempt to keep the content securely within the show’s official webpage. HBO [invited](https://www.threeeyedraven.com/#!/ "undefined") fans to visit the show’s official webpage and sign up for access to the clip by entering their personal phone numbers. A link to the clip was then sent to the fan’s mobile phone, at which point the clip could be played just once, only on that mobile device, before it vanished into the ether. That is, until one crafty Redditor, [spotted](http://www.vulture.com/2014/12/game-of-thrones-season-5-teaser.html?mid=facebook%5Fvulture "undefined") by Vulture, finagled a way to record the clip and share it over YouTube. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3636015/game-of-thrones-season-5-teaser-online/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3636015/game-of-thrones-season-5-teaser-online/"},"headline":"5-Second Game of Thrones Teaser Leaked Online","datePublished":"2014-12-16T17:35:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:57.666Z","description":"Don't blink","url":"https://time.com/3636015/game-of-thrones-season-5-teaser-online/","keywords":["Tech","Television","game of thrones"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13358eec4f8bda7a/698698b4cd6848891609554d/gameofthrones14_05.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13358eec4f8bda7a/698698b4cd6848891609554d/gameofthrones14_05.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"gameofthrones14_05","caption":"","creditText":"HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3636015/game-of-thrones-season-5-teaser-online/","name":"5-Second Game of Thrones Teaser Leaked Online"}}]}] ```