Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) had some tough competition in its debut week on Disney+. The film landed on the streamer March 14 and racked up 677M minutes in its first few days on the platform, according to Nielsen. That placed it at No. 8 overall on Nielsen’s streaming list for the week
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Audiences more time than usual watching TV in November. In fact, TV usage was up 5.7% to be the highest-measured month since January 2023, according to Nielsen‘s latest monthly TV viewing report, The Gauge. That was, naturally, underscored by the week of Thanksgiving, when overall viewing peaked and measured an increase of over 14%. Once
It’s starting to seem like Suits may never give up its throne. The legal drama once again sat atop Nielsen‘s streaming charts for the week of September 25 to October 1. While viewership is still dropping steadily, the series clocked 1.3B minutes viewed across Netflix and Peacock during this interval, which indicates that it still
It’s a streaming world, and we’re just living in it. It is no secret that streaming dominates the TV landscape, but Nielsen measured a new (and somewhat grim) milestone for broadcast and cable in July’s edition of the company’s monthly state of TV report, The Gauge. For the first time, linear TV viewership accounted for
Suits has found a second life on Netflix and Peacock. The legal dramedy reigned over Nielsen’s streaming charts for the third consecutive week from July 10 to July 16 with another 3.7B views across the two services. In fact, it managed to eke out another audience record for most-streamed program in a single measurement week
The Watcher surged 10% in its second week on Netflix, collecting 2.6 billion minutes of viewing to repeat at No. 1 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of October 17 to 23. The Ryan Murphy-produced thriller series easily outdistanced another Netflix title, The School for Good and Evil, which finished second with about
The Watcher cruised to a win in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of October 10 to 16, giving producer Ryan Murphy his second top show less than a month after the release of the blowout hit Dahmer. With 2.355 billion minutes of streaming, the series more than doubled the viewership of runner-up The Lord
Jamie Foxx vampire movie Day Shift, in its second week of availability on Netflix, topped a subdued field on Nielsen’s streaming chart for the week of August 15-21. While no title cracked the 1 billion mark in terms of minutes of viewing, total streaming continued its precedent-setting dominance as a portion of the overall viewing
Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Marry Or Move On took the No. 1 spot from three-week champion Bridgerton on Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart. The unscripted series racked up 1.1 billion minutes of viewing in the week of April 11 to 17. It was the only show above the 1 billion mark in a subdued week overall. Better
In another 48 hours, we’ll know if it worked—the Oscar show’s Audience Replacement Therapy. Almost inevitably, total viewers for Sunday night’s Academy Awards telecast on ABC will rise from last year’s pathetic 10.4 million. The bar is very low, and other recent awards shows—the Emmys, SAG, Critics Choice—have all caught a bounce. For the Oscars
Numbers, those longtime pillars of the entertainment business, determiners of pay scale and quantifiers of the hot and the not, are vanishing from public view. Streaming’s inexorable takeover of the industry has altered the once-straightforward process of measuring the performance of TV programs and movies. Of course, there has been grumbling for decades about Nielsen’s
Manifest, the NBC series whose surge of streaming popularity led Netflix to bring it back for a fourth season, returned to top Nielsen’s weekly U.S. streaming chart. The 42 available episodes across three seasons racked up almost 1.4 billion minutes of total viewing from August 23 to 29. It’s the sixth weekly win for the
Ratings controversy is nothing new in the TV trenches, but the streaming shift is amping up the level of angst all around. The Media Rating Council, a government-founded, industry-supported organization that monitors various media stakeholders, fired the latest shot in the long war over measurement. It ripped Nielsen’s “deep-rooted, ongoing performance issues” in a statement