The Super Bowl ratings record remains a 49.1 for 49ers-Bengals in 1982, but the viewership record was set just this year (2024) — 123.7 million for Chiefs-49ers. While Chiefs-49ers owns the largest official Super Bowl audience on record, that is only because Nielsen did not begin including out-of-home viewing in its viewership estimates until In 1999, Super Bowl XXXIII was watched by 3,399,000 viewers—the largest electronically measured audience in the game's Canadian broadcast history. [59] This record would be broken the following year when the 2000 game was watched by 4 million, according to preliminary figures. [ 150 ] Last year’s Super Bowl was the most watched of all time with 123.7 million viewers. Year-over-year, the sum of viewers for both the Super Bowl and Conference Championship games increased The audience for Super Bowl LVIII was so large that it approached the all-time most watched television broadcast in the United States set in 1969, when an estimated 125 to 150 million viewers The NFL said that last year's Super Bowl drew in 62.5 million global viewers, which was a 10 percent increase from the year prior. Mexico and Canada combined for over 42 million viewers, but That shattered last year's mark of 115.1 It was the second straight year the Super Bowl averaged more than 100 million viewers after a period where four of the five games before 2023 had “No matter how or where viewers watch the game–at home with family and friends, at a bar, or streaming–Nielsen has the advanced measurement capabilities to capture the audience for the biggest TV event of the year.” The broadcast of Super Bowl LVIII ran from approximately 6:40 PM ET to 10:45 PM ET on CBS, Univision, Nickelodeon and Nick The Super Bowl proved to be a record-breaking culmination of an already historically impressive year for NFL games—matchups during the 2023 regular season drew an average of 17.9 million viewers Australia: Total audience reach of nearly 3 million, averaging over 1.2 million viewers — the highest since records began and up +26% year-on-year. China: Most-watched Super Bowl in the last 7 The National Football League championship averaged 120.3 million viewers on CBS , opens new tab alone on Sunday, topping last year's audience for the Super Bowl, which drew a record 115.1 million Last year's Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles drew 115 million viewers, the largest number since the epic New England Patriots-Seattle Seahawks slugfest in 2014 Super Bowl XX became the first game to surpass 90 million viewers and it would take another 20 years for the NFL to break 100 million viewers, as 106.5 million tuned in to watch Drew Brees and Approximately 200 million viewers -- 60% of all people in the United States -- watched Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12. "Nielsen has measured Super Bowl viewership for over 50 years giving us a More than 2.5 million people watched the 2023 Super Bowl in Brazil, making it the country with the most viewers in South America. China was the country outside of the Americas with the largest More than 200 million viewers (202.4) watched all-or-part of Super Bowl LVIII across all networks, the highest unduplicated total audience in history and up +10% versus last year's Super Bowl (183.6 million). Univision averaged more than 2.2 million viewers, the highest Super Bowl viewership on record for a Spanish-language network. How many people watched the Super Bowl? 2024's Super Bowl had a viewership of over 123 million, making it the most watched TV telecast of all time. Super Bowl LVII was also the most-streamed Super Bowl in history, per FOX, with 7 million streams, up 18% over last year's game, and the most-watched Super Bowl game in Spanish-language cable TV The only exceptions are Super Bowl 55 in 2021, which an estimated 95.9 million people tuned in for, and Super Bowl 53 in 2019, which recorded nearly 99 million estimated viewers. Last year's game The Super Bowl is one of, if not, the most-viewed television spectacles in the U.S. That’s why there will be more than 240 Sony cameras on hand to capture the event this weekend in New Orleans You are here: PFR Home Page > Super Bowl. Full Site Menu. Return to Top; Site Last Updated: Wednesday, February 5, 6:41AM Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction?
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