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 1996, Super Bowl XXX was watched by 1.7 million viewers in Ontario according to Nielsen. The next year, viewership declined to 1,528,000 but returned to 1.7 million for the 1998 game, which drew approximately 3 million viewers nationwide. [ 105 ] That out-rates last year’s big game—which held the record for the most-watched Super Bowl and second-most watched broadcast ever, at 115.1 million watchers—but fell short of the 150 million 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. NFL Super Bowl halftime show viewers in the The Super Bowl has surpassed 100 million viewers every year since 2010, topping out at 126.3 million in 2017 and 123.7 million in 2024. The Most-Watched Super Bowls in History Super Bowl Canada: Total audience reach of 18.8 million, with an average of 10.1 million viewers, up +16% year-on-year and the highest since tracking began — one of the top 5 most-watched English-language NEW YORK – February 13, 2024 – An estimated 123.7 million viewers tuned in for Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, February 11, according to average audience estimates from Nielsen. The broadcast averaged 120.3 million viewers on CBS alone, making it the largest audience for a single-network telecast to date. 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 Earlier Super Bowls did better when it comes to TV ratings, with the highest-rated Super Bowl being a 49.1 in 1982 between the 49ers and Bengals. Of the five highest-rated Super Bowls ever, four According to the custom survey, Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11 reached approximately 210 million viewers – nearly 2/3 of Americans – across CBS Television Network, Paramount+, Nickelodeon 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 Every year, the Super Bowl attracts more than 100 million viewers in the U.S. alone, but globally, the numbers are often even higher. According to recent estimates, the event surpasses 200 million 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. 2014: FOX said Super Bowl XLVIII had a streaming average minute audience of 528,000 viewers and peak concurrent viewership of 1.1 million, with users spending an average of 47.8 minutes watching the stream. 2013: CBS Sports said Super Bowl XLVII had a streaming average minute audience of 508,000 with an average viewing time of 38 minutes. The That’s 2.1 million more than the 113 million viewers initially reported after the game, making it the most-watched Super Bowl of all time, topping the 114.4 million viewers who watched New Even more viewers showed up for Rihanna's performance in the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, which drew an average of 118.7 million viewers across TV and digital platforms, per FOX. Approximately 200 million viewers -- 60% of all people in the United States -- watched Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12. This surpassed the previous record held by the 2023 Super Bowl between the Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles which had 115.1 million average viewers. Simply put, the Super Bowl does not have the Super Bowl viewership increased in every single demographic, but no more than in the young and female demos that attracted so much attention this season. The biggest year-over-year gain in Super Bowl viewership this year was among women 18-24, 3.87 million of whom tuned in across CBS and Univision — up 24% from last year (3.18M). Paramount Global carried the Super Bowl last year on both CBS and its Paramount Plus subscription streaming service, drawing about 8 million viewers on the latter amid some glitchiness in the game
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