The last two Super Bowl's have set audience records, averaging 123.7 million viewers last year. This season NFL regular season and postseaon ratings have dropped The Super Bowl isn't the event it once was. While the Super Bowl has managed to remain the most-watched live event of the year, it has not managed to maintain its robust viewership numbers in the age of cord-cutting and media saturation. According to an article from CNBC , the Super Bowl ratings for viewers aged 18 to 49 have decreased every year for the past 10 years - from 52.2 million Super Bowl 55 (Chiefs-49ers) — the final Super Bowl before Nielsen began including out-of-home — averaged an in-home audience of 100.45 million on FOX and (per Adweek) an out-of-home audience of 11 million. The sharp decline of in-home viewership tracks with the trend in household ratings (which by definition do not include out-of-home 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 After a delay in the release of Nielsen figures that caused many industry observers to fear that the Super Bowl LV viewership numbers would fall far short of Super Bowl LIV, they did. Via Eric Fisher of SportsBusiness Group, the total audience (including out-of-home viewership and all streaming platforms) averaged 96.4 million. Last year, that With around 91.6 million viewers on CBS alone, the 2021 Super Bowl is still the most watched show of the past year. However, taking an 8% stumble from what Fox had on its broadcast network last Super Bowl LV's 100,776,469 average viewership was a 10.2% decrease from 2020's 111,059,359 viewers. Peak viewership of 111M occurred with 6 seconds remaining in the 2nd quarter when Antonio Brown caught a late touchdown to put Tampa Bay up 21-6 heading into halftime. The number of Americans who watched the Super Bowl on TV last year fell 13% from the peak in 2015, but the average cost of a 30-second advertising spot has just kept climbing.This year, the retail Super Bowl LV drew an average of 96.4 million viewers on Sunday across TV and streaming platforms, the lowest viewership since Super Bowl XLI in 2007. At 96.4 million, viewership on Sunday was The NFL is not ditching the Black national anthem ahead of the Super Bowl, and its most conservative fans are in an uproar. As a result, several football fanatics have expressed plans to boycott Each year, the Super Bowl draws upward of 100 million eyeballs—Super Bowl LVIII 2024 was the most-watched program in U.S. history, averaging 123.7 million viewers—and a significant chunk of Is The Super Bowl Losing Popularity? The Super Bowl is undoubtedly the most watched broadcast in the US year after year. According to the NFL, the highest Super Bowl viewership in NFL history was Super Bowl LVII in 2023, with 115 million views. The last time the NFL saw numbers like that was Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 with 114 million viewers. 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 Every Sports Reference Social Media Account. Site Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2:32PM Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Subscribe to our Free Email Newsletter Will Taylor wear the same outfit as Super Bowl 58? Yes: +195 / No: -310 I am no fashion guru, but to me this is an easy no. Swift is almost made of money and coming off a highly successful tour. In 2023, Tubi took over the Super Bowl with a prank ad that had people questioning whether their Big Game feeds had gone down. Now, the Fox-owned ad-supported streamer is following that up by The 49ers won a record five straight Super Bowl appearances without losing. Of the 32 NFL teams, 12 have never won a Super Bowl. The Super Bowl viewership numbers are fairly even regarding gender. Rewards App Fetch is Giving Away $1.2 Million During the Super Bowl In its Super Bowl debut, Fetch will give away $10,000 during every second of the game's final two minutes Super Bowl I was the only Super Bowl that was not a sellout, despite the TV blackout in Los Angeles (at the time, the local blackout was required even at a neutral site and even if the stadium did sell out), shutting out the vast Los Angeles market and network-owned stations KNXT (Channel 2, CBS; now KCBS-TV) and KNBC (Channel 4, NBC).
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