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Streaming services remain most popular destination for U.S. TV viewing in December

2023 January 19 2023 January 24 / Ratings, Streaming Video

Nielsen’s Gauge for December, reveals several very interesting findings: Streaming Trend: Full Year Streaming continued its reign as the top category, capturing 38.1% of total TV usage, Streaming usage gained 10.4 share points climbing from 27.7% of total TV usage. Peacock Breaks Through Peacock made its debut in The Gauge this month, with a …

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David Attenborough’s Lasting Power #2: FROZEN PLANET II ices competition

2022 October 20 2022 October 24 / Conferences & Markets, PACT, Ratings, UK, Wildscreen Festival

Dominating the Competition A second UK audience snapshot, this one for the week starting 26 September, captures the enduring dominance across all Factual sub-genres of Attenborough’s brand of Natural History event programming. FROZEN PLANET 2 doubles the next most viewed program in the factual category. Top Ten UK Factual Week of September 26, 2022 (BARB) …

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David Attenborough’s Lasting Power: UK Natural History Ratings Snapshot, 2018-22

2022 October 13 2022 October 24 / Ratings, UK, Wildscreen Festival

As my tribute to David Attenborough‘s incomparable career, and as a conversation piece for delegates at Wildscreen, below is a five-year snapshot of BARB UK audience data for the Natural History genre. The shows are for BBC1, ranked by ‘000’s for highest single eps in series. Title Date Share ‘000’s SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET 10/27/2019 39.81% …

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Netflix & the Streamers Put a Blowtorch to the PayTV Model. What Do the Charts Say?

2022 August 23 2022 September 26 / Amazon, Apple, Commissioning Process, discovery+, Disney +, Netflix, OTT, Peacock, Ratings, Streaming Video, VOD

There’s a mixed bag of stories revealed in the charts that caught my eye during this rather slow Summer month. Bottom line: The shift to streaming is gathering pace: consumers are putting a blowtorch to the “melting icecube” of legacy broadcast and cable media. The data asks a big question: Do Discovery, Peacock, Paramount, and …

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Netflix & the Rise of the Streamers: What do the Charts Say?

2022 June 24 2022 June 27 / Amazon, Apple, discovery+, Disney +, Distribution, Internet Economy, Netflix, Ratings, Streaming Video

Netflix and the streamers share only a sliver of useful data about their viewing audience. However, a steady flow of independent research provides a jigsaw puzzle of insights into the streaming ecosystem. Lots of worthwhile data crossed my desk this month. Here are 12 highlight charts, with just a little commentary. Don’t miss my Desktop …

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Fading U.S. Channels: How steep is their audience decline in the streaming era?

2022 January 17 2022 January 19 / discovery+, Disney +, Netflix, Ratings, Reality Television, Streaming Video, Unscripted TV, VOD

Variety Intelligence recently published Fading Ratings, featuring a useful series of charts that captures the downward audience trend over five-to-seven years of several portfolios of U.S. networks. The starting points are 2014 or 2016. SVOD’s Rising: The context-setting chart highlights the rise of Netflix and the top subscription streamers. The SVOD’s may be leading the …

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Annual Nielsen Update of U.S. Population Trends and Latest Household Universes

2021 November 17 2021 November 17 / Ratings

Byron Media’s John Morse reports that Nielsen’s widely-used TV universe numbers provide an important context for advertising and therefore for programming and production targets. Nielsen updates all its universe national base counts once every year in September and they are the official estimates for 2022. KEY TAKEAWAYS: PAST YEAR CHANGES This year the total US …

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