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Even as streaming continues to grow, subscribers are still cycling through the premium services to watch their favorite shows, rather than committing to any or all of them. According to Samba TV’s latest State of Viewership Report, U.S. households watched a record level of streaming content in the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Challenge had its best premiere ratings in three years with the debut of Season 40. Television’s longest-running reality competition show scored a 0.49 rating among adults 18 to 49 for the episode that aired Wednesday night on MTV, according to live+same-day audience data from…

The Boys scored big in its Season 4 finale week, once again scoring over a billion minutes viewed and setting a few Nielsen streaming records for Prime Video. The series racked up more than 1.3B minutes viewed from July 15 to 21, marking its highest weekly total and putting it at No. 1 among…

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder both managed audience boosts last week to reclaim their spots atop the Netflix streaming charts. The Spongebob spinoff movie managed 13.4M views, making it the most-watched title of the week, while A Good Girl’s Guide to M…

Warner Bros. Discovery and the BBC have championed record ratings at the Paris Olympics. Having spent the day number crunching viewing over the past fortnight or so, the behemoths have spotlighted rocketing views to sporting events compared to the prior games three years ago. WBD, which…

House of the Dragon reigned over the Nielsen streaming charts from July 8 to 14, but it looks like Love Island is the real winner here. The reality dating series achieved its first billion-minute week during this interval, thanks to the buzz around Season 6 of the U.S.-spinoff. By just surpassing…

Sunday saw the second biggest U.S. audience of the Paris Olympics so far with more than 35M viewers tuning in across NBC, Peacock and other platforms. That’s more than double the comparable Sunday audience for the Tokyo Games (17.4M cross-platform viewers), headlined by medal-worthy performances from…

The House of the Dragon Season 2 had a strong finish. Sunday night’s finale drew 8.9M viewers across HBO and digital platforms, the network announced Monday. That marks a season-high audience, with 14% growth over the Season 2 premiere’s 7.8M. However, it is still down versus the Season 1…

Nielsen recorded its biggest week of streaming ever over the Fourth of July holiday, as all ten of the most-watched titles reached over a billion minutes viewed. In total, the week led to more than 313B viewing minutes from July 1 to July 7 — the highest that Nielsen has ever recorded and, the…

The U.S. women’s gymnastics team led a big day for Team USA at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, which translated to a huge audience for NBCUniversal’s platforms. Tuesday saw a total audience delivery of 34.7 million viewers across NBC, Peacock and the company’s other digital platforms, according to…

There’s a sense of déjà vu on the Netflix Top 10 this week, as the No. 1 spots in film and TV haven’t changed. Harry Connick Jr.’s Find Me Falling was again the week’s most-watched title, taking first place in English-language films with 16.1 million views. That’s up nearly 2M from its debut…

Good news for NBCUniversal: The Paris Olympics are off to a great start with a big win out of Friday’s Opening Ceremony. Nearly 29 million tuned in for the extravaganza, according to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That’s a more than 60% leap up from the pandemic-delayed 2021 Tokyo Olympics…