Streaming Ratings Report

This week is the calm before storm, with the “storm” being the last week of the year “Streaming Sweeps Week”. For those who don’t know, historically, “sweeps” months were a time period where Nielsen collected paper diaries four times per year. Knowing this, broadcasters put on their best programming to

I spent the last week deep in the “data trenches”. (For those curious, the data trenches are next to my Excel bunker.) I updated my estimates for U.S. streaming subscribers for each streamer, the most “apples-to-apples” look I think you’ll find for US subscriber counts in America. Then, yesterday, I

I had planned to publish a streaming ratings report last week, on 30-December, to cover the last two weeks of November. But then Nielsen didn’t put out their ratings last week, because (rightfully) it was the week after Christmas, so I skipped a week too, which means we have twice

The first weekend of August-2022 probably had the biggest collection of streaming films we’ve ever seen debut in one week, including Apple TV+’s Luck, Disney+’s Lightyear, Hulu’s Prey, Prime Video’s Thirteen Lives, and Netflix’s Uncharted. It truly was a “streaming film traffic jam” (SFTJ?). I called it “epic” at the

When Nielsen published Peacock’s ratings for the first time a few weeks back, I held my breath. Sure, Peacock let us know that Halloween Ends did really well for them, but if you’ll remember, HBO Max once let Nielsen tell us that Wonder Woman 1984 was a huge smash on

Due to the long Thanksgiving weekend, I didn’t publish a streaming ratings report on 25-November. But that meant analyzing an extra week’s worth of ratings data and assembling a double issue and, of course, it took me working through the weekend to get it finished. (Fingers crossed, we’re back on

This week is a “double” issue since I (finally) took a pre-planned vacation two weeks ago. That means we have two weeks worth of streaming data to cover. And it’s good we can take this time to cover the ratings, because it’s not like there’s been any other major entertainment

This week was a bit light on new shows on the Nielsen charts. There was the usual volume of new releases, but the top ten lists were dominated by the genre fare we’ve been writing about since August. This is a testament to how big those shows really were. Meanwhile,

When you try to collect and analyze all the streaming titles each week, you come across some weird TV premieres, like… – Panhandle on…Spectrum. (Even though they stopped making originals…) – Yara Shahidi’s Day Off on…Facebook Watch. (A video service that somehow still exists?) The best part about that latter