Super Bowl LVIII is Most-Watched Telecast in History
CBS Sports' coverage of Super Bowl LVIII, which featured the Kansas City Chiefs' 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers, delivered the most-watched telecast in history with a 123.4 million average viewers across all platforms, including the CBS Television Network, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision, and CBS Sports and NFL digital properties, including NFL+.
Viewership figures are based on Nielsen Fast National data and Adobe Analytics.
Record-Setting Viewership
Super Bowl LVIII is the most-watched program ever, averaging 123.4 million viewers across all platforms, up +7% versus last year's Super Bowl which was the previous record (115.1 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.
CBS Leads the Way with Largest Audience Ever for Single Network
Super Bowl LVIII on CBS led the way with 120.0 million viewers, the largest audience in history for a single network.
Super Bowl LVIII capped off a record-setting season for CBS Sports. The “NFL ON CBS" scored the most-watched regular season since the NFL returned to CBS in 1998 as well as the Network's best postseason viewership since 1998.
Most-Streamed Super Bowl Ever
Super Bowl LVIII is the most-streamed Super Bowl in history led by a record-setting audience on Paramount+.
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More than 200 million viewers (202.4) watched all-or-part of Super Bowl LVIII
Super Bowl LVIII
Watch all of the highlights from the thrilling overtime game between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Apollo 11 moon landing is generally considered to have been the most watched event in American television history, having garnered an estimated viewership of between 125 and 150 million viewers.
According to Nielsen's National panel measurement, Super Bowl LVIII averaged nearly 124 million viewers on CBS Television Network, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision, and CBS Sports, Univision and NFL digital properties, including NFL+. It ranks as the most-watched Super Bowl of all time.
Table of Contents. It's no exaggeration to say that the Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event of the year. Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles smashed viewership records, drawing over 115 million sets of eyeballs in the U.S. alone.
American football's NFL has announced an international total viewership of 62.5 million people for the 2023 edition of its showpiece season finale, the Super Bowl.
CBS Sports' coverage of Super Bowl LVIII, which featured the Kansas City Chiefs' 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers, delivered the most-watched telecast in history with a 123.4 million average viewers across all platforms, including the CBS Television Network, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision, and ...
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Football Continues to Rank as Americans' Favorite Sport
Trend in Americans' favorite sport to watch, from 1937 to 2023. Forty-one percent of U.S. adults in late 2023 name football as their favorite sport, well ahead of the next-most- popular sports, baseball and basketball, named by 10% and 9%, respectively.
Nearly six decades later, the Apollo 11 moon landing still stands at the most-watched TV program of all time. Across all networks, upwards of 150 million people tuned in to watch humans touch down on the surface of the moon.
The Super Bowl is an annual tradition that gets bigger every year. But its reach, while vast in the U.S., pales when placed alongside the biggest sporting event — and that is the World Cup. The World Cup shatters viewership records with an astonishing 5 billion viewers globally.
The 2024 Super Bowl was watched by 202 million people worldwide. The last World Cup Final was watched by by 1.5 billion people worldwide. The math is pretty simple.
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Top TV shows by total viewer numbers in the U.S. 2022-2023
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