Nielsen begins grouping WBD, Paramount streaming apps in “The Gauge” reports
As it did with Disney in January, Nielsen is now evaluating streaming platforms owned by WBD and Paramount as a single unit in its monthly “The Gauge” reports.
As it did with Disney in January, Nielsen is now evaluating streaming platforms owned by WBD and Paramount as a single unit in its monthly “The Gauge” reports.
The annual men’s college basketball tournament drew sizable audiences to CBS and TNT, with the cable TV sector benefitting the most.
YouTube leapfrogged Disney on Nielsen’s monthly Media Distributor Gauge for the second time since the measurement firm began releasing the report nearly two years ago.
The championship NFL game, the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off and cable news drove time spent with traditional TV during the month.
NFL and college football programming, plus other live events, helped lift traditional TV’s share of viewership over streaming’s lead in January.
The measurement firm attributed the change to the integration of content across Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN Plus.
Linear TV captured more than 46 percent of total TV time in December, compared with streaming’s 43 percent.
The U.S. presidential election and the World Series helped drive higher interest in television during the measurement month of November, according to Nielsen.
Broadcast and cable television channels and platforms captured the majority of time spent with TV in October.
Despite the start of the NFL season, the broadcasting versus streaming landscape barely changed in September, according to the latest report from Nielsen.
Traditional linear channels accounted for more than 48 percent of total time spent on TV, according to Nielsen’s latest “The Gauge” report.
Streaming accounted for more than 40 percent of all TV consumption for the first time since Nielsen began tracking that data.