Super Bowl LVIII is Most-Watched Telecast in History

LAS VEGAS — 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 Total Audience Delivery of 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. Final Nielsen data will be available tomorrow.

Patrick Mahomes leads the Kansas City Chiefs to secure their second consecutive Super Bowl victory against the San Francisco 49ers in overtime. Tom Brady, please be advised of the eminent competition

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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Author: West Lamy

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