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Nielsen Weekly Social Ratings: Super Bowl Breaks the Roof (Again) With 70% of Top 10 Sports Interactions

We are looking at Nielsen's social content ratings of the week of January 28 to February 3 in order to get a good sense of which social platforms are the best tool for viewers to engage with their favorite programming.

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We are looking at Nielsen’s social content ratings of the week of January 28 to February 3 in order to get a good sense of which social platforms are the best tool for viewers to engage with their favorite programming.

 

This week, the Super Bowl got everyone talking on Social Media, or that seems to be the case if we look at Nielsen’s Social Ratings from January 28 to February 3. As we saw in the previous analysis of Nielsen’s rankings, Instagram is the clear winner of TV-programming-related social media; just as the last time, more than half (59%) of the interactions and engagements with the top 30 TV specials or talents were posted on Instagram, while Twitter received 22 million and Facebook was last with 3.1 million. Overall, this period of time saw an increase of about 22 million posts on social media, mostly due to the Super Bowl. Here we extract a few insights from Nielsen’s data in order to get a good sense of which broadcasters and programs generate more engagement, and will try to find out whether there is a relationship between topics and social media.

 

WEEKLY TOP TEN SERIES AND SPECIALS

RANKNETWORK / PROGRAM / DATEINTERACTIONS
(000)
FacebookInstagramTwitter
1CBS

NFL Honors

2/02/19

2,958982,501359
2USA Network

WWE SmackDown!

1/29/19

2,3351411,783411
3USA Network

WWE Monday Night RAW

1/28/19

2,1761211,681374
4ABC

Grey’s Anatomy

1/31/19

1,350541,19997
5NBC

America’s Got Talent

1/28/19

1,278206846226
6The CW

Riverdale

1/30/19

9933775215
7NBC

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

1/31/19

66111443206
8NBC

The Titan Games

1/31/19

644961124
9Univision

Mira quien baila All Stars

2/03/19

630505764
10The CW

Supernatural

1/31/19

46534120311

[Source: Nielsen]

 

Key Insights

  • Out of the total of interactions on the top ten spots, 21.7% (13.4 million posts) were related to a TV episode or special.
  • Facebook had 727,000 interactions, almost 300,000 more than the week of January 14-20.
  • Twitter, received 2.2 million interactions with TV episodes or specials.
  • However, none of those two could match Instagram, which got 10.5 million posts, about 78% of the top 10 posts in this category.
  • Instagram won by a landslide on almost all the events, except for Supernatural, which got more interactions on Twitter.
  • Interestingly, one of the shows in the top 10 was Mira quien baila All Stars, a Latino-oriented TV program.

 

WEEKLY TOP TEN SPORTS EVENTS

RANKNETWORK / PROGRAM / DATEINTERACTIONS
(000)
FacebookInstagramTwitter
1CBS*, ESPN Deportes
New England Patriots vs. Los Angeles Rams Super Bowl LIII
2/03/19
32,2881,79112,97817,520
2ABC
Los Angeles Lakers at Golden State Warriors
NBA Basketball
2/02/19
2,924972,388439
3TNT
Philadelphia 76ers at Golden State Warriors
NBA Basketball
1/31/19
1,720591,433228
4ABC
Oklahoma City Thunder at Boston Celtics
NBA Basketball
2/03/19
1,632401,405186
5NBA TV
Golden State Warriors at Indiana Pacers
NBA Basketball
1/28/19
1,539661,277196
6ESPN
Boston Celtics at New York Knicks

NBA Basketball
2/01/19

1,425511,142232
7TNT
Philadelphia 76ers at Los Angeles Lakers
NBA Basketball
1/29/19
1,401261,079296
8ESPN
Houston Rockets at Denver Nuggets
NBA Basketball
2/01/19
1,226421,033151
9TNT
Milwaukee Bucks at Toronto Raptors
NBA Basketball
1/31/19
70837504167
10ESPN
St. John’s at Duke
College Basketball
2/02/19
5552143698

[Source: Nielsen]

Key Insights

  • Over 45.4 million interactions, or 73% of the total of the three top ten rankings provided by Nielsen related to TV episodes or special events, were about sports.
  • From these, 2.2 million (4.8%) interactions were posted on Facebook.
  • Twitter received 19.5 million related to sports events, or (42%).
  • About 51%(23.6 million) posts were made on Instagram, making it the winning platform in the sports category, though not by far.
  • The LIII Super Bowl took the first spot, receiving 70% of the interactions with the top 10 sports and 52% of all the top interactions and engagements overall.
  • The remaining 30of posts were related to basketball events; spots 2 to 9 were NBA matches, and spot 10 was a College Basketball match.
  • Instagram was the top platform for NBA fans, but Twitter is still the winner for NFL.

 

WEEKLY TOP TEN TV TALENT

RANKNETWORK / TALENT / PROGRAMENGAGEMENTS
(000)
FacebookInstagramTwitter
1NBC
Terry Crews
America’s Got Talent
62724498105
2NBC
Dwayne Johnson
The Titan Games
589657013
3Univision
Angelique Boyer
Amar a muerte
395133820.2
4Univision
Sebastian Yatra
Mira quien baila All Stars
22352171
5CBS*, ESPN Deportes
Maroon 5
Super Bowl LIII
212960116
6NBC
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen’s Game of Games
188415529
7Syfy
Lana Condor
Deadly Class
17201648
8The CW
Danielle Panabaker
The Flash
153313218
9ABC
Caterina Scorsone Grey’s Anatomy
10301003
10NBC
Howie Mandel America’s Got Talent
101171866

[Source: Nielsen]

Key Insights

  • According to Nielsen’s data, 2.7 million viewers engaged with the top ten posts sent directly from social media accounts owned or affiliated with TV programming.
  • For the top 10 spots, Facebook received 168,000 engagements, Twitter got 359,000, and Instagram came out on top with 2.2 million.
  • The relationship between top series and top TV talents is rather close, especially in the case of America’s Got Talent’s Terry Crews. Even though Ellen’s Game of Games is on the 10th spot of the former list, she was the second most popular TV talent of the week.
  • Two Latino stars are present in this ranking: Angelique Boyer and Sebastian Yatra.

 

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