Big Number
4M
Paramount+’s six-episode series Knuckles amassed 4 million hours of viewing over April 26-28 — a record for a Paramount+ original series, the streamer says. With a running time of 169 minutes across all six episodes, Knuckles‘ 4 million hours of viewing equates to about 1.42 million complete showings. To compare, the No. 10 series in Netflix’s internal weekly rankings has averaged about 1.5 million views over a week recently. Read more.
Snapshot
CBS’ Crown
CBS laid claim to the most-watched broadcaster in primetime for the 2023-2024 season by averaging 5.59 million viewers each night, but it is off by 6 percent in viewers year-over-year, while NBC lost 5 percent. ABC ticked up by about 4 percent — with an assist from Monday Night Football — while Fox took a hit, falling by almost 25 percent a year after having the Super Bowl and losing its most watched show, 911, to ABC. The CW slipped 16 percent. Read more.
STREAMING
Top Series
The most-viewed series of the week
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NIELSEN STREAMING CONTENT RATINGS (April 1-April 7, 2024, most recent week)
Top Movies
The most-viewed films of the week
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NIELSEN STREAMING CONTENT RATINGS (April 1-April 7, 2024, most recent week)
TOP TRENDING
This week’s most consumed, searched and shared content
SOURCE: PARROT ANALYTICS (APRIL 5 – APRIL 11, 2024)
This ranking shows the most in-demand series that have debuted in the last 365 days on major platforms with US audiences.
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BOX OFFICE
Top Movies
The highest-grossing films domestically
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Legendary / Warner Bros.
$7.2M
Weekend Gross
3,312
Theaters
$181.7M
Total Gross
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COMSCORE (April 26-28)
Upcoming Releases
Notable movies heading to theaters
May 3
May 10
‘Mufasa’ First Trailer Bows
Directed by Barry Jenkins, the music-filled movie (out Dec. 20) serves as both an origin story and follow-up to the 2019 box office hit.
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BROADCAST
Top TV
The most-viewed primetime network shows
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Tracker
CBS
7.7M
Viewers
2
FBI
CBS
7.03M
Viewers
3
Young Sheldon
CBS
6.86M
Viewers
4
60 Minutes
CBS
6.81M
Viewers
5
NCIS
CBS
6.29M
Viewers
Nielsen (April 22-28)
Inside View
The narrative behind the numbers
30 Telecasts
3.17M Viewers
NBA’s OK Playoff Start
The opening round of the NBA playoffs has served up some good-sized audiences — just not quite as big as a year ago. First-round games have averaged 3.17 million viewers across ESPN/ABC, Turner Sports and NBA TV, off slightly from 3.36 million at the same point in 2023. ABC’s April 27 broadcast of game four of the Nuggets-Lakers series posted the biggest audience at 5.67 million viewers — but the Lakers were eliminated two nights later, which could put a damper on viewership with a marquee team out of the running. The continued presence of the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference could help offset that.
DATA SPOTLIGHT
The Subscriber Race (Is Over?)
As Netflix hits nearly 270 million global subscribers the streaming giant is also marking the end of an era, telling investors that it will stop providing quarterly sub numbers in 2025. The past year has seen subscriber numbers rise swiftly, juiced by the company’s password-sharing crackdown. That effort isn’t done yet, but it is safe to say the end is in sight. Read more.
YouTube Tops in TV Use
YouTube was once again the top individual streaming service with 9.7 percent of all TV use in March — the largest for any single streamer since Nielsen began its Gauge rankings in May 2021. Netflix (8.1 percent of TV use) and Hulu (3 percent) also grew month to month. Streaming remained the biggest platform for TV users, gathering 38.5 percent of viewing for March — up from 37.7 percent a month earlier. Read more.
SOURCE: Company filings; Nielsen Gauge
RED CARPET POWER RANKINGS
Top Fashion Brands
Media Impact Value (MIV) for luxury labels throughout Awards Season
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Dior
Pictured: Jenna Ortega at the Emmys in Dior and Christian Louboutin
$59.2M
in MIV
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$52.1M
in MIV
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$50.4M
in MIV
4
$48.9M
in MIV
5
$45.2M
in MIV
Top Accessory Brands
Media Impact Value (MIV) for accessories labels throughout Awards Season
1
$16.1M
in MIV
2
$10.9M
in MIV
3
Manolo Blahnik
Pictured: Margot Robbie at the Globes in Armani Privé, Lorraine Schwartz and Manolo Blahnik
$2M
in MIV
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$1.4M
in MIV
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$1.3M
in MIV
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NEWS FEED
Cinemark Swings to First-Quarter Profit Despite Lower Revenue
Movie theater owner Cinemark Holdings reported first-quarter revenue of $572.9 million for the three months ended March 31, down 5 percent from $610.8 million in the prior year. That beat a Wall Street analysts estimate for overall revenue at $558.2 million. Overall attendance fell to 40.0 million patrons across its global footprint, down from 42.9 million customers […]
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‘The Fall Guy’ to Kick Off Summer Box Office After a Brutal Late Spring, Eyes $30M-$35M Opening
David Leitch’s action-comedy The Fall Guy isn’t the normal kind of stunt Hollywood usually relies on to herald the start of the summer box office, but these aren’t normal times. Outside of the pandemic era, that job belonged to superhero tentpoles, and specifically Marvel Studios fare (including all four Avengers movies). And Marvel returned to […]
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Box Office: Zendaya’s ‘Challengers’ Hits Target With $15M Opening for No. 1 Finish
Zendaya’s romance-tennis drama Challengers easily won the weekend box office match with a $15 million opening from 3,477 theaters, in line with expectations and marking the second-best start for an original R-rated drama since the pandemic behind Don’t Worry Darling. It was a bold move for MGM Amazon Studios to open Luca Guadagnino’s sexy adult […]
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Box Office: Zendaya’s ‘Challengers’ Starts Off With $1.9M in Previews
Challengers has finally taken to the court. Directed by Luca Guadagnino, the movie earned $1.9 million in box office previews for MGM and Amazon Studios as it prepares to open everywhere on Friday. The majority came from Thursday night shows, but there was also a special Imax sneak earlier this week. The critically acclaimed movie […]
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‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’ to Get the Big-Screen Treatment in 2025
Gabby and her cats are coming to the big screen next year. DreamWorks Animation and Universal revealed Thursday that Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie will open nationwide on Sept. 26, 2025. The live-action/CGI series has been a smash hit for Netflix since its debut in 2021. Created by Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey, Gabby’s Dollhouse […]
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John Krasinski’s ‘IF’ Tracking for Promising $40M-Plus Opening
Writer-director John Krasinski’s upcoming summer movie IF already looks like it will have plenty of friends when hitting theaters. The Paramount movie is tracking to open to $40 million-plus, or a range of $38 million to $42 million, an impressive figure for an original family film. And based on raw data, some box office pundits […]
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Imax Gets Boost From ‘Dune: Part Two’ But Revenue Tumbles
Imax continued a box office recovery on its global screens during the first quarter as Dune: Part Two has pulled in more than $143 million in global box office to date, or 21 percent of the film’s total gross, the cinema technologies company reported Thursday. Overall revenue at the giant screen technologies company came to […]
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