viewership

noun

view·​er·​ship ˈvyü-ər-ˌship How to pronounce viewership (audio)
: a television audience especially with respect to size or makeup

Examples of viewership in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Last year’s Final Four broke viewership records, and when a new eight-year media deal was announced, in January, women’s basketball was valued at sixty-five million dollars, more than ten times its valuation in the previous deal. Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024 Courtesy of Big East Conference Every women’s college basketball fan, old and new, this year is watching Caitlin Clark, who drove record viewership numbers for the Iowa Hawkeyes, part of the Big Ten. Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024 The Oscars did top the viewership of the most recent versions of other top awards shows, which have gone through similar slumps. Andrew Dalton, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024 In previous years, viewership on the earlier coast has dropped off as the notoriously long ceremony, which regularly runs more than three hours, progressed. Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024 According to a lawsuit filed against Facebook in California federal court in 2016, viewership metrics on some videos had been artificially increased by up to 900 percent. Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024 In a country where a large percentage of streaming viewership is on mobile devices, subscription growth is being driven by carriage partnerships with telecoms providers, including India’s largest, Jio, Shergill said. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024 Despite mass viewership around the globe, not even a week after launch, Avatar: The Last Airbender has lots its #1 spot on Netflix’s Top 10 list, at least in the US, where another popular show has surged above it. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024 While other media sources can cite Luminate’s streaming viewership data, only Variety will have the right to publish charts using this data. William Earl, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of viewership was in 1952

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“Viewership.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/viewership. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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