How to Use viewership in a Sentence

viewership

noun
  • Sahara One used to broadcast free to air in the U.K., but ceased in 2013 due to a lack of viewership.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
  • And a lot of the viewership in theaters has been driven by this idea of FOMO.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • San Diego, which at the time had the Padres and Chargers, was not lacking for sports viewership options.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The cost of doing the Super Bowl and the advertisement and the viewership is so intense.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Bowl game viewership has shown a 53 percent bump with the Broncos.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Amazon, of course, would be banking on MrBeast’s huge reach to drive viewership to the Prime Video show.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Musk’s post added that Lemon is still welcome to use the X platform to build viewership for his new program.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Take a look at the viewership data in Netflix’s weekly Top 10 lists.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Like the Super Bowl, the acts play for free — though as viewership has risen, the slots have become more competitive.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Some good news for Peacock in Nielsen’s monthly gauge of TV and streaming viewership.
    Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Whatever the reason, the Oscars viewership rose for the third year running.
    Travis Andrews, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Though critics and many viewers panned the film, which earned a 0% from Rotten Tomatoes, viewership was still high.
    AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • If a show gets high viewership relative to the cost of producing it, it gets renewed.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And with ratings and viewership at the center of these conversations, the progress is paying off.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Awards can also boost viewership, whether at the box office or online.
    Anousha Sakouistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Has that big viewership trickled down into your life yet.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Daily Show viewership shot up to 1.85 million viewers, the biggest audience for the show in nearly six years.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But the curiosity around him made up for the lack of suspense, contributing to a 24 percent boost in viewership from last year’s draft.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
  • Since then, quality of play in the league has continued to improve, and viewership has followed.
    Emma Carmichael, ELLE, 24 Aug. 2023
  • By the summer of 1994, viewership was up, driven by college students.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Ultimately, The Last of Us remains largely faithful to the game it's based upon, and drew a huge viewership as a result.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
  • On Paramount+, Grammy Awards live viewership was its highest ever, up +173% from last year.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The league has embraced the newfound viewership, from promoting Chiefs games with Swift’s music to changing their X bio to shout out the Grammy winner.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Nearly ten million people watched the final—more than twice as many did the previous year, and nearly double the record for viewership of that game.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • That in conjunction with a lot of network pressure to kill a main character as a way to spike viewership drove the decision to kill Marissa.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • There’s an understanding that shows that are character driven are not likely to get that mass viewership that a Jack Ryan would get.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The July 23 premiere set a new Paramount+ viewership record, with 6 million total viewers.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Once a ratings magnet, the best the Oscars can hope for now are middling rating numbers, meaning producers will try all sorts of things to boost viewership.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
  • YouTube is quick to count playback as a view, too, but it’s generally understood that there needs to be at least some amount of actual viewership.
    Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2024

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