How to Use viewership in a Sentence

viewership

noun
  • Of course, this kind of thing doesn’t seem to have hurt the series in terms of viewership.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The movie’s been out for a short while, and it’s been setting a number of Disney+ viewership records.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Fox News has made the case that the size of its viewership would be an aid to both candidates.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
  • This marks a drop in viewership of about 85.9 million hours from the week before.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 19 July 2022
  • 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
  • Season 2 already didn’t quite hit the viewership heights the show’s first season hit.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Dahmer, the drama, has been on top of Netflix’s charts for weeks with half a billion hours of viewership.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • All told, by next year, six races will run live within the U.S. time zones; a key factor in viewership numbers.
    Maury Brown, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • 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
  • And to keep growing ad revenue on the channel, Roku needs to expand its viewership.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2022
  • While these might not move the viewership needle like an NFL Sunday, there’s still action to bet on and value to be had.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 18 June 2022
  • There’s a reason why attendance and viewership as a whole has decreased over the years.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Sure, there are huge megahits which had way more viewership, but critic and audience scores this high are rare.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Though buoyed by the release of Overwatch 2 and the beginning of a new season of the Overwatch League, viewership has dwindled.
    WIRED, 13 Jan. 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
  • Such a buzzy result to cap off a WNBA season that set a slew of attendance and viewership records bodes well for the league, which now carries positive momentum into the offseason.
    Sean Gregory, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
  • To capitalize on this reach and expand the music industry’s distribution channels, record labels should look beyond the initial reach of the game and see the wide-angle viewership of the audience.
    Adam Rumanek, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024

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