{"id":619547,"date":"2026-09-18T02:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619547\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:34:12","slug":"nielsens-streaming-ratings-are-getting-here-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619547\/","title":{"rendered":"Nielsen’s Streaming Ratings Are Getting Here Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor the six years Nielsen<\/a> has been releasing weekly streaming ratings<\/a>, the charts have had a significant lag time: The numbers released on a given Thursday reflected viewing from four weeks earlier. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs of this week, however, Nielsen is cutting that lag time by more than 60 percent, from 28 days to 11. The charts below are for the week of Aug. 31-Sept. 6. It\u2019s not quite real time, but it\u2019s a much more current snapshot of what people are watching on streaming services than the previous setup.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis may be the most significant enhancement to Streaming Content Ratings since its launch in 2017,\u201d said Brian Fuhrer, Nielsen\u2019s senior vp product strategy and thought leadership. \u201cAs the speed of change across the media landscape increases, providing our clients with more immediate, up-to-date audience data helps them keep pace with the consumer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the sped-up public release of streaming numbers, Nielsen is now also providing its clients with daily, rather than weekly, data on streaming series, as first reported by Vulture<\/a>. As with linear ratings for broadcast and cable shows, Nielsen won\u2019t publicly offer up daily streaming numbers. But its clients \u2014 the networks, studios and streamers \u2014 can opt to release some of those figures (presumably when they tell a good story). For instance, the Vulture piece notes, HBO\u2019s Lanterns (138 million viewing minutes) and Paramount+\u2019s Lioness (120 million) were the top two original streaming series on Monday, Sept. 14, after both debuted new episodes the day before.<\/p>\n

\n\tLanterns also makes its first appearance in the weekly charts for Aug. 31-Sept. 6, tallying 500 million minutes of watch time for that week. Prime Video\u2019s Reacher<\/a> (1.25 billion minutes) led the overall rankings and had its fourth consecutive week over 1 billion minutes. The Big Bang Theory (1.07 billion minutes) and Tyler Perry\u2019s Netflix series Beauty in Black<\/a> (1.06 billion) also got above the billion-minute threshold.<\/p>\n

\n\tNielsen also released streaming ratings for Aug. 17-23 and Aug. 24-30 on Thursday. Reacher (1.52 billion minutes) led for Aug. 17-23, and Netflix\u2019s Outer Banks (1.49 billion) climbed to No. 1 for Aug. 24-30 after the premiere of its final season. <\/p>\n

\n\tNielsen\u2019s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don\u2019t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences. The top streaming titles for Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2026, are below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the six years Nielsen has been releasing weekly streaming ratings, the charts have had a significant lag…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[23294,146,85,46,36201,85143,12290,118150,411,12293],"class_list":["post-619547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-beauty-in-black","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nielsen","tag-reacher","tag-streaming-ratings","tag-ted-lasso","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}