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Stranger Things tops Nielsen’s 2022 streaming charts

2022 belonged to the Upside Down as Netflix's Stranger Things occupied the top spot on Nielsen's 2022 streaming rankings.
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The ‘streaming wars’ aren’t what you think

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Netflix is still the king of streaming, despite Disney+ success

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Cord-cutting has grown by 48 percent in 8 years, according to Nielsen

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The average person spends about $15 on streaming music all year

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Millennials are not the most loyal when it comes to apps, Nielsen finds

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Watching shows on Hulu and YouTube TV will now count toward Nielsen ratings

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Cord-cutting doesn’t mean divorcing your TV set, new Nielsen study says

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President Obama’s farewell address is the first bona fide social media hit of 2017

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Report: More people got their music from streaming sources than anywhere else

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Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors took over Twitter on Memorial Day weekend

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Insta-fans are better: Study shows Instagram users spend more on music

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Jessica Jones is four times more popular on Twitter than The Man in the High Castle

Netflix and Marvel's "Jessica Jones" is the hottest new show on Twitter after dwarfing its competition, Amazon's "The Man in the High Castle". 
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Game 1 of the World Series was all anyone talked about on Twitter

Game 1 of the 2015 World Series between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals accumulated 600,000 more tweets than any other show on TV last night.
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New Nielsen study on streaming points to more bad news for traditional TV

New Nielsen data suggests that broadband-only homes are on the rise, while pay-TV subscriber numbers continue to drop
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Radio still rules the roost: Most Americans disover music the old fashioned way

Neilsen reports that the majority of music listeners still find new bands through the airwaves
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Watch out major networks! Netflix is poised to dominate viewership in 2016

Analysts at FBR Capital Markets crunched numbers and say if Netflix viewership were measured via Nielsen ratings, it would surpass traditional networks
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App addiction? The average adult spends 5 hours a day playing mobile games

Nielsen says the most popular category of applications is “entertainment,” and users are spending a lot more time with these apps than ever before.
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Which TV shows were most-popular last season? Here’s what viewers tweeted

According to Nielsen Social's findings, the Super Bowl and Grammy Awards were the most tweeted TV shows during the 2014-2015 season.
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As social media becomes the new water cooler, it’s influencing TV viewing

Everyone brings their favorite TV shows to social media. Studies done by Nielsen and ShareThis have shown that the two are strongly linked to one another.
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6.9 million people thought they’d Better Call Saul, breaking cable TV records

The first episode of Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul raked in 6.9 million viewers this past Sunday, and 3.4 million on Monday.
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The latest numbers suggest Netflix and friends really are killing traditional TV

Streaming TV services are cutting into traditional TV viewership numbers in a major way.
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Radio still beats digital for music discovery

Rebirth of cool: Is vinyl ready for a second wind, or just a fad?

Vinyl sales surpass 9 million for the first time in 20 years as streaming breaks record

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Netflix CEO says broadcast TV will be dead in 16 years

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Billboard to include on-demand music streaming on Top 200 Album Chart

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Nielsen will start measuring Netflix viewership in December

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Facebook, Nielsen will soon track your TV habits on tablets, smartphones

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Nielsen report confirms what you’ve always known: 189 channels and nothing to watch

The average U.S. television-watching home has access to 189 channels, but viewers consistently stick to just 17 networks on a regular basis.
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AOL unveils a flood of new programming, announces Nielsen will rate

AOL unveils a major push in online programming, with a host of new shows about to hit the web, as well as a new partnership with Nielsen to get the numbers.
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Nielsen announces Nielsen Digital Program Ratings to measure TV viewership online

Nielsen announced Digital Program Ratings, a pilot program to measure TV viewership online.

Nielsen and SocialGuide study finds Twitter closely tied to TV ratings

A Nielsen study has found evidence that tweets do influence TV ratings, and in some instances more so than advertising.

Nielsen TV ratings will finally start to include cord cutters

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Manufacturers’ sales figures seem fishy? They probably are