TelevisaUnivision and Nielsen are arguing over the use of a single southeastern household that appears to be causing big skews in Spanish-TV ratings

Streaming is transforming media. Nielsen’s new ARTEY Awards recognize 2024’s most-watched streaming TV shows and movies.

The dominant ratings provider hopes to fend off competitors by pivoting to a bundle that combines its consumer panels with data from smart TV makers and other digital sources.

Fox News Channel's coverage of the inauguration of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance dominated the competition.

The Media Rating Council approves the company's use of traditional panel sampling alongside input from millions more homes.

Overall time spent watching television in December rose 4% compared with November, according to a report from Nielsen.

Panels aren’t going away, mind. Panel data will be part of Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel offering, which earned Media Rating Council accreditation last week. That product, which will be Nielsen’s endorsed currency during the upfronts this year, combines panels with data from set-top boxes and smart TVs.

Nielsen earns MRC accreditation for its Big Data + Panel measurement solution, which includes its legacy panels and bigger data sets.

Media measurement firm Nielsen has announced an end to its consumer panel-based TV ratings, a product which has served as the standard for measuring US TV ratings for decades. The product, which is used to set ad prices and allows advertisers to know whether they got what they paid for, will stop being sold in the final quarter of 2025.

Accreditation of the firm’s Big Data + Panel offering could help re-entrench the former monopoly power ahead of the upfronts.

The other two billion-minute titles were Bluey (1.17 billion on Disney+) — which ends 2024 as the most-streamed show of the year at 55.6 billion minutes — and The Equalizer series (1.05 billion on Netflix and Paramount+). Not listed below are Netflix’s two Christmas NFL games, as Nielsen doesn’t include live sports in its streaming rankings.

CNN also lost a good chunk of its audience, going from 754,000 average viewers in primetime that last full week before voting to 398,000. For key timeslots, most of the viewers have returned, but CNN’s ratings were already lower than MSNBC prior to the election.