Comic Nate Bargatze helped increase the bar throughout Sunday’s 77th Emmys.
At the moment, in response to Nielsen quick nationwide knowledge, CBS introduced that the 2025 Emmys reached 7.42 million viewers for its Sunday broadcast on CBS and Paramount+. Regardless of going up in opposition to Sunday Night time Soccer, the awards ceremony reached a four-year excessive in viewership, which is the very best because the present final aired on CBS in 2021.
It was up 8% from the 2024 broadcast on ABC, which had around 6.9 million viewers.
As well as, livestreaming on Paramount+ was up 76% from the CBS-hosted Emmys in 2021. On social media, the present drove 60.9 billion “potential impressions” and 1.6 million mentions, in response to CBS. The community stated that it was up 66% from final yr.
The present’s success illustrates the affect of stay occasions as appointment viewing in an more and more fragmented TV panorama. John Halley, Paramount’s ad sales president, just lately instructed ADWEEK the ability of stay occasions was “at an all-time excessive” and noticed robust demand within the upfront.
Exhibiting the model enthusiasm, forward of the present, the Tv Academy signed up a number of company companions, together with Decoy, FIJI Water, Franciacorta, Johnnie Walker Blended Scotch Whisky, LG, PEOPLE, The Ritz-Carlton, and United Airways.
The rankings additionally proceed a sequence of stay occasion wins for CBS. Round per week in the past, the 2025 VMAs on MTV and CBS earned 5.5 million viewers, its greatest viewers since 2019.
Past the rankings, Sunday’s Emmys have been a giant evening for streamers, with Apple TV+’s The Studio breaking the report for many Emmys by a comedy in a single yr, receiving 13 awards. In the meantime, Netflix’s Adolescence gained six awards on the evening, together with Owen Cooper turning into the youngest male winner in an appearing class.
In some way, it was additionally a giant evening for jeans thanks to a Sydney Sweeney story that’s extra sturdy than any denim.
