Disney verzeichnet dank Fußball und Frosty den größten Anstieg auf mehreren Plattformen
TBS und TNT legen beide um mehr als 20 % zu, dank College-Football und Weihnachtsfilmen.
Amazon +12 % und Netflix +10 % dank NFL und Eigenproduktionen
Hallmark Channel belegt im Dezember die Top 5 der Kabelfernseh-Filmplätze
NEW YORK - January 27, 2026 – Nielsen’s December 2025 Media Distributor Gauge highlights lifts for distributors airing key sports events and movies, both of which drove record-breaking viewership during the peak holiday season. Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Hallmark, Netflix and Amazon all saw notable gains for the month.
Disney captured the highest multiplatform increase and maintained the No.2 position, up 4% in overall viewing to add 0.2 share points for a total share of 10.7%. This growth was fueled by ESPN, which recorded a 30% viewership increase driven by Monday Night Football, the expanded College Football Playoffs schedule, and College Gameday. Simultaneously, Freeform successfully doubled its November viewing, driven by its robust programming of holiday films like Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer und Frosty The Snowman.
Warner Bros. Discovery also benefitted from success with its cable networks, with TBS and TNT up 23% and 24%, respectively. These gains were driven by College Football playoff coverage and holiday movie viewership, with Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte leading the way for TBS. HBO Max also saw a 10% viewing increase, primarily driven by original series It: Welcome To Derry, alongside the continued popularity of The Big Bang Theory und Freunde.
Leading the holiday movie genre’s success was The Hallmark Channel, which maintained strong momentum from November and secured the top 5 movie telecasts across cable distributors (in order): She’s Making A List, Single On The 25th, A Suite Holiday Romance, A Make Or Break Holiday und Oy To The World.
As reported in Nielsen’s The Gauge December report, Christmas Day marked the most-streamed day ever with 55.1 billion viewing minutes. The record for Christmas Day was led by NFL coverage on Netflix and Prime Video, with both platforms achieving platform-best record shares in December. Netflix’s coverage of the NFL Christmas Day doubleheader, coupled with the success from the most-streamed original series ever: Fremde Dinge, propelled Netflix into the third position with a 10% monthly viewing increase. The tandem success gave Netflix an additional 0.7 share points for a record total share of 9.0%.
Two other distributors achieved platform-best shares in December: Amazon with a 4.3% total share and The Roku Channel with a 3.0% total share. Amazon notched a 12% viewing increase in December attributable to Thursday Night Football coverage, a record-setting Christmas Day NFL game and the new season of Fallout. Notably, The Roku Channel has exhibited consistent growth, the platform is up 45% since last December and up 190% compared to December 2023.
Die Beiträge der Rundfunknetzwerk-Tochtergesellschaften gingen diesen Monat im Vergleich zum November zurück, wobei alle großen Netzwerke Einbußen verzeichneten. Dieser Rückgang ist vor allem auf weniger hochkarätige Sportberichterstattung zurückzuführen, darunter das Ausbleiben der NFL-Spiele an Thanksgiving, ein reduzierter Spielplan für College-Football im Fernsehen und das Ausbleiben der World Series-Spiele. Auch die Kabelnachrichtensender verzeichneten in diesem Monat Einbußen.
Der Zeitraum Dezember 2025 umfasste vier Wochen, vom 01.12.2025 bis zum 28.12.2025. Die Berichterstattung von Nielsen folgt dem Sendeplan, wobei die wöchentlichen Zeiträume jeweils am Montag beginnen.
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