NEW YORK – February 18, 2025 – The NFL’s Super Bowl LIX, broadcast on FOX, FOX Deportes and Telemundo and streamed on Tubi and NFL digital properties, continues to set new marks. According to Nielsen’s new Big Data + Panel “Reach” methodology, Super Bowl LIX reached a record 188.4 million unique viewers who watched the game for at least 1 minute*. As previously announced, Super Bowl LIX also averaged a record high 127.7 million viewers on February 9, using the Average Minute Audience Metric across the entirety of the game, using Nielsen’s Panel only metric.
Following Nielsen’s Out-of-Home expansion, announced earlier this month, and the increased adoption of Big Data + Panel, the company’s updated reach metric replaced the previously used “Total Audience” metric. Historical reach of the Super Bowl has been reported using Nielsen Total Audience Metric (TA). Nielsen retired TA in January 2025 in favor of Big Data + Panel Reach, which more precisely measures Out-of-Home viewing. Super Bowl LIX’s reach of 182.8 million viewers, surpassing the comparable reach of 182.2 million viewers by Super Bowl LVIII last year, makes this the highest reported reach in Super Bowl history.
Source: Nielsen Big Data + Panel Reach with Out-of-Home (P2+).
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