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Update: 2025 Oscars received the largest audience that the price exhibition has seen in five years, according to the last Live-Plus day show number from Nielsen, which gives the show’s viewers to 19.69 million over ABC and Hulu.
While the first figures for the 97th annual Academy Awards first counted 18.07 million viewers – a 7% decline from last year – updated display figures from Nielsen, which includes display from digital units on mobile, computers and tablets, dedicated 1,645 million viewers, which gave this year’s total audience. The 19.69 million viewers mark an increase of 1% from last year’s ceremony, which received 19.5 million viewers.
The updated figures also gave the show’s rating in the most important broadcast demon among adults 18-49 to a 4.54-grade 19% from last year’s rating of 3.82. In the demonstration 18-34, Oscars received a rating of 3.05-up 28% from last year-ranked as the show’s largest audience in the younger demonstration in six years since the 2019 show.
Original story: 2025 Oscars brought in an impressive audience, but not as big as last year.
The 97th annual Academy Awards received 18.07 million viewers over ABC and Hulu, according to Nielsen figures. The show started broadcast at ABC at.
It is down 7% from the total viewers of 19.5 million, which was introduced by 2024 Oscars and is based on growth from year to year that sees the show. By 2023, the show received 18.8 million viewers, while the show 2022 brought 16.7 million viewers.
The Conan O’Brien-Hosted Show also delivered a rating of 3.92 in the most important broadcast demon among adults 18-49-up 3% from last year’s rating of 3.92. Oscars took the show’s highest rating in two years in the 18-49 demonstration, as well as its highest rating of five years among adults 18-34 as it received a 3.17 grade in the 18-34 demonstration.
Among both total viewers and in the 18-49 demonstration, Oscars as No. 1 is Primetime Entertainment-TeleCast for the 2024-2025 season.
On social media, Oscars logged 104.2 million total social interactions, ranked as the most social TV program this season, and exceeded social performance for Grammys, which logged 102.2 million interactions, and Super Bowl, which logged 62.4 million interactions. Noteworthy, the academy ASL livestream has made 1.4 million viewers.
As a reference, this year’s Grammys got 15.4 million viewers – down over 8% from the show 2024 – while 2025 Golden Globes brought in 10.1 million viewers.
2025 Oscars marks the second year that the ceremony began at. told Thewrap Last year would be “beneficial” given the audience’s changing lifestyle. The show was scheduled to end at 22:30 et/19: 30 PT, but as usual it went for a long time.
After “Anora” gained some momentum during the prices of the award, the Mikey Madison-led movie was the winning movie at night, with Sean Baker who won four Oscars-matching a record held by Walt Disney. In a surprise of events, the Madison Academy Award won for best actress over Frontunner Demi Moore, before “Anora” took home the prestigious best image award. The last award of the night was awarded by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal and served as one on the stage “when Harry met Sally” reunification.
As expected, Adrien Brody took home Oscar for best actors for his performance in “The Brutalist”, while Kieran Culkin took home Supporting Accover for “A Real Pain” and Zoe Saldaña took home the Academy Award for best supportive actress for “Emilia Pérez.”
The editor’s note: This post from March 3 has been updated to reflect mobile and PC ratings received the day after (Tuesday 4 March), which brought the viewers up 8.97% from what was originally foreseen the day after the 97th Academy Awards Telecast.
