NEW YORK – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl drew a total audience of 96.4 million viewers.
According to a CBS report released Tuesday, the total audience included record digital numbers for a game that lost its competitive advantage at the break (Tampa Bay won 31-9) and was marked by low turnout at both teams’ stadiums due to the pandemic. .
However, the most watched Super Bowl was in 2015. The New England-Seattle game attracted 114.4 million spectators.
CBS also reported that Sunday was the most watched live game in the NFL, averaging 5.7 million viewers per minute, 65% more than last year’s Super Bowl. It was also the first NFL game to offer more than a billion minutes of streaming in total.
Kansas City led all measured markets with a rating of 59.9, an 8% increase over last year’s Super Bowl rating. Boston Market, led by Tampa Bay and former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, was second with 57. Tampa was third with 52.3
The total audience met all platforms, including CBS television network, CBS Sports, along with NFL digital properties, mobile properties of buccaneers and Verizon Media bosses, along with ESPN television and digital properties.