The Academy Awards will be the greatest evening in Hollywood, however fewer and fewer individuals are tuning into the huge occasion.Final Sunday,
The Academy Awards will be the greatest evening in Hollywood, however fewer and fewer individuals are tuning into the huge occasion.
Final Sunday, viewership for the annual Oscars telecast plunged to a brand new low, with solely 23.6 million individuals watching to seek out out which movie took house the best picture prize, in line with Nielsen knowledge. It was a 20% drop from 2019’s ceremony. These numbers don’t embody viewers who watched the printed on a streaming platform.
The Academy Awards weren’t the one awards program to see rankings slip. The Emmys and the Grammys each noticed declines in viewership within the final 12 months. The Emmys’ rankings fell 32% to six.9 million viewers and the Grammys’ rankings slipped a extra modest 5% to 18.7 million views.
So, are individuals turning into tired of huge award ceremonies or are they simply watching them otherwise?
Some argue that the inundation of too many reside award present ceremonies has saturated the market and made top-tier award reveals just like the Grammys, Emmys and Oscars much less thrilling to viewers.
The Golden Globes, the Video Music Awards (VMAs), Billboard Music Awards, Nation Music Awards, BET Awards, Folks Alternative Awards, Critics Alternative awards, and numerous different ceremonies have all been televised in recent times. With such little curation, it would not be shocking if viewers began to really feel fatigued.
To not point out, youthful viewers, a lot of whom…