NEW YORK – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers ’victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl drew a total audience of 96.4 million spectators.
According to a CBS report released Tuesday, the total audience included record digital numbers for a game that had lost its competitive advantage in halftime (Tampa Bay won 31-9) and which was marked by low attendance at the stadium of both teams due to the pandemic.
Anyway, the most watched Super Bowl was in 2015. The New England-Seattle game attracted 114.4 million viewers.
CBS also reported that Sunday was the most watched live NFL game, 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 59.9 rating, an 8% increase over its Super Bowl rating last year. Boston Market, driven by Tampa Bay and former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, was second with 57. Tampa was third with 52.3
The total audience came across all platforms, including CBS Television Network, CBS Sports, alongside NFL digital properties, Verizon Media’s Buccaneers and Chiefs mobile properties, alongside digital properties, and ESPN Sports Television.