B
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71%
71% -- streaming viewership growth for Streaming services (2025)
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71%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Nielsen
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Tier A
https://www.stateofstreaming.com/articles/streaming-tv-viewership-surpasses-cable-broadcast-2025 ↗
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Streaming TV viewership overtakes cable and broadcast for the first time: Nielsen
Streaming TV viewership overtakes cable and broadcast for the first time: Nielsen
For the first time, Americans are spending more time watching streaming services than broadcast and cable television combined, a historic tipping point for media consumption detailed in Nielsen’s May 2025 “The Gauge” r…
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Nielsen
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Growth in streaming TV usage since May 2021 per Nielsen
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Streaming services: 71% streaming viewership growth. Source: Nielsen (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/streaming-usage-growth-2021-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/streaming-usage-growth-2021-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>71%</strong> -- streaming viewership growth for Streaming services<br><small>Source: Nielsen (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/streaming-usage-growth-2021-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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