Category: TV ratings

AEW Collision, Jul 19 on TNT: 348,000 viewers; 0.06 P18-49 rating | TV ratings analysis

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TV RATINGS

AEW Collision on TNT
Sat, Jul. 19, 2025: 8:00 to 10:00 pm
348,000 viewers (P2+)
P18-49 rating: 0.06

Confirmed by Wrestlenomics.

We don’t have ranking information for Collision. Programming Insider should have it later. UFC PPV Prelims on ESPN led on cable in P18-49 with 0.39 P18-49 rating and 977,000 viewers.

Lowest P18-49 for Collision in its normal time slot and network since Mar. 1, 2025.

P2+ comparisons:

  • This episode vs. last week (Preemption: 323,000): +8%
  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (368,000): -5%
  • Current 2025-Q3 P2+ average (329,000) vs. 2024-Q3 (371,000): -11%
  • Current Jul 2025 P2+ average (329,000) vs. Jul 2024 (380,000): -14%

P18-49 comparisons:

  • This episode vs. last week (Preemption: 0.06): +0%
  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (0.10): -40%
  • Current 2025-Q3 P18-49 average (0.08) vs. 2024-Q3 (0.12): -33%
  • Current Jul 2025 P18-49 average (0.08) vs. Jul 2024 (0.12): -33%

Viewer counts for this week’s episode with the difference versus the median of the last 4 non-preemption episodes in parentheses. Some viewer counts may be based on the national rating for that demo:

  • P2+: 348k (-7%)
  • P18-49: 76k (-37%)
  • F18-49: 18k (-62%)
  • M18-49: 58k (-27%)
  • P18-34: 20k (-60%)
  • F18-34: 6k (-71%)
  • M18-34: 14k (-45%)
  • P35-49: 56k (-28%)
  • F35-49: 12k (-51%)
  • M35-49: 44k (-17%)
  • Non-P18-49: 272k (+2%)

Data Subscribers have access to the Wrestlenomics Viewership Spreadsheet.

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LIVE EVENTS

Thursday, July 17, 2025
Chicago, Illinois at Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom

No live event data available.

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YOUTUBE

Videos tracked since 11 PM Sat Jul 19 2025 as of 5 PM Tue Jul 22 2025 U.S. Eastern Time.

RECEPTION

As of 5:15 pm, Jul 22

Event rating:

  • Cagematch.net voter rating: 7.12 (66 votes)
  • This episode vs. last week (7.4): -4%
  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (7.32): -3%
  • Current 2025-Q3 average (7.45) vs. 2024-Q3 (6.75): +10%

Match ratings:

  • 7.57 (80 votes) – Bandido, JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & Mike Bailey) & Mascara Dorada vs. The Don Callis Family (Hechicero, Josh Alexander, Lance Archer & Rocky Romero)
  • 7.24 (98 votes) – Katsuyori Shibata vs. Rush
  • 6.59 (80 votes) – Ricochet vs. AR Fox
  • 6.28 (79 votes) – Tay Melo vs. Megan Bayne
  • 6.03 (71 votes) – The Gunns (Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn) vs. Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) vs. Big Bill & Bryan Keith vs. CRU (Action Andretti & Lio Rush)
  • Ineligible (<5 mins) – Taya Valkyrie vs. Alex Windsor
  • Ineligible (<5 mins) – Max Caster vs. Kyle O’Reilly

This report was produced with the assistance of programming scripts created and maintained by me.

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Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He operates and owns Wrestlenomics.

WWE Raw, Jul 14 on Netflix: 2,700,000 global views | TV ratings analysis

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TV RATINGS

WWE Raw on Netflix
Mon, Jul. 14, 2025
2,700,000 global views through 7 days

Data from Netflix.

Raw ranked #5 for the week globally among English language Netflix TV shows. Raw ranked #5 in the U.S.

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LIVE EVENTS

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WWE Smackdown, Jul 18 on USA Network: 1,546,000 viewers; 0.45 P18-49 rating | TV ratings analysis

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TV RATINGS

WWE Smackdown on USA Network
Fri, Jul. 18, 2025: 8:00 to 10:00 pm
1,546,000 viewers (P2+)
P18-49 rating: 0.45

Highest total viewership and P18-49 for Smackdown since April 25.

Reported earlier by Programming Insider.

Smackdown was #1 for the night across both cable and broadcast in P18-49. The WNBA 3-Point and Skills Challenge on ESPN was #2 with a 0.31 P18-49 rating.

P2+ comparisons:

  • This episode vs. last week (1,399,000): +11%
  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (1,385,000): +12%
  • Current 2025-Q3 P2+ average (1,370,000) vs. 2024-Q3 (2,026,000): -32%
  • Current Jul 2025 P2+ average (1,370,000) vs. Jul 2024 (2,246,000): -39%

P18-49 comparisons:

  • This episode vs. last week (0.37): +22%
  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (0.37): +22%
  • Current 2025-Q3 P18-49 average (0.38) vs. 2024-Q3 (0.57): -33%
  • Current Jul 2025 P18-49 average (0.38) vs. Jul 2024 (0.63): -40%

Viewer counts for this week’s episode with the difference versus the median of the last 4 non-preemption episodes in parentheses. Some viewer counts may be based on the national rating for that demo:

  • P2+: 1546k (+9%)
  • P18-49: 603k (+20%)
  • F18-49: 220k (+24%)
  • M18-49: 377k (+12%)
  • Non-P18-49: 943k (+5%)

Data Subscribers have access to the Wrestlenomics Viewership Spreadsheet.

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LIVE EVENTS

Data from WrestleTix

Friday, July 18, 2025
San Antonio, TX at Frost Bank Center
Estimated tickets distributed: 15,029

Market-to-market comparisons (San Antonio, TX):

  • 2022-03-16 (Wed) – AEW Dynamite: 6,775 (+122%)
  • 2022-07-11 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 7,958 (+89%)
  • 2022-12-21 (Wed) – AEW Dynamite: 5,317 (+183%)
  • 2023-01-28 (Sat) – WWE Royal Rumble: 47,585 (-68%)
  • 2023-10-20 (Fri) – WWE Smackdown: 14,149 (+6%) ← SAME EVENT TYPE
  • 2023-12-23 (Sat) – AEW Collision: 4,874 (+208%)
  • 2024-03-04 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 13,748 (+9%)
  • 2025-01-25 (Sat) – WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event: 15,575 (-4%)

Year-over-year comparison for this event type:
Current 2025-Q3 WWE Smackdown average: (12,674) vs. 2024-Q3 (11,982): +6%

YOUTUBE

Videos tracked since 9 PM Fri Jul 18 2025 as of 7 PM Mon Jul 21 2025 U.S. Eastern Time.

RECEPTION

As of 7:02 pm, Jul 21

Event rating:

  • Cagematch.net voter rating: 6.33 (56 votes)
  • This episode vs. last week (3.1): +104%
  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (5.21): +21%
  • Current 2025-Q3 average (4.71) vs. 2024-Q3 (6.13): -23%

Match ratings:

  • 7.80 (92 votes) – The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) vs. Fraxiom (Axiom & Nathan Frazer) vs. #DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa) vs. Andrade & Rey Fenix
  • 6.06 (68 votes) – Damian Priest vs. Carmelo Hayes
  • 5.50 (65 votes) – Raquel Rodriguez vs. Charlotte Flair
  • Ineligible (<5 mins) – Stephanie Vaquer vs. Alba Fyre

This report was produced with the assistance of programming scripts created and maintained by me.

brandon@wrestlenomics.com

Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He operates and owns Wrestlenomics.

Netflix releases viewing data for WWE PLEs, Smackdown, NXT for January to June 2025

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This article is just about the WWE data. Looking for all the Netflix data? I put all 16,000 titles in tables here: https://brandonthurston.substack.com/p/netflix-engagement-report-january

Coinciding with its second quarter earnings release on Thursday, Netflix published its biannual “What We Watched” report. It includes a spreadsheet which the streamer says “captures ~99% of all viewing in the first half of 2025” on its platform.

This means viewing data has been disclosed for many WWE programs for the first time. While Raw has made Netflix’s weekly “Tudum” global top 10 shows each week since its debut in January, other WWE content has seldom appeared in that weekly disclosure.

As the charts note, keep in mind the viewing window for this content was any time from January 1 to June 30, 2025. Most viewing of new WWE content is almost certainly happening live or within the first few days. But because the window of measurement here ends on June 30, some programs are clearly disadvantaged by not having more time to accumulate viewing. The June 30 episode of Raw, for example, Netflix reported in the Tudum weekly update, had 2.5 million global views. But at the end of the window that closed June 30 here, it only had 1.4 million views.

“Global views” here appears to be the same measurement that Netflix lists in the weekly Tudum rankings, which in Nielsen terms is most similar to the average number of households viewing the content on average across the entire duration of the program.

Remember that while Raw airs throughout the world on Netflix, all the other WWE content is not available on Netflix in the U.S., but is available on the platform throughout much of the rest of the globe. So unsurprisingly, given its wider global distribution on Netflix, Raw episodes are among the most-watched data points here.

All the new content that aired live on Netflix is listed in the bar chart below. Further below that is a table containing all of the WWE data I could find in the spreadsheet Netflix made available with more than 7,000 TV shows and more than 8,000 movies. This includes some archival titles like past PPV/PLEs.

Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He operates and owns Wrestlenomics.