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TV WEEKLY WARFARE: CBS Tops Demo & Viewers; ABC Rises & Fox Falls Among Adults 18-49

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 5:14pm PDTTags: ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, The Big Bang Theory

“We’re very flattered when he called us ‘smug motherfuckers’, that means we’re winning. We’ll try to be a little bit more gracious but that’s hard for me as you know,” CBS boss Les Moonves said today in response to remarks Jimmy Kimmel made on Tuesday about the network’s No. 1 ranking this season. Moonves’ comments came just hours before CBS’ Carnegie Hall Upfront presentation where there was no shortage of chest thumping on display as the CBS President and CEO and others boasted about the network winning the season this year. Well, the 2012-2013 season is almost over, but Week 33 gave Moonves’ gang a little more that they’ll have to try to be less smug about. The second full week of the May sweep saw CBS once again No.1 in both viewers and among Adults 18-49 for the week of May 6 to May 12 with 9.349 million watching and a 2.0/6 and 2.6 million in the demo. That’s up from the 1.9/6 the network was tied with Fox in the key demo for the previous frame and a rise from the 9.218 million that were watching during the week of April 29 to May 5. Like the previous week, The Big Bang Theory was the top show in the demo with a 4.9. The May 6 airing of NBC’s The Voice was in second place with a 4.1. In terms of viewership, CBS had the top four shows of the frame with NCIS (17.558 million), BBT (16.304 million), NCIS: LA (13.176 million) and Person Of Interest (13.162 million). ABC’s Dancing With The Stars was No. 5 with 13.117 million viewers.

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Among viewers DWTS may have fallen from the No. 3 spot of the previous frame but ABC itself had a strong rise up to No. 2 last week. As CBS shifted into the top spots again this season, ABC wasn’t far behind in the key demo with a 1.9/6 and 2.4 million viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. That’s up solidly from the 1.6/5 of Week 32 and the first time that the network has been second this season since the week of March 25 to March 31. As ABC moved up, The Voice-beholding NBC, which ran three airings of the competition series last week, slipped into third with a 1.8/6 and 2.3 million in the demo. That result was almost the same as the frame before. Fox, on the other hand, took a fall from being tied for first place among adults 18-49 in Week 32 to fourth place with a 1.7/5 and 2.2 million among the 18-49s in Week 33. Read More »

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Jay Leno Slams “Cheap” CBS, Calls Out Les Moonves During Craig Ferguson Chat: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 8, 2013 @ 11:37pm PDTTags: Jay Leno, Les Moonves, NBC, The Tonight Show

Jay Leno had some choice words for rival CBS and its brass during his interview Wednesday with Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson – who was making his second appearance on The Tonight Show in less than two months. When the conversation swung to a recent incident when fellow late-nighter Ferguson’s studio got soaked by a faulty air conditioner unit, Leno took some jabs at the Eye network and singled out Les Moonves. Watch the clip below:

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TV Weekly Warfare: CBS Ties Fox In Demo, Wins Viewers As ‘NCIS’ & ‘Big Bang Theory’ Top Show Rankings

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday May 7, 2013 @ 5:19pm PDTTags: ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, TV Ratings

The first full week of the May sweep saw Fox’s supremacy at the top of the weekly network demographic heap come to an end. After two weeks in second place, CBS moved up to tie the News Corp-owned broadcaster in adults 18-49. For Week 32 of the 2012-13 TV season, both Fox and CBS received a 1.9/6 in the key demo, according to Nielsen. That’s even with the last two weeks for Fox, and a lift up from the previous frame’s 1.7/5 for CBS. It’s actually kind of a win and a half for CBS for the April 29-May 5 frame as it took the No. 1 viewership spot for a ninth week in a row with 9.128 million watching. Pushing NBC’s The Voice into second place, CBS also had the top show last week in the demo with May 2’s The Big Bang Theory (4.9). April 29 and April 30’s The Voice came in second and third with 4.3 and 3.9, respectively, in the demo. After moving The Voice out of the top viewership spot the previous week, another new NCIS easily held on for another week with 18.289 million viewers for its April 30 broadcast. In fact, besides ABC’s April 29 Dancing With The Stars taking third place among viewers for the frame, CBS had the top five most-watched shows in Week 32.

CBS boss Les Moonves told CNBC last week that the network was feeling “pretty cocky” about their ratings and viewership results this season. That’s understandable: As I pointed out a few weeks back, it seems pretty certain that CBS will see yet another viewership win this year and that it will also end Fox’s almost decade-long hold on the demo title. With just a couple of weeks left in the season, CBS will win 18-49 for the first time since George H. W. Bush was President — the 1991-1992 season. With the Winter Olympics on the network that year, CBS finished with a 7.8 in the demo, with ABC close behind with a 7.7. As the loquacious Moonves and others at CBS will undoubtedly brag about during the upfronts next week, this season will see CBS become the first network to simultaneously top viewership and the key demo since Fox held the twin prize back in 2007-2008, the year of the writers’ strike. It should also be noted that the duel win five years ago for Fox was during a season when American Idol was a ratings Goliath and the network had both Super Bowl XLII and NFC Championship Game. Along with its robust dramas and slam-dunkers like BBT, CBS had the AFC Championship Game and Super Bowl XLVIII this season. Before anyone uses the word “streak,” let’s not forget Fox has the Super Bowl in February 2014, with NBC broadcasting the big game in 2015 before CBS gets it again in 2016.

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TV Weekly Warfare: ‘The Voice’ Dethroned, Fox & CBS Hold Demo And Viewer Leads

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 3:52pm PDTTags: ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, TV Ratings

The May sweep has begun, and this was the week that scripted struck back. After NBC‘s The Voice took the top spots in both total viewers and adults 18-49 during the week of April 15-21, it seemed the show might be poised to lead a reality a win streak, joined by fellow unscripted shows Dancing With The Stars and American Idol, which filled out the rest of the Top 5 most-watched of the week. Idol also came in third overall in the demo. Well, it was a very short streak: Original dramas and sitcoms swung their weight around in Week 31 of the 2012-2013 season.

The Voice’s April 22 broadcast held onto its No. 1 spot in the demo for the week of April 22-28 with a 4.9/14, but CBS’ The Big Bang Theory on April 25 took second place with a 4.5/15 to push the second Voice of the week to third. Among total viewers, let’s just say reality was schooled by the broadcast nets as a new NCIS on April 23 took the top spot with 17.332 million viewers, Big Bang Theory was second with 15.050 million and NCIS: LA took third with 14.216 million to beat the Monday airing of The Voice (14.152 million). ABC’s DWTS came in fifth with 13.765 million. April 24’s American Idol was eighth with 12.457 million watching. Long story short, it was repeats that gave Voice such dominance in Week 30. In Week 31, the CBS boys were back in town. It will be interesting to watch this week to see whether the first of NBC’s two weeks of five hours of The Voice pays off, or if Week 30 was really just a one-time treat.

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Fox Tops April Cable News Ratings While CNN Posts Big Gains

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 11:34am PDTTags: CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, TV Ratings

Fox News Channel finished in first place in April’s cable news ratings, but 2013 still looks a lot better to CNN than April 2012. A year ago, CNN was in third place with its lowest-rated month in total day in more than a decade and its worst primetime in almost two years. This month, fueled by extended coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the Texas fertilizer warehouse explosion, CNN saw double-digit viewership growth and triple-digit upward turns in the key adults 25-54 demographic. As a result, the Jeff Zucker-run network moved up to second place ahead of MSNBC in viewership and the demo for the first time in a year, posting its best results since the November 2012 elections. CNN’s sister network HLN actually slipped ahead of MSNBC in the demo too for Total Day with 142,000 viewers. Here’s the big three rankings:

TOTAL DAY — APRIL 2013 VS. APRIL 2012
FNC: 1,233M total viewers – Up 14% (278,000 in 25-54 – Up 2%)
CNN: 638,000 total viewers – Up 79% (228,000 in 25-54 – Up 111%)
MSNBC: 406,000 total viewers – Down 4% (139,000 in 25-54 – Up 1%)

PRIMETIME – APRIL 2013 VS. APRIL 2012
FNC: 2.016M total viewers – Up 9% (389,000 in 25-54 – Down 2%)
CNN: 918,000 total viewers – Up 81% (338,000 in 25-54 – Up 127%)
MSNBC: 682,000 total viewers – Down 10% (234,000 in 25-54 – Down 1%)

Having beat usual top dog USA Network and top all of cable for the week of April 15-21, Fox News finished second in primetime for the month. The News Corp-owned network last reached that spot in March 2011 during the Japan earthquake and tsunami. CNN was No. 17 in the total cable ranking, with MSNBC No. 27. Read More »

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Fox News Tops All Cable For 1st Time Since 2005

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 8:37am PDTTags: CNN, Fox News Channel, TV Ratings, USA Network

Fox News Channel’s coverage of the bombing at the Boston Marathon last week propelled the network to the top of the cable rankings for the first time in nearly a decade. In both total day and primetime for the week of April 15-April 21, the News Corp-owned news network pulled ahead of usually top-ranked USA Network. Excluding election coverage last year, the last time Fox News was in the top position was August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. In primetime, FNC garnered 2.874 million viewers on average for the week compared with No. 2 USA’s 2.621 million. CNN also climbed the cable ladder to finish No. 3 with 1.985 million viewers overall on average. History Channel was in fourth with 1.937 million viewers and A&E was fifth with 1.928 million.

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‘Gangnam Style’ Hits Record 1 Billion Views On YouTube

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday December 21, 2012 @ 4:08pm PSTTags: Gangnam Style, YouTube

Yes that’s billion with a B. South Korean K-pop performer Psy has become a global phenom in the five months since his infectious dance video was released on YouTube. Today the 34-year-old made online video history when “Gangnam Style” hit a record-breaking 1 billion views on Google’s video service. BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield predicted in a report in October that the viral video had “profound long-term implications for the traditional media ecosystem”, presenting “tremendous opportunity” for advertisers and, by extension, for content creators — on YouTube. Several assessments and projections have claimed “Gangnam Style” generated over $8.1 million in advertising deals, according to YouTube. Since late last month, the track has gotten more than 600,000 clicks on iTunes, helping make Psy the first Korean artist to rank No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes chart and No. 1 in over 30 additional countries. If you’re wondering, Justin Bieber’s “Baby” previously held the most-watched video title.

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Deadline’s YouTube Channel Rankings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday December 21, 2012 @ 6:49pm ESTTags: Google, YouTube, YouTube Channel Rank

Fuse was lit with a collection of interviews and performances from the 12-12-12 concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. Madison Square Garden’s channel gained 2.9M views for a total of 5.2M, and jumped seven spots to No. 4 in our tally of Google-funded YouTube services for the week that ended December 19. The big mover on the rank chart was Hungry, whose holiday recipe videos enabled it to jump 33 spots to No. 57, even though it only gained 197,775 views for a total of 257,385. The channels on our list saw a 4.1% increase in views over the previous week, with the top 10 accounting for 51.8% of the total. Making room for Fuse in the top 10, Jay Z’s Life and Times dropped seven spots to No. 15. Read More »

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‘Dark Knight’ Was YouTube’s Most-Watched Movie Trailer In 2012

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday December 20, 2012 @ 12:01am ESTTags: Movie Trailers, Trailer, Trailers, YouTube

YouTube Launches 60 New ChannelsGoogle seems to have data for virtually everything. What’s interesting about its list of the hottest trailers from this year is that a video game — Activision’s Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 — walloped anything out of Hollywood, taking the top two spots and four places out of the top 10. Sony and MGM’s James Bond film Skyfall held two spots. One TV show made the list, NBC’s Revolution. YouTube bases its rankings on how many times a clip was viewed, how long people stayed with it, and how many people found the video by searching for it instead of clicking on an ad. YouTube will discuss its findings and show the top trailers here. Now, here’s the ranking for the top trailers on YouTube in 2012: Read More »

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2012 Basic Cable Ratings: USA Tops Again, History, TBS & Lifetime Up, MTV & Nick At Nite Fall

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 3:57pm PSTTags: History, Lifetime, TBS, TV Ratings, USA Network

The year isn’t quite over, but unless there is a major last-minute shift, the top rankings of Cable 2012 look a lot like Cable 2011. USA Network is the No. 1 cable network and tops among adults 18-49 in primetime for the seventh year running according to data from Nielsen (see the full viewership and demo lists after the jump). The other top rankings pretty much stayed the same as last year with the exception of History Channel, which moved up to fourth place, and TNT, last year’s No. 4, moving to fifth. Scoring its best year ever, History hit cable record ratings late this spring with its Hatfields & McCoys miniseries.

With original series like Burn Notice, White Collar and Suits, USA held a good lead over other networks, though it didn’t have a break-out hit this year USA did decline 10% in total viewership and 13% in the 18-49 demographic compared with last year. Coverage of the Presidential election helped push Fox News Channel to a 10% gain in total viewership, a 6% rise in 18-49,  and a 1% bump in the 25-54 demo.

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Deadline’s YouTube Channel Rankings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday December 14, 2012 @ 2:35pm ESTTags: YouTube Channel Rank

Juan Manuel Marquez’s startling sixth-round knockout of Manny Pacquiao in their WBO world welterweight fight on Saturday helped SB Nation to emerge as the big winner in the universe of Google-funded YouTube channels for the week ending December 12. The sports channel’s coverage of the fourth meeting between the closely matched rivals enabled it to gain 1.7M views, for a total of 1.8M, and leap 70 spots to No. 15. The surge took place in a week when the YouTube channels we monitor rebounded. Total views were up 29% to 85.5M. The top 10 channels accounted for about 48% of the total. Noisey rejoined the group, rising one slot to No. 10, while Clevver News dropped three places to No. 12. Read More »

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Golden Globes TV: ‘Homeland’ Tops; ‘Girls’, ‘Newsroom’, ‘Smash’, ‘Nashville’ & ‘Political Animals’ Make Entrance; ‘Mad Men’ Snubbed

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 8:35am PSTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Game Change, Golden Globes, HBO, Homeland
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Once again, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was far more receptive to new series than the Screen Actors Guild, with a slew of freshmen, including HBO’s Girls, The Newsroom and Veep, NBC’s Smash, ABC’s Nashville, Showtime’s House Of Lies, USA’s Political Animals and Starz’s Magic City landing Golden Globe Award nominations this morning.

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And once again, pay cable dominated, with HBO (17 nominations) and Showtime (7) finishing as No. 1-No. 2 in the network rankings for a second consecutive year. The two networks also landed the most series noms, 7 each. Showtime’s Homeland was the most nominated series with four noms: for best series, best actor (Damian Lewis), actress (Claire Danes) and a welcome surprise, a first major awards nomination for co-star Mandy Patinkin in the supporting category. (HBO movie Game Change was the most nominated program overall with 5 noms.)

Both top series categories were fluid, with only two returning nominees in both. On the drama side, those were the best drama series winners from the past two years — Showtime’s Homeland and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire — joined by Breaking Bad, landing its long-overdue first best series nomination; PBS’ Downton Abbey, which made a successful transition from the movie/miniseries category, which it won in January, to series; and HBO’s The Newsroom. For Aaron Sorkin’s cable news drama, which also got a nom for star Jeff Daniels, this is the biggest awards recognition so far after landing a nom for Daniels at the SAG Awards. The biggest surprise in the category was the omission of AMC’s Mad Men, which failed to make the best drama category for the first time (it won in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and sat out the last Golden Globes because of a large gap between seasons.) Also out was last year’s nominee Game Of Thrones. Read More »

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Deadline’s YouTube Channel Rankings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday December 7, 2012 @ 5:43pm ESTTags: YouTube Channel Rank

Soul Pancake’s video of people given a chance to open their hearts to each other paid off in our tally of Google funded YouTube channels for the week that ended on December 5. “Street Compliments” helped the channel to rise 35 slots in the ranking, to No. 16 — the biggest jump by far. Jay Z’s Life+Times also made waves with a behind-the-scenes documentary of the rapper’s concerts opening the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The channel gained 1.1M views, for a total of 2.7M — taking it up 11 spots to No. 6. The movements took place during a relatively soft week for the channels. Total views fell about 15% to 66.3M. The top 10 channels accounted for 48.8% of the total. Jay Z was the only new entry to the top 10; Noisey dropped two to No. 11. Read More »

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Deadline’s YouTube Channel Rankings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday November 30, 2012 @ 6:28pm ESTTags: YouTube Channel Rank

Life was relatively quiet in the universe of Google-funded YouTube channels during the week that began on Thanksgiving and ended on November 28. The Onion — helped by a hilarious send-up of the TED Talks — led a group of just eight channels that gained views over the previous week. Not surprisingly, Hungry was among the winners, rising 33 spots to No. 48, with a collection of videos dedicated to preparing Thanksgiving dinners and leftovers. But total views for the channels we cover fell more than 39% to 78.3M. The top 10 channels accounted for 52.5% of all views. DanceOn joined that group rising one slot to No. 10; Fuse fell three to No. 12. But Redbull views plummeted by 11.7M to 6.1M, enabling The Warner Sound to reclaim its long-held perch at the top of the charts. Read More »

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Deadline’s YouTube Channel Rankings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday November 23, 2012 @ 5:20pm ESTTags: YouTube Channel Rank

It’s fitting that THNKR stands out on our ranking of Google-funded YouTube channels in the week heading into Thanksgiving with an inspiring video about a 15-year-old engineering prodigy from Sierra Leone given a chance to visit MIT. The tale of Kelvin Doe, who built and powered a radio station with materials he found in trash cans, generated more than 2M views in the week ending November 21, propelling THNKR 62 places to No. 14 — by far the channel’s best performance since we began monitoring YouTube channels in May. Still, when it comes to mass viewing, Redbull takes the prize again helped by “The Athlete Machine,” a video of an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption powered by several extreme sports stars. The channel gained 10.3M views for a total of 17.8M. The channels we track collectively generated 129.1M views, up 34.3% vs last week — with two caveats that I’ll note in a moment — and the top 10 accounted for 54.8%. Joining that group this week were Motor Trend (+7 to No. 5), Vice (+8 to No. 6) and Fuse (+11 to No. 9). Those sliding off were Machinima Prime (-9 to No. 12), Young Hollywood (-6 to No. 13), and Awesomeness TV (-6 to No. 15). Read More »

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Deadline’s YouTube Channel Rankings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday November 16, 2012 @ 6:14pm ESTTags: YouTube Channel Rank

Fans of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, and Justin Bieber and/or Selena Gomez, made this a good week for the entertainment news providers in our list of Google-funded YouTube channels. Clevver News, ENTV (from Deadline.com-parent PMC), and Young Hollywood were all over news about the final installment of the Twilight movie series, and the young celebrities’ break-up. As a result, the channels were our three top gainers measured by views in the week ending November 14 vs the results from two weeks ago. (A technical glitch prevented us from running our tally last week.) ENTV moved up one slot to No. 4 while Clevver News jumped nine to No. 6 and Young Hollywood was  up four to No. 7. Redbull topped the chart, helped by “The Athlete Machine,” a video of an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption powered by several extreme sports stars. The top 10 channels accounted for 50.7% of the week’s 96.1M views, down 1.9% from two weeks ago. Read More »

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Deadline Advisory: YouTube Channel Rankings Skip A Week

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday November 12, 2012 @ 5:57pm ESTTags: YouTube Channel Rank

Due to some technical problems with the data-gathering process we won’t be able to run our ranking of the Google-funded YouTube channels for the week that ended November 7. Our apologies — and not to worry: Things should be fixed so we can return soon with the results for the week that ends this Wednesday.

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Deadline’s YouTube Channel Rankings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday November 2, 2012 @ 5:10pm EDTTags: YouTube Channel Rank

Machinima Prime made its first appearance at the top of our weekly ranking of the Google-funded YouTube channels as it continued to roll out new episodes of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn — the live-action series based on the upcoming “Halo 4″ combat-based video game. Microsoft spent about $10M on the web series; it began October 5 and has been gaining momentum with each weekly, 15-minute installment. The gaming channel had 10.5M views in the week ending October 31 — up from 7.2M the previous week, and from 1.4M just before Halo 4′s debut. The gain is impressive in a week when overall views among the channels we track was up just 0.7% to 97.9M, with the top 10 channels accounting for 53.5% of the total. ENTV, from Deadline.com parent PMC, returned to the group, rising six spots to No. 5, while DanceOn was up three to No. 9. Young Hollywood fell out of the top 10, but just barely, dropping one to No. 11. Clevver News was down six to No. 15. Read More »

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Deadline’s YouTube Channel Rankings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday October 29, 2012 @ 7:00pm EDTTags: YouTube Channel Rank

YouTube Launches 60 New ChannelsViews at the Google-funded YouTube channels looked a lot more normal in the seven days that ended October 24 than they did the previous week — which benefited from the outsized performance at Redbull with skydiver Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic 120,000-foot freefall. Noisey stood out after it introduced a controversial video for the tune “Fatty Boom Boom” from South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord. The video, which imagines Lady Gaga being eaten by a lion, contributed to the channel’s 4.1M views, up 2.4M vs the previous week, and helped it to jump to No. 4 in the week’s rankings, up seven. All in all, views at the channels we track fell 31.6% to 97.3M, with the top 10 channels accounting for 66.3% of the total. Joining the top 10 along with Noisey was Young Hollywood, up two spots to No. 10. ENTV, from Deadline’s parent PMC, dropped one slot to No. 11 and DanceOn fell three to No. 12.

Close watchers of our charts will notice two differences this week. 3V is changing the way it uploads its content and we’re now listing it as one channel, aggregating the counts that used to be split among five. In addition, the channel formerly called Life And Times recently became Jay Z’s Life And Times, with a much bigger following. Read More »

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