With the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day this week, we look at the love of the game and love in general.
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Host with the most
Arizona is hosting the Super Bowl for the fourth time, three of them coming after 2008. But the Super Bowl has given the most love to Miami. It has hosted 11 times and New Orleans has hosted 10.
Love watching
Of the 32 most-watched broadcasts in U.S. television history, 30 are Super Bowls.
The total viewership of the 2021 game declined nearly 10 million viewers from the previous year. The amount of people streaming the game has increased from 3.4 million in 2020 to 5.7 million in 2021.
Super Bowl XLI was watched by 99.18 million viewers in the U.S. The most-watched Super Bowl in history is Super Bowl XLIX, Patriots-Seahawks in 2015.
Ratings dominance
How much do people love watching football on TV? In 2022, Variety’s annual list of the year’s 100 most-watched prime-time telecasts found 8 of the Top 10 prime-time shows were NFL games and 22 of the Top 25 shows were NFL games. The NBA Finals Game 6 was the next highest sport to get ratings. It was ranked 28th.
Loving those ads
Fox reportedly set its asking price for Super Bowl ads at $7 million for a 30-second window during the game. It marks a steep increase from the cost of running a commercial in previous years. $7 million for 30 seconds is about $233,333 per second.Super Bowl ad costs by year:
2023: $7 million
2022: $6.5 million
2021: $5.6 million
2020: $5.6 million
2019: $5.2 million
Who loves football?
Colormatics, an advertising company, compiled the following demographics of football fans:
Male 59%
Female 41%
Ages 18-49 years old: 70%
College educated: 68%
Household income over $75,000/year: 54%
Football fans are older than any other sports fanbase. More than half (55%) of all NFL fans are over the age of 35.
Football fans have the highest income of all sports fan demographics, with over 70% earning more than $75,000…
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