Social Content Ratings Weekly Top Ten lists for Series and Specials and Sports Events are ranked by the total number of social TV interactions across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Click the arrow next to any program to see metrics for each social platform.
Interactions
Original social media posts related to a linear TV episode and the engagement with that content.
| RANK | NETWORK / PROGRAM / DATE | INTERACTIONS (000) |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
NBC 70th Primetime Emmy Awards
9/17/18
|
5,132
|
213 | 1,948 | 2,971 | |
| 2 |
USA Network WWE Monday Night RAW
9/17/18
|
1,800
|
185 | 1,361 | 254 | |
| 3 |
NBC America's Got Talent
9/19/18
|
1,185
|
229 | 703 | 253 | |
| 4 |
USA Network WWE SmackDown!
9/18/18
|
1,136
|
86 | 793 | 256 | |
| 5 |
NBC America's Got Talent
9/18/18
|
978
|
162 | 628 | 189 | |
| 6 |
NBC The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
9/19/18
|
763
|
74 | 644 | 45 | |
| 7 |
FX American Horror Story: Apocalypse
9/19/18
|
559
|
0 | 365 | 194 | |
| 8 |
MTV Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'n Out
9/21/18
|
394
|
1 | 376 | 17 | |
| 9 |
NBC The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
9/18/18
|
361
|
17 | 36 | 309 | |
| 10 |
Univision Nuestra Belleza Latina
9/23/18
|
264
|
21 | 241 | 2 | |
| RANK | NETWORK / PROGRAM / DATE | INTERACTIONS (000) |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
NFL Network New York Jets at Cleveland Browns NFL Football
9/20/18
|
4,523
|
171 | 2,127 | 2,225 | |
| 2 |
ESPN Deportes, ESPN2* Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears NFL Football
9/17/18
|
2,603
|
158 | 1,821 | 624 | |
| 3 |
Golf Channel, NBC* Final Round 2018 TOUR Championship
9/23/18
|
1,846
|
298 | 758 | 791 | |
| 4 |
FOX Dallas Cowboys at Seattle Seahawks NFL Football
9/23/18
|
1,371
|
122 | 812 | 437 | |
| 5 |
FOX New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons NFL Football
9/23/18
|
1,363
|
139 | 749 | 476 | |
| 6 |
NBC New England Patriots at Detroit Lions NFL Football
9/23/18
|
1,341
|
82 | 526 | 733 | |
| 7 |
FOX New York Giants at Houston Texans NFL Football
9/23/18
|
1,148
|
81 | 773 | 294 | |
| 8 |
FOX San Francisco 49ers at Kansas City Chiefs NFL Football
9/23/18
|
1,125
|
136 | 493 | 496 | |
| 9 |
CBS Oakland Raiders at Miami Dolphins NFL Football
9/23/18
|
1,061
|
84 | 684 | 293 | |
| 10 |
CBS Buffalo Bills at Minnesota Vikings NFL Football
9/23/18
|
1,025
|
78 | 442 | 504 | |
Source: Nielsen. Interactions are a measure of total relevant U.S. social media activity grossed across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter from three hours before through three hours after broadcast, local time. Sports Events, Series, and Specials include those on Broadcast and National Cable with metrics available across social platforms. Sports Events are across all day parts. Series and Specials include new/live primetime and late fringe programming only. For multicast events, networks are listed alphabetically and metrics reflect the highest volume of interactions across all airing networks, denoted with an asterisk. Owned activity for Facebook includes comments, shares, and likes. Owned activity for Instagram includes comments and likes. Twitter activity includes owned and organic program-related Tweets and the corresponding Retweets, quotes, replies, and likes.
