September 3, 2024
Welcome to the September 2024 edition of the TVision Signal Report. At the end of every month we take a deeper dive into the viewer and content trends shaping the future of the CTV landscape, in addition to providing our weekly TVision Power Score. In this month's report we reveal the programs and apps that are drawing in audiences and keeping them engaged.
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Before we break down the monthly data, here are the shows that topped the TVision Power Score list between August 26 and September 1, 2024 thanks to their ability to both attract viewers and hold their attention throughout the show.
Episode one of season four of Hulu's hit show "Only Murders in the Building" premiered in the top spot of the Power Score for the week ending September 1, 2024. As often happens with hit programs, the premiere of the new season drove increased audience engagement with earlier seasons. Both seasons one and three of the Steve Martin and Martin Short mega-hit also landed in the Power Score top 20 last week.
Want to know which movies are best engaging viewers across all apps? Here are the movies that topped the Power Score list in August 2024.
Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg star in "The Union" on Netflix, which was the top show on the TVision Power Score for Movies in August 2024. The film just beat out other star-powered movies "Jackpot" on Amazon Prime with John Cena and "The Instigators," starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck on AppleTV.
More viewers watched a mix of broadcast and CTV in August 2024 than in July.
Note, Platform Reach indicates TV services households have viewed at least once within the specified time period.
The top five apps for Household Reach have been the same each month of 2024, except for last month (July) when OEM Fast Apps (such as the Roku Channel) overtook Max. But in August Max returned to the fifth spot, following Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and Amazon Prime.
Here we take a look at the type of content viewers watched in August 2024. Viewers watched new content, defined as content released within the month, 19% of the time. That's up considerably from the month of July (15%).
83% | 17% |
Shows | Movies |
86% | 14% |
Binge Release | Weekly Release |
59% | 41% |
Original | Syndicated |
19% | 80% |
New Shows | Older Shows |
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TVision measures Viewer Presence and Attention for every second of programming and advertising on television. Every time a person walks into the room, our technology detects who the viewer is, where they are in the room, and what their eyes are looking at. We do all this without personally identifying individual users, and without transmitting any images or videos. TVision’s data is collected from an opt-in panel of 5,000 homes across the United States and weighted to represent the country. All demographic data is self-reported by the respondents. Linear and CTV ad impressions data in this report is from May 1 – May 31, 2023 or May 29 – June 4, 2023, unless otherwise indicated.
The TVision Power Score is a completely new ranking designed to factor in both viewership and engagement when measuring the performance of CTV programming. The Power Score is based on the industry’s most comprehensive view of the CTV landscape - TVision measures activity across over 1,000 apps - and enables an accurate understanding of the relative performance of CTV content across any app. This new way to understand show performance will enable industry watchers to more quickly identify trending content and CTV’s hottest programming and even uncover hidden gems distributed through smaller apps.
The TVision Power Score factors in four key metrics: the amount of time viewers pay attention to the program, the amount of program time available for the season, the program’s reach, as well as the application’s reach. This combination of metrics was chosen to enable a neutral look at the quality of programming and its unique, inherent ability to draw in viewers - regardless of the scale of the platform, or the program’s release schedule.
TVision Power Score: TVision's Power Score represents how engaged audiences are for any given program. Our formula looks at (Attentive seconds / Seconds Available) x (Program Reach per Season / Publisher Reach).
Share of Time Spent: Compares the distribution of time spent viewing the app or program relative to the selected variable.
Binge Release: Model in which multiple episodes in a season are released at the same time
Weekly Release: Model in which shows release one new episode in a season at a time over the course of several weeks
New Shows: Show has aired new episodes within the last 30 days Older Shows: Shows has not aired new episodes in the last 30 days
Original Content: Programs that are exclusive to a single platform
Syndicated Content/Streaming Library Content: Programs that airs on multiple CTV platforms or have their entire suite of content available.