NBC News continues to see year-over-year growth in unique visitors, video views and hours watched
March 17, 2021 — NBC News (NBC News, TODAY, MSNBC) had its best February ever, growing its video views by +20% year-over-year and hours watched by more than +62% year-over-year.
NBC News NOW had its third best month ever, with hours-viewed up nearly 800% year-over-year. Viewers watched NBC News NOW on-net for an average of 41 minutes at a time.
According to comScore, NBC News reached 123 million unique visitors in February, up +4% year-over-year. TODAY had its third best month on record with 56M unique visitors, up +32% year-over-year.
Additional highlights:
- More than 90% of NBC News Stay Tuned viewers are under the age of 35.
- MSNBC.com saw more than 220M video views across platforms.
- TODAY reached its third largest audience ever with 56M unique visitors.
- TODAY All Day had its fifth record month in a row.
- NBCNews.com reached more than 100M unique visitors for its fifth straight month, according to Adobe Analytics.
- NBC News Digital saw more than 100M visits from social platforms.
- The NBC News mobile app grew its audience +30% year-over-year (1.5M unique visitors).
- Comcast NBCUniversal’s Plan Your Vaccine site created by NBCNews.com has reached 3.5M unique visitors from all fifty states and 5.5M page views.
Sources: Comscore Media Metrix, February 2021, U.S. desktop internet population 2+ and mobile internet population 13+ years old; Adobe Analytics and Partner Portals, February 2021
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For more information, contact:
Emily Passer
NBC News Digital
Emily.Passer@nbcuni.com
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