section_path: Ceremony information/Ratings and reception
section_name: Ratings and reception
paragraph_text: Ratings and reception
  
  The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 19.69 million people over its length, marking a 1% increase from the previous year's ceremony and extending the longest streak of annual U.S. television viewership increases – at its fourth consecutive year beginning from the opening post- COVID pandemic edition in 2022 – for the Academy Awards since the inception of regularly published Nielsen data for the awards show in 1974. The said total figure covers both Nielsen's measurements of linear viewers on ABC plus livestreams on Hulu. It became the highest-rated entertainment (non-sport and non-informative) television program in the 2024–25 television season. Moreover, it had the highest rating among adults age 18–49 this awards season with a 4.54 rating, up 19% from last year. When isolated to adults 18–34, it was the highest-rated Academy Awards in five years with a 3.17 rating. On social media, it generated 104.2 million interactions, the most of any television program in the 2024–25 season so far.
  
  The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 19.69 million people over its length, marking a 1% increase from the previous year's ceremony and extending the longest streak of annual U.S. television viewership increases – at its fourth consecutive year beginning from the opening post- COVID pandemic edition in 2022 – for the Academy Awards since the inception of regularly published Nielsen data for the awards show in 1974. The said total figure covers both Nielsen's measurements of linear viewers on ABC plus livestreams on Hulu. It became the highest-rated entertainment (non-sport and non-informative) television program in the 2024–25 television season. Moreover, it had the highest rating among adults age 18–49 this awards season with a 4.54 rating, up 19% from last year. When isolated to adults 18–34, it was the highest-rated Academy Awards in five years with a 3.17 rating. On social media, it generated 104.2 million interactions, the most of any television program in the 2024–25 season so far.