Super Bowl gets 111.9 million viewers, down from past year

An average of 111.9 million viewers tuned in to CBS to watch Super Bowl MVP Von Miller lead the Broncos to a 24-10 win over the Panthers, according to Nielsen.

The television audience for the 50th Super Bowl this year was on course to approach 2015’s record 114.4 million viewers, according to preliminary ratings data on Monday. Since ABC aired its last Super Bowl back in 2006, the overall deliveries have increased every year but two – as was the case with Sunday’s broadcast, the blackout-delayed Ravens-49ers Harbaughfest of 2013 dropped by a margin of around 2.5 million viewers.

Super Bowl 50, the Denver Broncos versus the Carolina Panthers, kicks off at 10:30AM AEDT in Australia.

Besides the final score and cost of a 30-second commercial, one of the most important numbers from any Super Bowl are the final television ratings.

Only last year’s Patriots-Seahawks thriller has fared better in the overnights, pulling a 49.7 household rating.

For example, YouTube said that people spent 300,000 hours watching Super Bowl ads and teaser videos on its service during the game, and overall it saw almost 4 million hours of ads and teasers watched so far.

That game came in just behind the 2014 Super Bowl – Seattle v. Denver – in which bettors put down $119 million.

The NFL knows this, and plans on awarding streaming rights to its 16 Thursday night games to a company that isn’t a traditional network.

Or Chromecast owners can also fling the game from their computers onto the big screen by streaming in a Chrome browser and then mirroring it on their TV.

After the Lombardi Trophy was presented to the victorious Broncos, CBS threw to a special edition of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”. With streaming devices, mobile apps, online streams and more, viewers have a plethora of options to catch the game.