Don't buy fake headlines. The Golden Globes may have rebounded from disastrous ratings in 2021 and 2023, but viewership for the awards is still 45 percent lower than it was just five years ago.
If you go back 25 years, the Golden Globes boasted a steady, mostly stable audience. 20 million Viewer mark. In 2021, just 6.9 million people watched it and it all fell apart. In 2023, just 6.3 million people watched it. Last year, 9.4 million people watched it. This year, there were 10.1 million applications.
Well, 10.1 million in 2025 is still 45% lower than 18.3 million in 2023. As you read these great stories, keep the following in mind:
The 10.1 million viewers is a 7% increase from last year's show, which averaged 9.4 million viewers (though last year's total audience was measured by Nielsen). The 2024 ceremony, hosted by Jo Koy, will be CBS' first broadcast of the Golden Globes and represents a 50% increase over NBC's 2023 Globes telecast. (NBC's ratings were likely influenced by the fact that 2023 was the first year to be held after the scandal that rocked the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hosted the Globes ceremony.)
Hollywood Reporter: “The Golden Globes are on the rise. CBS says the ceremony saw an increase in viewership over last year's event.”
deadline: “In any case, Globes viewership continues to trend upward after hitting its lowest level two years ago when the show returned to the air after the HFPA scandal and drew 6.3 million Nielsen viewers. .”
indie wire: “Sunday's Golden Globe Awards averaged 10.1 million viewers across CBS and Paramount+ (and the CBS app), an increase of 7.4 percent from last January's show, according to Dick Clark Productions. .”
Only Deadline mentioned pre-2020 viewership numbers in a sentence deep in the article. The rest pretended everything was better.
Now comes my favorite part…
All four publications linked above are owned by Penske Media.
Well, that wasn't my favorite part. This is my favorite part…
Penske Media also owns the Golden Globes.
Are you starting to see how this works?
A media company corners the market with a top-three industry deal, buys an awards show and plans to use gaslighting to boost the prestige and influence of a show that has lost nearly half its audience in just five years. Forgiven. And that's what we know. Could it be that behind the scenes, those who post exclusive stories, scoops and access to Penske Media have a better chance of taking home a Golden Globe?
In 2024, only 817.8 million movie tickets were sold in the domestic market. it is almost fell That's down 50 percent from 25 years ago and nearly 35 percent from five years ago.
Because movies are preachy, pedantic, self-centered, scolding, and a means of disciplining young children, they are losing much of their cultural power. It takes an entertainment media monopoly to pretend it's not happening, a monopoly that will never admit why it's happening.
But it doesn't matter how much propaganda you push. Everything is falling apart.
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