Club Popularity (and NRL comparisons) - June 30, 2022

[The_Wookie]

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[The_Wookie]

TV Ratings

With an average viewership of around 912,000 per game, including an FTA average of 512,000 and a Fox Grp average of 474,000 - the Broncos are by far the most watched team of either the NRL or AFL by quite the margin.

2-4th most watched teams in 2022 were AFL sides. The Western Bulldogs (780k with a 406k/343k split), Pies (765k - 445k/384k) and Tigers (756k - 481k/345k). Souths and Panthers only other teams averaging over 700k per game.

NRL clubs have the top 5 average FTA viewerships - although some are based on very limited games. Broncos (512k), Seagles, Souths, Melbourne and Panthers. Richmond the top drawing AFL club average on FTA with 481k.

9 Melbourne AFL clubs rate better on Seven in Melbourne, than any Sydney or Brisbane club in their respective cities. (Geelong is a Melbourne club for ratings purposes). These clubs averaged 240k on FTA in Melbourne alone. Sydney based clubs average 162,000 per game on Nine.

The Swans average 55,000 viewers in Sydney this year. The Lions average 44,000 in Brisbane. The Storm average 29,000 in Melbourne (from limited matches - all on GEM), and GWS average 27,000 in Sydney.

On Fox set top boxes and Fox Group ratings, 14 NRL clubs outrate the top AFL club, with the Broncos leading the way at 256k, while Collingwood is the only AFL club with a set top average over 200k.

Broncos, Eels, Storm, Tigers and Panthers make up the top 5 for the NRL, while the Pies, Blues, Cats, Tigers and Bulldogs are the top 5 AFL clubs on Fox.

no graphs for TV ratings are permitted by orders of Oztam. Sorry, theres some very pretty graphs too lol.

TV ratings data is sourced from Oztam/Regtam, Total tv and consolidated tv reports. Kayo and Fox group data is estimated from media reporting, thanks primarily to @TV_Blackbox Unfortunately I cannot link the data used.

 

[dave10]

saved for incoming tv data. (later)

Great work. Very insightful and thought provoking. Thanks for consolidating this data for us.

 

[The_Wookie]

ratings now added

 

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Love your work Wookie may I point out that the Blues now have 284,000 followers on Facebook

 

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I have added Youtube subscribers to social media

1) Collingwood FC 28,000 total 812,000
2) Essendon FC 21,400 total 731,300
3) Adelaide FC 21,100 total 616,500
4) Carlton FC 20,900 plus facebook 284,700 total 661,000
5) Port Adelaide 20,800 total 457,800
6) West Coast 20,300 total 666,100
7) North Melbourne 19,100 total 355,400
8) Brisbane Lions 14,000 total 390,800
9) Melbourne FC 13,900 total 374,900
9) Richmond Media FC 13,300 plus facebook 298,000 total 707,300
10) Hawthorn FC 13,300 total 649,300
11) Geelong FC 12,700 total 533,200
12) Western Bulldogs 11,400 total 433,900
13) St Kilda FC 10,200 total 393,500
14) Sydney Swans 9,610 total 558,100
15) Gold Coast FC 4,730 total 253,000
16) GWS GIANTS N/A
17) Fremantle Docker TV N/A

 

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Most popular websites since March hits for every club

Team	March	April	May	Average
Carlton FC	715,200​	610,000​	749,900​	691,700​
Essendon FC	614,300​	635,000​	606,900​	618,733​
Collingwood FC	610,100​	621,700​	534,800​	588,867​
Richmond FC	557,800​	530,600​	617,000​	568,467​
Fremantle	430,700​	608,300​	506,000​	515,000​
WCE	510,800​	504,900​	448,700​	488,133​
Adelaide	479,400​	504,700​	283,200​	422,433​
Melbourne	373,800​	334,600​	451,800​	386,733​
North	316,800​	358,000​	425,300​	366,700​
Hawthorn FC	312,100​	387,300​	288,900​	329,433​
Port Adel	295,100​	329,900​	276,200​	300,400​
Swans	321,100​	294,500​	277,400​	297,667​
Geelong	265,000​	292,500​	284,800​	280,767​
Bris Lio	277,200​	243,400​	244,400​	255,000​
western bull	247,700​	191,000​	231,500​	223,400​
St Kilda	164,700​	157,600​	124,200​	148,833​
Suns	122,300​	86,200​	91,300​	99,933​
Giants	83,600​	95,700​	96,300​	91,867​