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Super Bowl 2015 swept all audience records
Patricia Molina| 3 de febrero de 2015
On Sunday February 1st, the biggest game of the NFL league that put face to face the New England Patriots against the Seattle Seahawks took place. The event exceeded all expectations and forecasts this year, breaking historical records on TV and in social networks.With 114.4 million viewers, the transmission of NBC became the most watched program in the history of TV in the US, surpassing by 2.2 million record set by last year’s championship.72% of the viewers in the US viewed the Super Bowl XLIX, with a rating of 49.7% with a peak of 52.3% over the end of the game when it rose to 120.8 million people. Finally, the interpretation of singer Katy Perry during the great halftime show was watched by 118.5 million viewers.Similarly, the Super Bowl was an explosion of content in the social networks. Facebook reported that more than 65 million users contributed with 265 million shares, while Twitter reported that 28.4 million messages transmitted information about the Super Bowl and of the halftime show.In addition, more than 1.3 million people watched the Super Bowl through the NBC, at the crucial moment when the player Malcolm Butler intercepted a pass that went for Seahawks player Ricardo Leckette. This is the highest number of viewers streaming for a Super Bowl.
