Swingtown Makes a Top 10 List: television viewing habits and web traffic do not always correlate. Plus, not including “The Olympics” or NBCOlympics.com as a TV Show probably skews the week’s results dramatically. That American Idol, Deal or No Deal, DWTS, Heroes, The Office and Lost perform so well even when they’re not actually airing episodes is…something. Nonetheless, outside of the Olympics, Big Brother was king of the Web universe, and by a very, very wide margin.
| Hitwise Custom Report for Top Visited U.S. Broadcast Network TV Show Websites (Week ending August 23, 2008) | |||
| Rank | Network | Website | Market Share Of Visits |
| 1 | CBS | Big Brother | 16.48% |
| 2 | FOX | America’s Most Wanted | 6.11% |
| 3 | FOX | American Idol | 5.73% |
| 4 | NBC | Deal or No Deal | 4.37% |
| 5 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 4.37% |
| 6 | CBS | CSI | 2.67% |
| 7 | NBC | Heroes | 2.62% |
| 8 | NBC | The Office | 2.53% |
| 9 | ABC | Lost | 2.50% |
| 10 | CBS | Swingtown | 2.46% |
| Source: Rankings based on market share of U.S. visits among custom category of television network websites among six major commercial broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW and MyNetwork) for the week ending August 23, 2008 (Sunday – Saturday) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. | |||
| Source: Hitwise | |||
Top US Broadcast Network TV Websites for the week ending August 23, 2008:
| Hitwise Custom Report for Top Visited U.S. Broadcast Network TV Websites (Week ending August 23, 2008) | |||
| Rank | Network | Website | Market Share Of Visits |
| 1 | CBS | www.cbs.com | 32.09% |
| 2 | NBC | www.nbc.com | 27.21% |
| 3 | ABC | abc.go.com | 21.19% |
| 4 | *FOX Aggregation | *FOX Aggregation | 14.08% |
| 5 | The CW Television Network | www.cwtv.com | 4.75% |
| 6 | MyNetworkTV | www.mynetworktv.com | 0.69% |
| Source: Rankings based on market share of U.S. visits among custom category of commercial broadcast networks websites (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW and MyNetwork) for the week ending August 23, 2008 (Sunday – Saturday) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. * includes traffic aggregated from stand alone websites americanidol.com, amw.com, familyguy.com, cops.com, thelot.com and thesimpsons.com. | |||
| Source: Hitwise | |||
This list doesn't include HULU.com which is where I, and many others go to watch NBC and FOX show online so this list is really only relevant for CBS and ABC
Dave, this list is not about watching videos, but if it were I'd agree with you completely.
And hey Robert, Swingtown made the top ten, even though there was no show aired on August 22nd. What do you make of that, huh? How about those fans!