Shareablee Ranks Top Ten TV Networks in September 2015

Shareablee Ranks Top Ten TV Networks in September 2015

FOX breaks into Top Ten; BBC America sees largest growth in September

NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Shareablee Inc., the leading social media benchmarking and audience analysis firm that partners with TV and cable networks CBS, NBC, ESPN, Univision, FOX News and CNN, among others, today released a September ranking of the most socially engaged TV Networks in the U.S. The ranking, which includes all television shows and the main network brand accounts under their respective networks, reflects a total of 483 million social actions across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and YouTube. Engagement for TV networks remained flat compared to August 2015.

FOX broke into the Top Ten in September, driven by the premieres of Empire which topped Fall primetime TV shows with 6.8 million actions, and Scream Queens, which scored number one among new Fall primetime TV shows with 4.6 million actions. ABC ranked number one on Facebook with 36.1 million actions, NBC ranked number one on YouTube and Tumblr with a combined 2.4 million actions, and ESPN ranked number one on Twitter and Instagram with 9.4 and 36.4 million actions, respectively. Fox News topped the news category with 28.3 million actions. BBC America grew 151 percent, the largest growth in the TV Network category during the month of September, driven by Doctor Who's 245 percent growth in total social actions, which premiered on September 19. NBC captured the most social amplification (shares and retweets) of any TV network with 8.4 million shares and retweets on Facebook and Twitter, and also scored the top engaged show on Tumblr: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.



Shareablee Social Scorecard: Top Ten U.S. TV Networks by Total Network Presence

September 2015
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Rank Network Total Total Actions to Fans Indexiii Fans & Followersiv

Actionsi Contentii Facebook Facebook

Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter

Twitter Twitter Instagram Instagram

Instagram Instagram YouTube YouTube

YouTube YouTube

Tumblr Tumblr
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Category Average 8.6M 4,323 100 49.6M
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1. ESPN 66.9M 16,027 288% 120.3M
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2. ABC 53.2M 19,300 141% 195,.2M
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3. NBC 47M 18,465 155% 156.5M
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4. Telemundo 37.6M 14,052 522% 37.3M
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5. Fox News 28.3M 12,039 427% 34.3M
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6. Univision 25.4M 19,089 227% 57.9M
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7. MTV 23.5M 6,405 83% 147.1M
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8. FOX 21.8M 8,944 31% 365.8M
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9. CBS 19M 16,355 43% 229.2M
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10. E! 15.1M 7,847 183% 43.1M
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i Total actions metric includes the
total volume of post-level likes,
shares, favorites, retweets,
comments, reblogs and dislikes for
all properties under each brand
across platforms.

ii Total content includes all posts,
tweets, media and YouTube videos
posted by all properties under each
brand across platforms.

iii "Actions to fans index" is
calculated as the total number of
actions taken on all posts made by
properties in the network in the
time period, divided by the total
fan count of all properties in the
network. This value is then set as
an index against all U.S. TV
Networks. (Does not included
Tumblr.)

iv Total fans/followers includes
average fans/followers for all
properties under each brand as of
September 30, 2015. (Does not
include Tumblr.)


Other notable findings include:


-- The Top Five TV shows by engagement: SportsCenter, ESPN (35 million
actions), The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, NBC (12.7 million
actions), El Senor de los Cielos, Telemundo (10.3 million actions),
Grey's Anatomy, ABC (6.8 million actions), Empire, FOX (6.8 million
actions)
-- The Top Five TV Networks on Facebook: ABC (36.1 million actions), NBC
(36.1 million actions), Telemundo (34.3 million actions), Fox News (26.3
million actions), ESPN (21.1 million actions)
-- The Top Five Networks on Twitter: ESPN (9.4 million actions), ABC (3.1
million actions), NBC (2.7 million actions), FOX (1.6 million actions),
MTV (1.5 million actions)
-- The Top Five Networks on Instagram: ESPN (36.4 million actions), ABC
(12.7 million actions), MTV (7.8 million actions), E! (7.1 million
actions), FOX (7 million actions)
-- The Top Five Networks on YouTube: NBC (2.1 million actions), ABC (1.3
million actions), FOX (721.8 thousand actions), CBS (227.3 thousand
actions), Comedy Central (221.9 thousand actions)
About Shareablee Inc.
Launched in 2013, Shareablee Inc. is the leading authority on audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking and actionable insights for social media. The official social media analytics partner of comScore, Shareablee measures a census of global properties and collects brand audience and engagement data across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

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