Week 18

  • Monday Night Football Season-to-Date is +11% higher than 2020.
  • The new Week 18 Saturday doubleheader on ESPN and ABC averaged 19.7M viewers, which is almost 40% above the 2021 MNF season average.
  • ESPN’s DAL/PHI game was the most-watched NFL window of Week 18.
  • Week 18 delivered record-breaking NFL regular season audiences on the ESPN networks. The double-header games rank as the #1 and #2 most-watched games of the 2021 MNF season. Additionally, they also rank as the 3rd (DAL/PHI) and 5th (KC/DEN) most-watched MNF games on record.
  • Get Up! recorded its strongest viewership #s ever on January 10th, an achievement that stood for all of one week, with 658K viewers on January 17th. Both of these Monday episodes were presented by T-Mobile!

Week 17

  • Monday Night Football Season-to-Date is +11% higher than 2020.
  • MNF was the #1 Most Social telecast of the day with 4 million social interactions.
  • Viewers watching MNF are 99% more likely to search for advertising in games than viewers of average Broadcast/Cable Prime.

Week 16

  • Monday Night Football Season-to-Date is +11% higher than 2020.
  • MNF was the #2 Most Social telecast of Monday night with 1.4 million social interactions. ESPN’s own SportsCenter was the #1 Social telecast of the night.
  • ESPN garnered nearly 3.5MM video views on Facebook and Twitter. This represented 9% of the total views for NFL games this week. 
  • NFL weekly page views on ESPN Digital were the highest of any single week since Week 2.

Week 15

  • Monday Night Football Season-to-Date is up +12% vs. the same period of the 2020 season.
  • This week’s MNF game (Min/Chi) ranks as the third most-watched game of the season behind Week 1’s BAL/LV (E1+ABC+E2) and last week’s LAR/ARI also on ESPN+ABC.
  • Week 15 was up +20% with total viewers vs. last year’s PIT/CIN game in Week 15 2020.
  • NFL Digital Content Uniques (+24%), Minutes (+12%), Page Views (+10%) and Short Form Video Views (+63%) were all up compared to Week 15 2020.
  • MNF social video views STD across Facebook and Twitter are up +17% and in Week 15, Facebook video views were up significantly (+73%) vs. Week 15 2020.

Week 14

  • Monday’s game between LA Rams vs. Arizona averaged 15.9MM viewers this week, up +23% from last year’s Baltimore/Cleveland Week 14 game.
  • This week’s game ranks as the second-most-watched game of the season, only behind Week 1, which also aired on ABC.
  • While ABC & ESPN delivered a similar number of total viewers, there were differences by age and gender. ABC generated more Female & older viewers, while ESPN skewed more Male & younger.

Week 13

  • Monday Night Football Season-to-Date is +11% higher than 2020.
  • MNF was the #1 Most Social NFL telecast of the week with nearly 3.9 million social interactions.
  • Monday’s game between New England vs. Buffalo averaged 14.9MM viewers this week, up +3% from last year’s Buffalo/San Francisco Week 13 game, which also aired on ABC.
  • Season-to-date, MNF is now averaging 13.2MM viewers, +11% higher than 2020 and +4% over 2019 MNF seasons-to-date.
  • This week’s game ranks as the second-most-watched game of the season, only behind Week 1, which also aired on ABC.

Week 12

  • Season-to-date, MNF is now averaging 13.1MM viewers, +11% higher than the 2020 MNF season-to-date.
  • MNF was the #1 Most Social Sports telecast of the day on Monday, with 1.3 million social interactions.

Week 11

  • This week’s Monday Night Football matchup between the New York Giants and Tampa Bay Bucs was the night’s most watched telecast across key demos.
  • The game averaged 11.9 million viewers and across ESPN and ESPN2.
  • This week’s MNF was the #1 most social and the #1 driver of social video views across all Week 11 NFL games.

Week 10

  • Monday’s game between the LA Rams and San Francisco averaged 12.2MM viewers this week up +3% from last year’s Minnesota/Chicago Week 10 game,
  • The game peaked a little earlier this week, in the 9:00-9:15pm quarter hour of the game with 14.1MM viewers, as San Francisco led by 14 points before the half.

Week 9

  • Monday’s game between the Bears and the Steelers averaged 12.1MM viewers this week up +18% from last year’s Patriots/Jets Week 9 game, the third least-watched MNF game of the 2020 season.
  • With more popular NFL teams featured this year, audiences started 31% higher than last year’s Week 9 matchup and surpassed it throughout the entire game.
  • After a 10-point fourth-quarter Steelers lead turned into a one-point deficit, audiences continued to build until the final full quarter hour.

Week 8

  • Monday’s game between the Giants and the Chiefs averaged 13.9M viewers this week up +14% from last year’s Tampa Bay/NY Giants Week 8 game.
  • Viewers watching MNF are more likely to search for advertising in games than viewers of NBC’s Sunday Night Football, as well as FOX & CBS NFL viewers.

Week 7

  • Monday’s game between the Saints and the Seahawks averaged 12.8M viewers this week up +17% from last year’s Chicago/LA Rams Week 7 game.
  • Monday’s game saw a strong 2nd half, building all the way through to the final full quarter hour of the game.
  • The game peaked in the 9:15-9:30pm quarter hour of the game with 14.3M viewers across ESPN/ESPN2.

Week 6

  • Monday Night Football season to date by week 6 was up +17%.
  • Monday’s game between the Bills and the Titans averaged 12.5M viewers this week up +6% from last year’s Arizona/Dallas Week 6 game.
  • Season to date, MNF is averaging just under 14.0M viewers, +17% higher than 2020 and +15% versus 2019 MNF seasons to date.

Week 5

  • Monday’s game between the Colts and the Ravens averaged 11.3M viewers this week up +1% from last year’s LA Chargers/New Orleans Week 5 overtime game.
  • Monday Night Football had the #1 most social NFL game throughout Week 5.

Week 4

  • MNF averaged 12.9M viewers this week up +42% from last year’s Atlanta/Green Bay Week 4 game, which was the second least-watched MNF game of the 2020 season.
  • Monday’s game unexpectedly faced a 35 minute weather delay due to lightning. Coincidentally, last year’s Week 4 MNF game was also pushed back, but due to CBS’ NE/KC game being pushed from Sunday to Monday after a few players tested positive for Covid. This put MNF up against a strong NFL matchup, which led to last year’s game ranking as the second lowest of the season.

Week 3

  • MNF averaged 14.8M viewers this week up +1% from last year’s Kansas City/Baltimore Week 3 game, which was the third most-watched MNF game of the 2020 season.
  • MNF with Peyton and Eli delivered 1.9M viewers, slightly higher than last week’s game. ESPN2 is delivering a younger audience than ESPN, with a median age of 47 vs 52 on ESPN.

Week 2

  • The Manning brothers’ telecast on ESPN2 averaged almost 2 million viewers this week, doubling its numbers from last week.
  • Monday Night Football had the #1 most social video views of any telecast on Monday, 9/20/21.

Week 1

  • Monday Night Football is back in a big way! The Megacast was up +36% from the Week 1 early game last year.
  • This was the second most-watched Week 1 MNF game ever.