Over time, the platform has eroded the old boundaries separating television, streaming and audience-created content. Oscar viewership has not returned to its 2014 peak of around 44 million viewers. Over half of the official channel’s YouTube watch time already comes from connected TV screens,” Sesame Workshop said. At 11 am, The New York Times reports, YouTube had an average audience of 6.3 million viewers in October, Nielsen said. In 2024 alone, viewers streamed more than one billion hours of YouTube content every day from their living rooms.

Source: The Telegraph January 27, 2026 01:18 UTC