Nielsen Announces 2025 ARTEY Award Winners Following Record-Breaking Year of Streaming

Bluey' Wins Second Consecutive Top Streaming Title of the Year with 45 Billion Viewing Minutes on Disney Stranger Things' Secures Top Original Series with 40 Billion Minutes Streamed on Netflix, as the Streamer Claims Five Wins Seth MacFarlane Named Streaming Icon of the Year with his TV Shows and Films Earning 60 Billion Streaming Minutes Audiences Spent 16.7 Trillion Minutes Streaming in 2025, Up 19% Year-Over-Year NEW YORK - January 28, 2026 - Nielsen today announced the winners of the 2025 ARTEY Awards, the company's annual recognition of the most-watched streaming titles of the year. This year's ARTEY Awards went to eight titles across Disney , HBO Max, Netflix, Paramount and Pluto, and also included the inaugural ARTEY for Streaming Icon of the Year, which was presented to Seth MacFarlane.

Powered by Nielsen's Streaming Content Ratings data, ARTEY Award winners are uniquely determined by the audience. Awards are presented to the streaming title that captured the most viewing minutes throughout the year within a given category. Nielsen's 2025 ARTEY Award winners include:

Award CategoryTitleDistributorTotal

Top Overall & Top Acquired Bluey Disney 45.2 billion minutes

Top Original Stranger Things Netflix 40.0 billion

Top Kids Movie KPop Demon Hunters Netflix 20.6 billion

Top Movie General Audiences Happy Gilmore 2 Netflix 7.1 billion

Top New Original Drama The Pitt HBO Max 11.4 billion

Top New Original Comedy Running Point Netflix 5.1 billion

Top New Original Unscripted Sean Combs: The Reckoning Netflix 4.8 billion

Most-Binged Series Gunsmoke Paramount

Pluto

Peacock 241 episodes

per viewer

Streaming Icon of the Year Seth MacFarlane Hulu

Peacock

Netflix 60 billion minutes

Nielsen's streaming insights for 2025 also revealed that audiences spent an estimated 16.7 trillion minutes streaming in 2025-equivalent to about 277.6 billion hours, 11.6 billion days and over 31.7 million years. This is about an 19% increase in time spent streaming compared to 2024, which totaled nearly 14 trillion minutes. It also marks the most heavily streamed year on record, according to Nielsen.

The ARTEY Awards give us a chance to have a little more fun with the data categories by acknowledging how consumers are engaging with shows and movies, said Brian Fuhrer, SVP Product Strategy at Nielsen. It's especially interesting to track the evolution of streaming and the titles that drive it year-over-year, and the strategies and successes that our clients have along with it. While there are some expected winners, there are always some surprises and new entrants that have captured the imagination of viewers. What is undeniable is the trajectory of streaming, and the increasing appetite for content of all kinds.

The ARTEY for Streaming Icon of the Year was presented to Seth MacFarlane. This specific honor recognizes a creator, actor, producer or writer whose vast body of work drives significant, sustained viewership across platforms. As a prolific force in entertainment, MacFarlane was selected as the inaugural recipient for his time-tested ability to engage audiences. In 2025 alone, MacFarlane's catalog of TV series and films generated over 60 billion viewing minutes across streaming platforms, a figure equivalent to about 116,000 years of time spent streaming.

Key drivers of MacFarlane's recognition include:

Family Guy: The series ranked as the second most-watched adult animation streaming title and the No. 7 streaming program overall in 2025. In a display of incredible consistency, Family Guy charted on Nielsen's Streaming Top 10 for an astonishing 37 weeks in 2025. Family Guy remains a pop-culture staple, earning MacFarlane multiple Emmy Awards-including four for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, tying for the most wins in that category's history. All episodes of Family Guy stream on Hulu.

American Dad!: The series secured the No. 3 most-watched adult animation streaming title in 2025, further solidifying MacFarlane's dominance in the genre. He is the co-creator, executive producer, and primary voice actor for the long-running animated favorite. The new season will air its anticipated 400th episode in 2026 and all episodes stream on Hulu.

Family Guy was the top streaming show among adults 18-34 in 2025. American Dad! ranked fifth among the same age group. Both are among the longest-running shows in TV history.

MacFarlane's acclaimed films generated nearly 2 billion viewing minutes on streaming alone, including recent Critics' Choice Award Winner The Naked Gun, Ted, Ted 2, A Million Ways to Die in the West and Books of Blood.

MacFarlane's additional beloved TV series racked up nearly 3 billion viewing minutes, including The Orville, Ted (series), The Cleveland Show, The End is Nye, Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey and Cosmos: Possible Worlds.

I want to thank Nielsen for this Streaming Icon Award, said Seth MacFarlane. It's a high honor to receive the first prize in show business that isn't determined by quality.

Seth MacFarlane is behind some of the most-beloved and most-watched shows and movies across every platform, said Brian Hughes, Director of Data Communications, Nielsen. When it comes to streaming TV, people vote with their time and Seth's prolific projects are clearly getting their votes.

The viewing is also notable as it is spread across different platforms. In the coming weeks, Family Guy premieres its 24th season with its milestone 450th episode on FOX (February 15); American Dad! debuts its 20th season marking its return to FOX (February 22) and both shows stream new episodes the next day on Hulu. Additionally, MacFarlane's highly-anticipated second season of Ted premieres on Peacock on March 5.

Seth MacFarlane is the founder of Fuzzy Door, the production co

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