
Five episodes of Alone Australia have now passed the one million viewer mark
SBS continues to dominates digital viewing taking out the top seven spots in OzTAM 28 Day VPM rankings
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Audiences numbers continue to build with the first five episodes of Alone Australia having now all passed the 1 million viewer mark driven largely by the show's incredible success on SBS On Demand with almost half the audience coming from online.
In the two months since the debut of Alone Australia the first episode of the show has seen an incredible 347% Total TV uplift driven largely by Australians watching on SBS On Demand. The other eight episodes have also had significant uplifts of between 148% and 288% respectively. See breakdown below.
The Total TV audience for episode one now stands at 1.33m (when taking into account both SBS On Demand and 28 Day Timeshift) and remains SBS's highest rating program for 2023 to date. Episode two to five are now at a Total TV audience of between 1.15m and 1.28m. Episodes 6, 7 and 8 also continue to grow with Total TV audiences of in excess of 861,000 each.
SBS is also continuing to dominate the 28 Day OzTAM VPM rankings through the success of both Alone Australia as well as Rogue Heroes with the network taking out an incredible seven of the top 10 slots.
Linear TV audiences also continue to be strong for the show. Episode nine of Alone Australia, broadcast last night, had a linear audience of 315,000 (metro: 203,000 reg: 112,000). Since 7.30pm yesterday a further 74,000 viewers have watched this episode on SBS On Demand (Live VOD) bringing its total audience to date to 389,000.
Last night SBS had a metro linear share of 5.2% on its primary channel and 10.1% network share in total people.
Episode one
TOTAL TV
Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
28 DAY TV
Time Shift
TOTAL TV
UPLIFT
AVERAGE
AUDIENCE
1.33m
203,000
93,000
597,000
432,000
347%
Episode two
TOTAL TV
Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
28 DAY TV
Time Shift
TOTAL TV
UPLIFT
AVERAGE
AUDIENCE
1.28m
220,000
123,000
520,000
416,000
273%
Episode three
TOTAL TV
Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
28 DAY TV
Time Shift
TOTAL TV
UPLIFT
AVERAGE
AUDIENCE
1.18m
195,000
109,000
474,000
404,000
288%
Episode four
TOTAL TV
Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
28 DAY TV
Time Shift
TOTAL TV
UPLIFT
AVERAGE
AUDIENCE
1.16m
205,000
98,000
441,000
416,000
283%
Episode five
TOTAL TV
Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
28 DAY TV
Time Shift
TOTAL TV
UPLIFT
AVERAGE
AUDIENCE
1.15m
235,000
113,000
407,000
390,000
229%
Episode six
TOTAL TV
Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
7 DAY TV
Time Shift
TOTAL TV
UPLIFT
AVERAGE
AUDIENCE
933,000
232,000
102,000
357,000
242,000
179%
Episode seven
TOTAL TV
Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
7 DAY TV
Time Shift
TOTAL TV
UPLIFT
AVERAGE
AUDIENCE
868,000
234,000
117,000
310,000
208,000
148%
Episode eight
TOTAL TV
Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
7 DAY TV
Time Shift
TOTAL TV
UPLIFT
AVERAGE
AUDIENCE
861,000
236,000
108,000
263,000
255,000
151%
Episode nine
Total
Overnight Audience
METRO
Overnight
REGIONAL
Overnight
BVOD
Live VOD
ERAGE
AUDIENCE
389,000
203,000
112,000
74,000
AA Source Linear: OzTAM, Regional TAM, Eps 1,2,3,4,5 Cons 28, Eps 6-8 Cons 7 Ep9 overnight, FTA Shr%, TTL PPL
AA Source BVOD: OzTAM, Eps 1,2,3,4 (29/3/23 - 17/05/23) Ep5 Cons 28, Eps 6-8 Cons 7 Ep9 overnight, FTA Shr%, TTL PPL
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