
The first two weekends of NFL
Playoffs football
dropped 3% in viewership from a year ago -- to 31.6 million from 32.5 million, per Nielsen data.The most-viewed game this year was the the
divisional playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers -- coming in at 45.7 million viewers.
The NFL pulled in an estimated $1.1 billion in national TV
advertising revenue, offering marketers 17.7 billion impressions, according to iSpot.tv.
National TV revenue a year ago amounted to $1.2 billion, with total impressions at 26.2
billion. The top paid advertisers were Verizon ($50.6 million), Progressive Insurance ($36.7 million), Chevrolet ($25.40 million) and Geico ($25.35 million).
The
“attention” index for all national TV ads, as measured by iSpot for these ads, was 66.
iSpot.tv says this “attention” number has a 100 index as average. A year
ago, attention for all NFL ads for the first two weeks averaged 112.
The best result for attention this year was a CBS on-air promo for its reality competition show “Tough As
Nails,” earning a 174 attention index. The best paid ad this year came from Intuit, for its “Every Dream Deserves a Chance” spot at 167.