audience share

American  

noun

1. the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.

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Etymology

Origin of audience share

First recorded in 1970–75

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audience share

Zillow’s overarching strategy is to narrow the gap between its audience share in home search and the share of transactions it monetizes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

The payoff remains elusive as the service lags Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and others in terms of subscriber counts and audience share.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025

This measure also marks the first time that broadcast TV’s audience share sank below 20%, a stat that begs for a pulse check.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025

The match, which was also shown on ITV, brought in a peak TV audience of 17.8m on BBC One with a TV audience share of 63%.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024

Growing out of this conviction-tension comes resolve to make the audience share that conviction-tension.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey