A jam-packed day of sports on Christmas turned out to be a huge ratings success for both the NFL and NBA. The NFL easily won the day with an average of 22.9 million viewers for all three games, including a streaming-record 27.5 million watching the Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings game on Netflix.

Two of the NFL's three Christmas Day games have set viewership records. The Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings game on Netflix became the most-streamed NFL game in U.S. history.

The NFL's Christmas Day slate was supposed to have playoff implications with key divisional matchups, but it won't featured three key starting quarterbacks in each game.

Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL. The most-watched game of the holiday proved to be the mid-afternoon Lions-Vikings match up on Netflix,

One team faces a must-win contest on Christmas Day, while another needs a win to stay in contention for the No. 1 seed.

The Thunder-Spurs game featured the latest iteration of an emerging rivalry in the NBA, one that features a pair of the game’s most dynamic young stars in Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama and reigning NBA MVP, Shai Gilegous-Alexander.

The game, which streamed on Netflix, averaged 27.5 million U.S. viewers and peaked at over 30 million, per Nielsen

In its first full Christmas slate (2024), Netflix recorded breakthrough streaming results: Nielsen and the NFL reported an unduplicated U.S. audience of roughly 65 million across the doubleheader and per-game Average Minute Audience (AMA) figures between 24 and 27 million, figures that set streaming records for regular-season NFL games.

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