The main comedy sequences rarely live up to the hype, but “Happy Gilmore 2” immediately hit a nerve throughout the golf. But the influence of the film is not limited to the sports fans that parodies; The achievement is widespread. This is evidenced by a large broadcast record that set last month.
Nielsen company released the big broadcast news earlier this week. And while large vision numbers are good news for Adam Sandler and together, they can fade compared to the viewing of the masters.
Here’s what you need to know.
‘Happy gilmore 2’ most broadcast movie ever
Adam Sandler’s The long -awaited tracking For his 1996 iconic film “Happy Gilmore” was almost immediately loved. Its achievement was assisted by Numerous weapons throughout the movieand not just from golf stars but famous and athletes from outside sports (including Taylor Swift Tavis Kelce’s boyfriend).
Thanks to Nielsen, we have some numbers to measure how big this opportunity was.
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He played a leading role in ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ – without a single line
Michael Bamberger
You may not understand that Nielsen releases the estimated vision numbers as they have done for TV for decades. But this week’s announcement by the company was a shock.
According to Nielsen, from July 21-27, “Happy Gilmore 2” accumulated more transmitters than any movie ever has in a single week. Nielsen data point uses to compare the transmission content is the “Viewed Minutes”.
So how many minutes did people go through “Happy Gilmore 2” in the first days after its release on July 25? An incredible 2,893 billion minutes is seen.
When It may seem like everyone has seen “Happy Gilmore 2”, this is not literally real. But the 2,893 billion minutes looked at is the equivalent of every man on Earth watching the movie for just less than 30 seconds.
Nielsen also revealed that the holder of the previous title was the Netflix movie “Glass onion: A Mister Out Out”, which won 2,886 billion minutes.
How many ‘happy gilmore 2’ compares to the viewing of masters
So how is the popularity of “Happy Gilmore 2” compares with the largest tournament in Golf, the masters? Fortunately, we recently made an unscientific investigation into the Master’s viewing numbers after Bryson Dechambeau made a bold claim about the popularity of Golf on YouTube.
At the beginning of this month in “Pat McAfee Show”, Dechambeau shared his theory that youtube golf can already be more popular than golf In terms of viewing. He used the masters as an example.
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Bryson Dechambeau makes bold claims about the popularity of Golf on YouTube
Kevin Cunningham
“If you think about the amount of viewing in masters compared to youtube videos all connected together … Those amounts of views on YouTube are more than those who receive normal broadcasts,” Dechambeau argued at the time.
Sunday transmission of CBS of 2025 masters on average 12.7 million viewers during its five-hour (or 300-minute) space. Our rough mathematics revealed that it equates to about 3.8 billion minutes watching.
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