Streaming Ratings: ‘Stranger Things’ Surges Again in Final Full Week of 2025

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Streaming Ratings: ‘Stranger Things’ Surges Again in Final Full Week of 2025
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Apple TV’s ‘Pluribus’ also has its best showing in the week of its season finale.

The Netflix smash recorded 6.89 billion minutes of viewing for the week of Dec. 22-28. That trails only two other weeks in the five-year history of Nielsen’s streaming rankings — both of which are also owned byTV Ratings: 'CBS Evening News' Edges Up in Tony Dokoupil's Second Week, '60 Minutes' Takes Big Hitrecorded more than 25 billion viewing minutes in the United States.

That figure alone would make it the top original streaming series of the year and put the show in the top seven among all titles, to say nothing of its tallies for the previous 47 weeks of 2025.set a new high of 483 million minutes of watch time for the week of its first season finale. The Rhea Seehorn-led series grew by 41 percent week to week. Also growing substantially was, which was up 16 percent on Prime Video as the second episode of its season debuted .also continued its big second season, rising for a sixth straight week to 1.64 billion minutes for Paramount+. On the acquired series chart, former TNT stalwartdrew 974 million viewing minutes after being added to Netflix on Dec. 22 .topped the list with 1.05 billion minutes of watch time for Disney+, its best weekly showing ever on the Nielsen charts.cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for Dec. 22-28, 2025, are below.TV Ratings: ‘CBS Evening News’ Edges Up in Tony Dokoupil’s Second Week, ’60 Minutes’ Takes Big Hit‘Heated Rivalry’ Star Christina Chang on Loving Yuna and Who She’s Most Excited to Share Scenes With in Season 2. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. // This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the GoogleThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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