Overview
- Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel was reported to show an average 128.2 million U.S. viewers for the 15‑minute set, while the NFL’s communications chief cautioned earlier that no official viewership figures had been released yet.
- NBC and Ripple Analytics reported a record 4 billion social video views in the first 24 hours, with more than half of the NFL’s social views coming from international markets.
- Rep. Andy Ogles urged the House Energy and Commerce Committee to investigate the NFL and NBCUniversal over what he called indecent content, pressing for details on lyric reviews, translations, and broadcast safeguards.
- Independent fact-checks refuted viral claims that Bad Bunny sat during the anthem, burned a U.S. flag in a circulated image, or brought onstage a child tied to an ICE arrest, identifying the image as AI-generated and the child as actor Lincoln Fox.
- Turning Point USA’s Kid Rock–led counterprogramming drew reported millions of concurrent YouTube viewers, while separate footage showed President Trump’s party watching the NFL broadcast of Bad Bunny’s show as he publicly condemned it.