Hosted by country music superstar and coach on NBC's The Voice, Blake Shelton, Nickelodeon's 29th Annual Kids' Choice Awards was watched in more than 180 countries and territories around the globe. Within hours of airing live on Saturday 12th March 2016 from 8:00pm ET/PT from the "Fabulous" Forum in Inglewood, California to viewers in the United States, Canada and Australia, the show rolled out internationally giving kids around the world the opportunity to tune into their local Nickelodeon channel to enjoy the show.
In many international markets, the 2016 KCAs featured country-specific award categories and nominees such as UK's Favorite Tipster, Favorite Pinoy Personality and Estrella Latina Favorita (Favorite Latin Artist). Voting spanned six continents across local Nickelodeon websites and Twitter hashtag voting (#KCA), giving kids practically everywhere the chance to decide who takes home a coveted blimp.
For Nickelodeon's 2016 Kids' Choice Awards, kids cast a amazing half a billion votes for their favourites from the worlds of film, music and television! 1
Nickelodeon's 2016 Kids' Choice Awards was watched by 10 million total viewers across Nick USA, Nicktoons, TeenNick, TV Land and CMT! 2
Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2016 Snapchat geofilter was viewed 6 million times! 3
The Nickelodeon 2016 Kids' Choice Awards was a trending topic across Twitter, Instagram and Vine! 4
Fans made 245 million social engagements about Nickelodeon's 2016 Kids' Choice Awards across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! 5
Nickelodeon's 2016 Kids' Choice Awards was the #1 social show in all of television in the USA! 6
Additionally, the UK premiere of Nickelodeon's 2016 Kids' Choice Awards on Sunday 13th March 2016 at 5:30pm was the number one show on Nickelodeon UK & Ireland that week, and was watched by 142,000 viewers! 7
Check out Viacom's Nickelodeon's 2016 Kids' Choice Awards ratings presentation below!:
Sources:
1) Nickelodeon tracking across Nick.com, Nick apps and Twitter.
2) Nielsen, Live+SD, 6 min qualifier, 3/12/16-3/13/16, P2+, all airings on Nickelodeon/Nicktoons/TeenNick/TV Land/CMT.
3) Snapchat.
4) Twitter, Instagram, Vine, 3/12.
5) Nielsen, Twitter, Simply Measured, CrowdTangle, 2/1-3/12
6) Nielsen Social Guide, 3/12
7) BARB, w/e 13 Mar 2016.
Roll on Nickelodeon's 2017 Kids' Choice Awards, Nickelodeon's 30th Annual Kids' Choice Awards!
Additional sources: AccountingCoach, W3Schools.
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