Super Bowl viewers stayed tuned during the commercials,
according to a second-by-second analysis compiled by Rentrak.
Only slightly more than one percent of the audience watched
less of the ads on average than the game itself, according to Rentrak, which said
the game had a 98.82 Ad Retention Index.
Both viewing levels of the game and of the commercials
climbed during the first two quarter, then dropped off at halftime. Viewing
picked up again in the second half, soaring in the fourth quarter as the Packers
wrapped up the game.
The most-watched TV commercial was the last one that aired,
Fox's promotion for Glee, which followed the game.
Rentrak's data comes from its data bases of more than
17 million set top boxes. The Ad Retention Indix looks at the second-by-second
average for commercials and compares them to the average for the entire
program.
