The 83rd annual Golden Globes reached a mean of 8.7 million viewers on Sunday night, which marked the ceremony’s third 12 months in a row of airing on CBS.
Measured by Nielsen, that total represents a 6% drop from the 9.3 million viewers reached by the 2025 ceremony — which marked a 2% decrease from the 2024 ceremony.
Airing at 5 p.m. PT, this 12 months’s live Golden Globes ceremony benefitted from lead-in viewership from the NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars that aired on CBS. However the ceremony also competed directly with NBC’s telecast of the NFL wild card game that saw the Latest England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Chargers to secure a playoff berth.
Nikki Glaser hosted the Globes for the second 12 months in a row and was once more positively received. Variety critic Alison Herman wrote that “Glaser continued to confidently strut the skinny and delicate line between landing punches while seeming infectiously excited to be within the Beverly Hilton ballroom,” and producers of the ceremony told Variety they “actually hope” she’ll return as host again next 12 months.
Glaser’s opening monologue generated 14 million views across social media platforms after 36 hours. On the Golden Globes’ YouTube page as of Tuesday evening the 11-minute monologue was as much as 3.7 million views. CBS said the ceremony delivered probably the most “social interactions” in Globes history with some 42 million interactions on Sunday night.
Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner of White Cherry Entertainment served as showrunners and executive producers of the Golden Globes. The ceremony was produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Variety parent company PMC in a three way partnership with Eldridge.
The Globes also aired in 165 international territories.