The 2025 „MTV Video Music Awards“ (VMAs) delivered 5.5 million viewers, which marked a six-year audience high for the annual telecast.
The takeaway: broadcast television is far from dead, no matter how many reports suggest otherwise.
The VMAs also scored a few other milestones: it was the most-watched entertainment special on CBS since the Grammy Awards in February and the third-largest live-streamed entertainment event of the year on Paramount+, trailing only the Grammys and the Golden Globes.
