Smackdown 5/15 Viewership About The Same As Last Week After Falling For Weeks

Smackdown Viewership has been falling but leveled off this week. 

Each week since the Superstar Shakeup, Smackdown viewership has slipped little but little until it got to around 2.3 million viewers last week. This week according to ShowBuzz Daily, Smackdown had around 2.3 million viewers again this week. This week also had roughly the same amount of viewers in the 18 to 49 year old demographic as last week with 700 thousand viewers. 

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The NBA conference finals and NBA Draft lottery both aired during Smackdown and earned more viewers on average and more viewers in the 18 to 49 year old demographic. The NBA Playoffs have been going on during this down period of WWE viewership. 

On YouTube, two videos had around one million views. Daniel Bryan beating on Big Cass has 1.1 million views and the match between AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura had 916 thousand views. The video of Carmella finding out she will be defending her championship against the Asuka at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view has over 750 thousand views. 

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