The Turning Point USA All-American Halftime Show, featuring Kid Rock, aired last night concurrent with Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX performance in Seattle and drew record-breaking online viewership.
Speaking to his audience on Monday's edition of Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I'm excited to announce that last night, the Turning Point USA All-American Halftime Show became the number one YouTube live stream in America, the number two overall YouTube live stream in all of history, throughout the entire world, and I don't know what to say other than thank you,” Posobiec said Monday.
“I don't know what to say other than this is a turning point. This is a turning point for America. This is a turning point for our culture. This is a moment where patriots around the world came together and said, we want no more. We want no more of what we're getting from the mainstream. We want no more of what we're getting from big corporate America, from these big events.”
Posobiec highlighted the show’s appeal to a broad audience and its connection to American identity rather than the multinational representation of America that Bad Bunny attempted to portray: “This is about the forgotten man and woman. This is about the tens of millions of people out there who just love their country, who just want to watch some football, enjoy a little country music, maybe a little rock music, some of the best music in the world, by the way, the best performers, music that is indelibly associated with who we are as Americans, and yet music that has completely been overlooked and in a sense banned from the Super Bowl for years, for decades. It has been over 20 years since you've had a rock or a country artist at the Super Bowl. Over 20 years. What's going on with that? We know what's going on. It's about shutting down America.”
He recalled previous cancellations and restrictions in mainstream sports entertainment, mentioning Hank Jr.: “Remember, Hank Williams Jr. used to open Monday Night Football…Then he was cancelled. Then everybody is getting cancelled. Cancelled, cancelled, cancelled. Everybody's cancelled. And then until suddenly only Jay-Z approved performers are allowed. Well, you know what? Last night something changed and a message was sent.”
“When you look at the numbers that went up there, so the 25 million that we have, that's just…YouTube and Rumble just from our main streaming channels. The number is going to get bigger because we're still compliant. We're still crunching the numbers. We're looking at 40-50 million total. But what's the most important thing? We stood up for our country. We stood up for our culture. And we stood up for our faith with a proclamation of Jesus Christ as the son of God and king of the universe.”
Earlier on Monday, Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet provided additional context on the viewership:
“I mean, I think there was like a million people before the show even started. And YouTube for just the Turning Point channel alone got as high as 6.17 million live concurrence. If you add that up, we're actually working with a third-party firm right now this morning to find out what sort of a Nielsen equivalent would be for this. But when you add up that live stream, plus Rav's live stream, plus on just YouTube, we're just talking YouTube…if you put those three streams together, I think you already have the number one YouTube stream of all time. We'll see if we were the number one live stream in the history of YouTube. That's not counting Rumble. That's not counting broadcasts. That's not counting all of these other areas.”
Kolvet also projected total audience numbers including group viewings: “So we know for a fact that about 25 million streams last night, which is like amazing. And the way Nielsen does their numbers is they'll usually put a 2.5X on that because they're depending on groups watching together. I had people texting me, you know, parties of 50 watching the game saying, hey, we're tuned into the halftime show…we're talking 40, 50 million people tuned in to Turning Point USA is the all-American halftime show.”
Posobiec credited partners and streaming platforms for the broadcast’s reach:
“Of course, the folks here at Real America's Voice…all of our partners, all of our streamers, the people at Rumble who absolutely stepped it up. You stood in the breach. You did what needed to be done and you became an outlet for people to actually voice their own democratic sense of what they wanted in terms of a halftime show. And they chose this.”
The All-American halftime show marked a landmark moment for Turning Point USA and perhaps streaming as a whole as they now realize they can provide an alternative to the traditional Super Bowl broadcast and draw millions of viewers.
Speaking to his audience on Monday's edition of Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I'm excited to announce that last night, the Turning Point USA All-American Halftime Show became the number one YouTube live stream in America, the number two overall YouTube live stream in all of history, throughout the entire world, and I don't know what to say other than thank you,” Posobiec said Monday.
“I don't know what to say other than this is a turning point. This is a turning point for America. This is a turning point for our culture. This is a moment where patriots around the world came together and said, we want no more. We want no more of what we're getting from the mainstream. We want no more of what we're getting from big corporate America, from these big events.”
Posobiec highlighted the show’s appeal to a broad audience and its connection to American identity rather than the multinational representation of America that Bad Bunny attempted to portray: “This is about the forgotten man and woman. This is about the tens of millions of people out there who just love their country, who just want to watch some football, enjoy a little country music, maybe a little rock music, some of the best music in the world, by the way, the best performers, music that is indelibly associated with who we are as Americans, and yet music that has completely been overlooked and in a sense banned from the Super Bowl for years, for decades. It has been over 20 years since you've had a rock or a country artist at the Super Bowl. Over 20 years. What's going on with that? We know what's going on. It's about shutting down America.”
He recalled previous cancellations and restrictions in mainstream sports entertainment, mentioning Hank Jr.: “Remember, Hank Williams Jr. used to open Monday Night Football…Then he was cancelled. Then everybody is getting cancelled. Cancelled, cancelled, cancelled. Everybody's cancelled. And then until suddenly only Jay-Z approved performers are allowed. Well, you know what? Last night something changed and a message was sent.”
“When you look at the numbers that went up there, so the 25 million that we have, that's just…YouTube and Rumble just from our main streaming channels. The number is going to get bigger because we're still compliant. We're still crunching the numbers. We're looking at 40-50 million total. But what's the most important thing? We stood up for our country. We stood up for our culture. And we stood up for our faith with a proclamation of Jesus Christ as the son of God and king of the universe.”
Earlier on Monday, Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet provided additional context on the viewership:
“I mean, I think there was like a million people before the show even started. And YouTube for just the Turning Point channel alone got as high as 6.17 million live concurrence. If you add that up, we're actually working with a third-party firm right now this morning to find out what sort of a Nielsen equivalent would be for this. But when you add up that live stream, plus Rav's live stream, plus on just YouTube, we're just talking YouTube…if you put those three streams together, I think you already have the number one YouTube stream of all time. We'll see if we were the number one live stream in the history of YouTube. That's not counting Rumble. That's not counting broadcasts. That's not counting all of these other areas.”
Kolvet also projected total audience numbers including group viewings: “So we know for a fact that about 25 million streams last night, which is like amazing. And the way Nielsen does their numbers is they'll usually put a 2.5X on that because they're depending on groups watching together. I had people texting me, you know, parties of 50 watching the game saying, hey, we're tuned into the halftime show…we're talking 40, 50 million people tuned in to Turning Point USA is the all-American halftime show.”
Posobiec credited partners and streaming platforms for the broadcast’s reach:
“Of course, the folks here at Real America's Voice…all of our partners, all of our streamers, the people at Rumble who absolutely stepped it up. You stood in the breach. You did what needed to be done and you became an outlet for people to actually voice their own democratic sense of what they wanted in terms of a halftime show. And they chose this.”
The All-American halftime show marked a landmark moment for Turning Point USA and perhaps streaming as a whole as they now realize they can provide an alternative to the traditional Super Bowl broadcast and draw millions of viewers.
