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Neighbours tops UK search results
Aussie soap was the most-searched show in the UK according to Yahoo.
- Published by David Knox
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We know the Brits love their soaps and even in a year when Coronation Street turned 60, it was Neighbours that topped a list of shows searched on Yahoo UK.
I suspect much of that has to do with Channel 5 pulling episodes back during the pandemic (ironic given it was Neighbours that came up with a model to continue production).
Here’s how Yahoo UK reported 2020 search results.
- Neighbours
- Des
- The Masked Singer
- Killing Eve
- Love Island
- This Morning
- Strictly Come Dancing
- Eastenders
- Emmerdale
- Coronation Street
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9 Responses
Apparently channel ten makes a tidy profit from the show in Britain. Probably why they keep it going as it does not rate that well in Australia.
Fremantle owns the show.
>> Therefore search results from Google would likely be fairly similar, this is how statistics work. <<
David – that is simply incorrect – on every level. Please refer to the Google data for the UK as confirmation.
trends.google.com/trends/yis/2020/GB/
TV Shows
1) Love Island
2) Dennis Nilsen
3) White House Farm
4) Normal People
5) The Stranger
6) Tiger King
7) The Fall
8) Christine Keeler
9) The Undoing
10) Gangs Of London
It would depend on sampling sizes. Interestingly even that Google page is contradicted by Google itself too here which puts I’m A Celeb at top of shows searched behind Coronavirus.
>> It would depend on sampling sizes. <<
And demographics.
Pretty impressive that Neighbours still came on top. As suggested, its probably more negative than positive (re pulling some episodes off air). But nonetheless, well done Neighbours.
Wouldn’t read too much into this – it’s a poll of people who couldn’t find Google.
Here’s why I disagree. Given it’s Yahoo we would expect the sample group to have been quite high, as opposed to say just a site of soapie fans. Therefore search results from Google would likely be fairly similar, this is how statistics work. What we don’t know is how to quantify it: were they searching out of love for the show, frustration with programming? Probably both.
Or for information on their actual Neighbours.