AEW Dynamite Rating & Viewership Drop From Last Week

The rating and audience for this week’s AEW Dynamite were down from the numbers for last week. Wednesday’s three hour show brought in a 0.09 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 465,000 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers are down 35.7% and 26.7% from last week’s 0.14 demo rating and 634,000 viewers.

Repeating this information from this week’s NXT ratings news:

There is an important caveat in here to be considered for all wrestling ratings going forward. As reported in early September, Nielsen has changed its ratings system to a “Big Data + Panel” method, which combines the ratings measurement company’s traditional home panel-based data with inputs from devices including cable set-top boxes, satellite receivers, and smart TVs. This means that there has been a divergence in some numbers based on which numbers are being used. The Big Data + Panel numbers, for example, had last week’s NXT demo rating at a 0.12 while PWTorch had reported the number at a 0.17.

Wrestlenomics has noted that the new method has mostly resulted in lower viewership among wrestling shows and that telecasts with younger-skewing audiences are generally (but not always) seeing lower measurements under the new system. What this all means is that direct comparisons with previous numbers are messy at best, because it’s using a new system. This includes all ratings for shows airing on traditional TV going forward including WWE NXT and Smackdown, and AEW Dynamite & Collision. With all that in mind, take the below comparisons with a grain of salt.

All that said: the demo rating was the lowest for Dynamite on record, while the audience the lowest since the October 8th, 2024 episode did a 0.08 on Tuesday night opposite NXT As always, these numbers do not include the simulcast on Max.

Dynamite is averaging a 0.159 demo rating and 613,000 viewers in 2025 compared to a 0.245 and 737,000 for the same time period in 2024.