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Love Island 2021 viewing figures, the best yet
Love island has continued to prove its popularity with the 2021 series averaging 3.3 million TV viewers with a 16% share. Across all devices it averaged 4.2 million viewers making it the biggest series on a digital channel since Love Island in 2019 and was up on the 2020 series by 300,000 viewers. ITV Hub’s audience alone was 2.1 million.
The viewing figures for the 16-34 age group are impressive with 1.7 million viewers and a share of 51.8%. It was the second most watched series across all channels second in place to Line of Duty. Love Island won the 9pm slot amongst 16-34s 45 times (excluding Saturday episodes) across its run, only beaten by some Euro matches. Viewing figures in this age group were up 100,000 and 9.8 share points compared to 2020.
These viewer statistics indicate that the popularity of Love island goes from strength to strength and how well this genre of programmes resonates with younger viewer age groups.