Australian children's series Bluey has once again topped the US streaming charts for the second year running, holding on to its spot as the most watched show of 2025 and beating Netflix's Stranger Things.
The animated show logged 45.2 billion minutes of viewing across the US on Disney+ over the year, according to year-end viewing data released by Nielsen on Thursday, making it the most-watched title of any genre for the second year running. Bluey achieved this total with a catalogue of just 154 episodes, most of which are under 10 minutes long.
The beloved Australian children's programme about a family of heeler dogs became a worldwide phenomenon after the release of its first season in 2018, often winning praise for its refreshing and emotional storytelling, which has been known to reduce parents to tears. The series wrapped its third season in April 2024, with a special 28-minute episode. A feature-length film has been announced, to be released in theatres in 2027.
Netflix's science-fiction drama Stranger Things, which released its fifth and final season in 2025, emerged as the most watched original series of the year with just under 40 billion minutes streamed, but remained behind Bluey in the overall rankings. ABC's long-running medical drama Grey's Anatomy took second place with 40.92 billion minutes of viewing on Netflix and Hulu, and Stranger Things came in third overall.
According to Nielsen, total streaming consumption in the US reached 16.7 trillion minutes in 2025, a 19 per cent increase from the previous year and the highest annual total on record. Nine of the top 10 list was made up largely by long-running network series with large back catalogues and animated shows rather than streaming originals.
