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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Entertainment
Cian O'Broin

Millions of people engaging with RTE Late Late Show social media content as statistics are revealed

Millions of people have been tuning into the social media accounts of the Late Late Show, with the show's Facebook amassing 28 million video views in the last year.

The statistics were released by the Late Late Show's social media lead Jay Hartigan, who decided to take a deep dive into the social figures of Irish television's Friday night staple.

The figures, which look at the period between January 1, 2022 and January 25, 2023, show that the talk show has 170,839 Instagram followers, 263, 433 Facebook followers and 245, 994 Twitter followers.

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Fans have interacted (liked, commented, shared) with the Late Late's Instagram page 1.2 million times, Facebook 1.5 million times and Twitter 255,000 times.

This marked a tripling of its Instagram, a doubling of its Facebook and a 25% increase in its Twitter engagements compared to the previous year.

It was video views where the heavy hitting figures come in with: Instagram 18.88 million (500% increase), Facebook 28.36 million (9% increase) and Twitter 10.98 million (83% increase).

Jay said he was trilled to see the results of the show, which averages 650,000 television viewers per episode, consistently achieving RTÉ's highest ratings.

He also alluded to the show's TikTok account, which is a popular video sharing platform. Figures show it has had close to a million engagements and 7.37 million video views in the last year, as well as added 35,000 extra followers.

"What a buzz it's been," Jay, who is also a DJ in Limerick along with his RTÉ role added.

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