Above the Fold: How Peacock Owned the Streaming Home Screen During the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics

Above the Fold analysis by Marion Ranchet examines platform-level merchandising during Peacock’s “Legendary February”

Above the Fold: How Peacock Owned the Streaming Home Screen During the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics

Streaming Made Easy features Looper Insights in its Above the Fold analysis by Marion Ranchet of Peacock’s February campaign, examining how home screen placement drove visibility during a major live sports window.

The piece introduces Above the Fold, a new column produced by Streaming Made Easy in partnership with Looper Insights, focused on who owns the streaming home screen, how they got there, and what that visibility is worth.

The article explores how Peacock and NBCUniversal executed coordinated merchandising strategies across connected TV platforms around “Legendary February” – anchored by the Super Bowl and the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics – using premium placements, live signposting, and event-driven creative to capture audience attention at scale. Looper Insights data quantifies the value of these placements, linking visibility directly to performance outcomes.

Coverage highlights how the home screen has evolved into a competitive marketplace, where paid and strategic placement increasingly determines discovery, reinforcing the growing importance of merchandising infrastructure in streaming success.

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How Peacock owned the Home Screen in February