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Four of Young and Restless's ten nearest neighbors are other TV shows — but the other six are consumer brands spanning restaurants, household products, and packaged food, making this one of the more cross-category audience shapes in daytime television.
The shape is broad: scores run from 0.99 down to 0.89 with no sharp drop-off, and the neighbor set reflects that spread. Young & The Restless (0.99) and CBS Daytime (0.93) are the two tightest matches and both share the same subcategory, which is expected. The Price Is Right (0.89) and The Bold & The Beautiful (0.89) round out the TV Shows cluster. But sitting between those TV neighbors are Steak 'n Shake (0.91), Little Debbie (0.90), Captain D's Seafood Restaurant (0.90), Tide (0.90), and Welch's (0.89) — a mix of casual dining, snack brands, a laundry detergent, and a juice brand. Julie Chen Moonves (0.90), a TV personality rather than a show, also lands in this band. The restaurant and packaged-goods neighbors score comparably to the daytime TV neighbors, which means the audience's shape is as legible to those brand categories as it is to the show's own genre peers.
The broad distribution across TV shows, restaurants, household staples, and snack brands signals an audience whose composition is recognizable across a wide range of mainstream consumer categories simultaneously.
