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Restaurants, discount retailers, and packaged-food brands make up the bulk of Young & The Restless's nearest audience neighbors — a cross-kind pattern that dominates even the top positions. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 1.0 signals near-identical audience shape.
The two strongest neighbors are both TV Shows: Young and Restless at 0.99 and CBS Daytime at 0.93 — the show's own CBS ecosystem pulling tightest. But from position three onward, the neighbor set shifts almost entirely away from television. Steak 'n Shake (0.92) and Little Debbie (0.91) are the third and fourth closest matches, followed by TV Personalities Dr. Phil (0.91) and Julie Chen Moonves (0.91). Captain D's Seafood Restaurant (0.90), Dollar General (0.90), The Price Is Right (0.89), and The Bold & The Beautiful (0.89) round out the top ten.
Tallying the full top 10 by subcategory: four are TV Shows, two are TV Personalities, two are Restaurants, one is Sweets, and one is Casual Dining. That's six non-TV-Show neighbors in the top ten alone, and the broader neighbor set extends deep into restaurants, grocery and superstore brands, home goods, and food — a wide consumer-brand footprint that no single category owns. The shape is genuinely broad: scores run from 0.99 down to 0.89 across ten neighbors with no sharp drop-off.
This audience shape suggests a viewer base whose consumer overlap spans everyday dining and value retail as much as it does daytime television.
