<P> Dragon Ball Z was listed as the 78th best animated show in IGN's "Top 100 Animated Series", and was also listed as the 50th greatest animated shows in Wizard magazine's "Top 100 Greatest Animated shows" list . The series ranked #6 on Wizard's Anime Magazine on their "Top 50 Anime released in North America". </P> <P> Dragon Ball Z's popularity is reflected through a variety of data through online interactions which show the popularity of the media . In 2001, it was reported that the official website of Dragon Ball Z recorded 4.7 million hits per day and included 500,000 + registered fans . The term "Dragonball Z" ranked 4th in 1999 and 2nd in 2000 by Lycos' web search engine . For 2001, "Dragonball" was the most popular search on Lycos and "Dragonball Z" was fifth on Yahoo! . </P> <P> In 2015, Ford Motor Company released two commercials featuring characters from the series, the first advertising the Ford Fusion and the second for the Ford Focus . </P> <P> Dragon Ball Z's Japanese run was very popular with an average viewer ratings of 20.5% across the series . Dragon Ball Z also proved to be a rating success in the United States, as the premiere of Season Three of Dragon Ball Z in 1999, done by Funimation's in - house dub, was the highest - rated program ever at the time on Cartoon Network . In 2002, in the week ending September 22, Dragon Ball Z was the #1 program of the week on all of television with tweens 9 - 14, boys 9 - 14 and men 12 - 24, with the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday telecasts of Dragon Ball Z ranked as the top three programs in all of television, broadcast or cable, for delivery of boys 9 - 14 . In 2001, Cartoon Network obtained licensing to run 96 more episodes and air the original Dragon Ball anime and was the top rated show in the Toonami block of Cartoon network . Beginning March 26, 2001, Cartoon Network ran a 12 - week special promotion "Toonami Reactor" which included a focus on Dragon Ball Z, which would stream episodes online to high - speed internet users . Many home video releases were met with both the edited and unedited versions placing on in the top 10 video charts of Billboard . For example, "The Dark Prince Returns" (containing episodes 226 - 228) and "Rivals" (containing episodes 229 - 231) edited and unedited, made the Billboard magazine top video list for October 20, 2001 . </P>

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