The figures are based on US audience counts from analytics company TVision and Netflix’s own data for the rest of the world.
Netflix claims to have reached a nine-figure global audience in the broadcast of the fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tysonon November 15th.
The streaming platform states that 108 million people around the world watched social media star turned boxer Paul defeat the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion. Those figures are based on US audience counts from analytics company TVision and Netflix’s own data for the rest of the world. The 108 million figure comes two days after Netflix said 60 million of its member households worldwide (about one in five subscription holders) watched the fight, with a peak of 65 million simultaneous streams.
Before the Paul-Tyson fight, a title fight between the super lightweight champion Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano (Taylor won by a controversial unanimous decision) attracted 74 million viewers worldwide, with 47 million viewers in the United States, based on average viewership per minute (the closest analog broadcast measurement to linear television) TVision. That would make the Taylor-Serrano fight the most-watched women’s professional sporting event in US history.
In Netflix’s standard views metric (total views divided by runtime), the entire event racked up 46.6 million from Friday through Sunday, easily the largest total to date for a Netflix live performance during that time. period of time.
What are the most watched sporting events in history?
The Paul-Tyson fight was the most streamed sporting event in history, but it lags behind other major global sports broadcasts (although global viewing figures are not entirely clear).
The NFL said the Super Bowl LVIII February had a global audience of around 186 million people, FIFA stated that more than one billion watched the 2022 World Cup final between Argentina and France. A 2017 heavyweight fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua It also claimed a nine-figure audience worldwide, with estimates of up to 500 million viewers.
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