According to the streamer, 108 million people around the globe tuned into watch social media celebrity turned fighter Paul overcome the 58-year-old retired heavyweight champ. Those numbers are derived from Nielsen’s odometer system for U.S. viewership and Netflix’s own measurements for the remainder of the globe. The 108 million figure emerged two days after Netflix reported that 60 million of its member households around the globe (one in every five) viewed the bout, with as many as 65 million at one time.
Before the Paul-Tyson fight, a title fight between women’s super lightweight champion Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano generated 74 million viewers globally with 47 million viewers in the United States from the average minute audience, sourced from TVision. That I believe would make the Taylor- Serrano fight the most viewed professional women’s sporting event in the United States history.
Measuring with Netflix’s customary mil Viewership (total views divided by total time), the full event garnered 46.6M from Friday through Sunday the largest number to date gathered by any Netflix live standby over that period.
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All those viewers turned up though forced to endure through a shaky live telecast where hundreds of viewers said they experienced heavy buffering and barely audible audio during the bouts.
The Paul-Tyson fight was the most viewed event streamed online ever, although it ranks behind several other spectacular global sports broadcasts (although exact global viewership statistics are hard to come by).
February’s Super Bowl LVIII was aired to approximately 186 million people around the world (123.7m from the U.S according to the NFL) while soccer’s governing body FIFA reported that over one billion viewers tuned in to watch the 2022 men’s World Cup final between Argentina and France.
A dated heavyweight bout between Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua in 2017 attracted an international audience above nine figures and might have reached 500 million viewers.
A live version of the event aired on Netflix last Friday, November 15 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas and had a complete turnout of 72,300 total views for the fight card. In home, reach was at 65 million households tuning in around the globe, while 38 million concurrent streams were registered in the United States alone.
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