Last night was a fun fight card, but it was a total embarrassment for Netlix. Imagine the meeting they're having with the NFL today. NFL: fury. Netflix: flop sweat. They have only 38 days before Christmas to fix this, and way more people watch the NFL on holidays than watched that fight last night. - ThreadSky

gruber.foo • 125 days ago

Last night was a fun fight card, but it was a total embarrassment for Netlix.

Imagine the meeting they're having with the NFL today. NFL: fury. Netflix: flop sweat. They have only 38 days before Christmas to fix this, and way more people watch the NFL on holidays than watched that fight last night.

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omid.pizza•124 days ago

You might be underestimating the popularity of the fight. Over 60 million households streamed it, estimated to be double of what is expected for Xmas day football.

gruber.foo•123 days ago

I definitely underestimated the audience. Glad to be wrong — it was a great fight night. Wrote about it today:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/17/netflix-tyson-paul

omid.pizza•123 days ago

I had a hunch it was massive when both my in-laws (65+) and niece and nephew (10 and 11) were all talking about it independent of one another

gfrast.bsky.social•122 days ago

Aren't you kind of mixing up 65 million households watching the fight worldwide with 120 million viewers of the superbowl in the US only? (another 62 million viewers internationally) P.S.: I've heard the fight wasn't a good streaming experience in Europe as well.

warnercrocker.bsky.social•125 days ago

Yup.

conroy.org•125 days ago

boxing aside, the stream was awful. How do they not have a “skip to live” button?

davjarmo.bsky.social•124 days ago

They have it, you just had to go into the status bar like you fast forwarding and it popped up. I only know this because I had to try and reconnect about 700 times and that was the “best” method.

soulonfirepj.bsky.social•124 days ago

I’m sure the IT guys warn them and they decided to ignore….

willdaddy.bsky.social•124 days ago

By far the worst sports streaming I’ve ever seen, and I’ve used some less than legal streaming options for content I wouldn’t be able to get in the US

gruber.foo•125 days ago

If you're not a boxing fan, it's actually pretty common, alas, for a super-hyped main event to be at least a bit of a letdown, but for all or most of the undercard fights to be exciting as hell — which is exactly what happened last night.

kylemitchell.co•125 days ago

The Taylor Serrano fight was great.

rmogull.com•124 days ago

My friends and I pooled together a lot of money to watch a lot of 1-3 round main events back in the Tyson era.

We are well experienced at coping :)

spasticthumb.bsky.social•124 days ago

Would not want to be them today

shawnchittle.bsky.social•125 days ago

Hey John I think Netflix uses AWS right? Makes one wonder if it was Netflix cloud config issues or AWS service issues or a combination? Just curious what you think.

gruber.foo•123 days ago

I know almost nothing about their cloud stack. My assumption is they try to keep it as a secret sauce. But streaming a live event to 10s of millions of simultaneous viewers is very different from serving standard Netflix fare to even 100s of millions of devices.

shawnchittle.bsky.social•123 days ago

Sure is!

michael.singletary.org•124 days ago

I had a surprisingly good experience with it last night. Tuned in on my Apple TV 4K at 8pm and it never stopped, buffered, or lost quality. Just an overall great stream.

sleepysok.bsky.social•125 days ago

I like that you called it Netlix. My sentiments.

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