Netflix says more than 200 countries tuned into the "Beyoncé Bowl" and its two NFL games. We may just be starting to learn what that ultimately means for the future of television and sports media.
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Did your reporter, Mr. Deggans, or any editorial staff actually do any work to verify this claim by Netflix?
Or is NPR simply in the business of repeating PR blasts for large companies verbatim now? What part of this is journalism? It reads like an unwanted ad in my mailbox.
The old three network model died years ago. Cable has kept them on life support. More options means more ways to watch all the teams you love not just those in your market. The NFL is about globalizing its brand. They will embrace this as a viewership boon and move forward. #NFL #Netflix
Agreed. Many don't realize how global the game has become, and refusing to embrace change is why we don't have Blockbuster Video stores anymore. I applaud what the NFL and Netflix are doing.
Well, if you sum Canada 13 provinces, Mexico 32 states, USA 50 states, Europe 44 countries, Central and South America 30 countries and Asia 48 countries, there you have it.
I'm not subscribing to Netflix to watch football. Both games were replayed last night on the NFL station. Including Beyounce's halftime show. Neither game was any good. Especially the Ravens/Texans game.
Who’s your provider and where in country are you? That may have had something to do with it vs on Netflix end. I’m in CA w Comcast & it didn’t blink (shockingly) but was straight 🗑️ during the Tyson cash grab.
Everything on Netflix comes in perfectly. Just the games were both very bad resolution. When the game was rebroadcast on NFL network, it was very clear. Same network, same equipment, just different broadcasts.
I had a minor resolution drop early on the first game for roughly 30 seconds. That aside both games streamed pretty good which is a huge improvement over the last several Netflix live streams I've experienced (the Brady roast and Tyson fight both we're bad).
30 sec here, 10 there etc and now you got a built in 1-2 min buffer time and few the wiser. Especially in football where you already have more dead time built in vs boxing/basketball/MMA etc
That tracks w/what I’ve seen posted most other places. Early hit then fine; TBH I wouldn’t be shocked if the NFL/Netflix did a bit more than normal of the 5 second delay for that reason. Cause unless you got someone IN stadium also watching on their phone, who would know.
Agreed. No issues whatsoever in Japan. In fact, although the games weren't in 4K like some Netflix content, the HD resolution and streaming quality were much better than DAZN's NFL coverage.
The United Nations recognises 193 member states and 2 independent nations, and one of those is getting bombed to fuck so there's no way they were watching a propaganda broadcast from the US. Care to try again, the next answer could get you double points!
Boy lots of people big mad. Idk why. She is a good artist. Something about “not being real country.” Does this have anything to do with the fact her name isn’t Hayleigh and she didn’t grow up in Mississippi?
I loved every minute of it! (American living in Japan btw)
Overseas fans can already watch games on DAZN with NFL Game Pass or through channel subscriptions on Amazon Prime Video, but I think Netflix did a much better job with presentation and global fan engagement. No buffering issues at all!
Yet I thought I read they averaged 24 million viewers, which was down from the average of 29 million on last years Christmas Day games. Guess the Faroe Islands didn’t make the difference they thought?
So glad I dumped Netflix when they announced getting into live broadcast sports. It's not what want my increasing fees buying...you're supposed to be making movies and series.
I hated the games on Netflix. If you shut game off when you went back on tv, it would not allow you to go live. It kept saying resume watching so you were a quarter behind. Netflix chat line was useless.
I agree - the televised games shouldn’t be on a streaming service; plus it’s another ripoff for local fans who can’t afford the jacked ticket prices due to “legal scalping”.
The other countries only wanted to see Beyoncé, because American Football (= American Rugby) nobody else played around the world. Real Football is watched or played outside of USA.
Or, people just had it on in the background during their party. It’s not much of win when you place NFL games on a streaming platform that people already subscribe to.
All I ask is they make sports an add on, so I can have it without sports. Sports is a lot of the reason cable became so expensive. ESPN is estimated to add 10-20 usd to cable, which sucks, when you don’t watch espn, fox sports and so on.
Now we know Netflix lies and MSM not challenging corporate sponsors.
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Better headline:
'Netflix claims over 200 countries watched NFL but there are only 195 in entire world"
I’m amazed that those of you complaining don’t pay for Dish or cable. I thought I was one of the very few who don’t. I pay for three streaming services that is less expensive by far!
I refused to buy into Netflix or Prime! Ive been watching football since the fearsome foursome purple people eaters mean Joe Green! For FREE if it can’t, so be it. Games played in stadiums taxpayers paid for, named for corporations we hate who now insist we pay for what was free! Go fuck yourselves!
Exactly and yes the game is not what it once was! Its too sterile! Perfect field, no mud plays by head set instead of backs running it it! Yeah we had it good! I sat in portable bleachers LA Coliseum for Rams 63-70!
Most likely they’ve done what every big tech company has done is run a countries report, and then confused the iso-3166 country codes as listing only countries. The 259 items include the 193 sovereign states, but also includes regions as seperate codes even though their sovereignty is not distinct.
Eg Australia’s Christmas Is, Cocos Is, Heard and MacDonald Is, and Norfolk Is all have seperate codes, even though they are all Australia.
The US has 6 codes in addition to their own, and the UK around 12 extras.
Always cause confusion in reporting, and features like geo locking that uses 3166.
Thanks everyone for explaining the vagaries of the criteria for determining a modern state. Really useful information that I totally did not know and absolutely needed explained to me. Netflix for sure was just confused or using some bespoke methodology and not at all just inflating their numbers.
Well let’s see, there is America, South America (Mexico). North America (Canada) Quebec, the North Pole. Brazil (owned by Portugal, so doesn’t count). Russia, Prussia, Germany, Permany, France, Pance. England, United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, uhh Italy, Swissland. Djabouti. And many more!
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the only way to you above 200 is to count autonomous regions (e.g. Greenland) as a separate "country"
and no way can you get netflix in 200 of them
Or is NPR simply in the business of repeating PR blasts for large companies verbatim now? What part of this is journalism? It reads like an unwanted ad in my mailbox.
Also, it's arguable that there aren't even 200 countries in the world.
https://www.thoughtco.com/number-of-countries-in-the-world-1433445
We have officially regressed as a nation
Overseas fans can already watch games on DAZN with NFL Game Pass or through channel subscriptions on Amazon Prime Video, but I think Netflix did a much better job with presentation and global fan engagement. No buffering issues at all!
And likely Baltimore vs Houston had it been a Sunday afternoon game very few markets outside of those two areas would have carried it.
Don’t bother looking it up. Just let it fly.
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Better headline:
'Netflix claims over 200 countries watched NFL but there are only 195 in entire world"
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-many-countries-are-there
https://youtu.be/3nB688xBYdY?si=yduLe8e-JkCRG6k1
The US has 6 codes in addition to their own, and the UK around 12 extras.
Always cause confusion in reporting, and features like geo locking that uses 3166.