Netflix brings Tyson vs. Paul fight to 60 million households

According to the fight’s promoter, Most Valuable Promotions, concurrent streaming on Netflix reached “65 million” during last night’s Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match. These streams were delivered to 60 million households around the world, the organization said in a press release. The Verge via email. That’s all Traffic volume doubles You can watch NFL streams this Christmas on Netflix. Saw it last year I streamed it.

The rush of people trying to watch Tyson vs. Paul was apparently more than Netflix’s servers could easily handle, as they flooded the social web. Complaints about stream qualitymany people find it cloudy or suffer from buffering and dropped connections. Downdetector recorded more than 100,000 complaints about Netflix streaming issues during the event. According to bloomberg.

Netflix Chief Technology Officer Elizabeth Stone told employees that the company responded to this “unprecedented scale” by prioritizing stream stability “for the vast majority of viewers.” It is said that he spoke. bloombergI’m Mark Garman.

“While we do not want to ignore the poor experience of some of our members and know there is room for improvement, we still consider this event to be a great success,” Stone wrote. .

Update for November 16th: Added Disney Plus Hotstar streaming numbers for additional context.