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Viewers were talking about Friday night’s boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul — but perhaps not for the reasons Netflix was hoping.
Yes, 27-year-old Paul (YouTuber turned professional boxer) Defeated The 58-year-old Tyson (the former heavyweight champion came out of retirement for this bout) in eight rounds, but the real headline was the dazzling experience for fans watching live on Netflix, with Freezing and temporary storage Apparently it’s common.
Downdetector said the hashtag #NetflixCrash was trending on X Received more than 1 million reports of Netflix releases in 50 countries, including 530,000 reports in the US, with releases peaking around 11pm ET.
“This is the biggest event,” Paul announced after the match. “Over 120 million people are on Netflix. We’re breaking the site.”
Netflix has stumbled into streaming programming before — last year, “Love is Blind” Season 4 aired. Delay of more than an hour. Since then, the streamer has been ramping up its live streaming lineup with the show Golf and Tennis matches, Live talk showsand awards ceremony, Without major issues.
While the streamer only releases selective data about viewership, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman Reports That fight peaked at 65 million concurrent viewers (compared to 1.8 million simultaneous streams for its live roast of Tom Brady), so it’s safe to say the Tyson/Paul bout was the biggest test of Netflix’s live infrastructure yet.
The streamer now has just over a month to make improvements before streaming Two NFL games on Christmas Dayfollowed by WWE Raw in January.
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