60 million households watched the Tyson vs. Paul fight on Netflix

Netflix peaked astatine “65 cardinal concurrent streams” during the boxing lucifer betwixt Mike Tyson and Jake Paul past night, according to Most Valuable Promotions, the promoter for the fight. Those streams went retired to 60 cardinal households globally, the radical said successful a property merchandise shared with The Verge via email. That’s much than twice the traffic Netflix could spot for its Christmas Day NFL watercourse this year.

The crush of radical trying to ticker the lucifer seemed to beryllium much than Netflix’s servers could easy handle, arsenic the societal web was awash with complaints astir the prime of the stream, which galore recovered to beryllium muddy, oregon plagued with buffering and dropped connections. Downdetector recorded much than 100,000 complaints of Netflix streaming issues during the event, according to Bloomberg.

Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone told employees that the institution dealt with this “unprecedented scale” by prioritizing keeping the watercourse unchangeable “for the bulk of viewers,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

“We don’t privation to disregard the mediocre acquisition of immoderate members, and cognize we person country for improvement, but inactive see this lawsuit a immense success,” Stone reportedly wrote.