About 65 million mixed viewers watched a pair of NFL video games on Netflix on Christmas Day to set streaming information.
The matchup between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers scored a median of 24.1 million viewers, and the Baltimore Ravens’ win over the Houston Texans averaged 24.3 million viewers, making the video games probably the most streamed NFL video games in U.S. historical past, in line with Nielsen, the NFL mentioned in a statement Thursday.
Viewership for Ravens-Texans spiked with the “Beyonce Bowl” — the much-hyped Beyoncé efficiency at halftime — with greater than 27 million viewers, Netflix said Thursday in a statement.
The NFL mentioned it was thrilled with the Christmas Day numbers.
“Followers in all 50 states and over 200 nations around the globe watched among the league’s brightest stars together with a blinding efficiency by Beyoncé in a historic day for the NFL,” Hans Schroeder, the NFL’s govt vice chairman of media distribution, mentioned within the Netflix assertion.
Netflix and the NFL have a three-season partnership to broadcast Christmas video games, Netflix mentioned.
Although the vacation soccer matchups — which have been regular-season video games — set streaming information, they have been removed from the most important sporting occasion on Netflix in current weeks. Final month, it broadcast a boxing match between 58-year-old legendary champion Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. More than 60 million tuned in for the struggle.
And the way did the Christmas Day viewership stack as much as the most important recreation of the yr, the Tremendous Bowl? Final season’s championship recreation between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers drew 123.4 million viewers. It was proven on CBS, the NFL Community, Univision, Paramount+, NFL+ and ViX, a Spanish-language streaming service.
CBS said the game was the most-watched telecast in history, beating the 2023 Tremendous Bowl between the Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, which nabbed 115 million whole viewers.
Antonio Planas is a breaking information reporter for NBC Information Digital.
