We’ve seen inaccurate statements from some vendors recently regarding CDN services. Achieving a “50% bitrate reduction” doesn’t mean you can automatically “reduce CDN costs by up to 50%.” Beamr and other vendors promote this idea in press releases, such as the one Beamr issued for a demo at IBC, but it’s clear that many vendors […]
While the live stream of the Super Bowl broadcast receives a lot of media attention due to its high viewership, events that last longer and are delivered in multiple countries around the world have more complex streaming pipelines. Across 30 days, DAZN live-streamed 63 matches of the FIFA Club World Cup for free in 200 […]
FOX has released new technical details on its 2025 Super Bowl stream, including the rebuffer rate (0.5%), percentage of viewership in 4K (28%), peak CDN capacity (135 Tbps), and where it invested in its video workflow architecture. At the 2025 NAB Streaming Summit, Mayur Srinivasan, SVP of Digital Video Platform at Fox Corporation, did a […]
My live blog of the Super Bowl stream is up. Click here to jump to the section with the updates. I’ll compare the video quality, latency and other details from Tubi across Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, LG and Samsung TVs, iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. I’ll also check the streams on YouTube TV, Sling TV, […]
FOX shared with me its encoding bitrate ladder for the Super Bowl, with the max bitrate topping out at close to 15Mbps. FOX will capture the game in 1080p, upscale it to 4K HDR, and digitally distribute it to vMVPDs and FOX’s platform. The 2024 Super Bowl stream on Paramount had an average minute audience […]
Final viewership numbers are out for the NFL’s Christmas day games, with an AMA of 31.3 million global viewership for the Ravens-Texans game, with 24.3 million coming from the US. The number includes Netflix’s stream, CBS local market viewing and NFL+ mobile viewing from NFL. While many will want to compare these numbers to the […]
On Christmas, Netflix said US viewership of its NFL games peaked with the Beyonce Bowl at 27 million viewers. The Ravens-Texans game had 24.3 million AMA, and the Chiefs-Steelers matchup came in at 24.1 million AMA. Global ratings and additional US insights will be released on December 31. The AMA (average minute audience) viewership figures […]