Netflix reached “65 million concurrent streams” during last night's boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, according to the fight promoter, Most Valuable Promotions. The streams reached 60 million homes globally, the group said in a press release shared The Verge Through email. he is more than that double the traffic Netflix may look for this Christmas Day NFL stream this yearIf everyone who saw last year Streamed it.
This is also a huge number of people streaming the same live event at the same time.
The frenzy of people trying to watch the match was more than Netflix's servers could easily handle, as the social web was overloaded. Complaints about stream qualityWhich many people found dirty, or plagued with buffering and broken connections. DownDetector recorded over 100,000 complaints of Netflix streaming problems during the event. according to bloomberg,
Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone told employees that the company has dealt with this “unprecedented scale” by prioritizing keeping the stream stable “for the majority of viewers.” bloombergMark Gurman.
Stone reportedly wrote, “We do not want to dismiss the poor experience some members had, and know we have room for improvement, but we still consider the event a great success.”