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 […]
Facts matter, except apparently in the aftermath of Netflix’s boxing event. This was Netflix’s 8th 9th live event (open to correction), not their first. Everyone is an expert in CDN and can “fix” Netflix’s live streaming, even though they don’t know the problems. Multiple vendors claim their cloud/edge/P2P/”insert anything here” solution could have solved the […]
[The short URL for this blog post is cdnmarket.com] The market for third-party CDN services, which I define as the delivery of video and small and large objects, was about $5 billion in 2023, which I break down in detail below. This figure does not include revenue for services tied to security (WAF, DDoS, etc.), […]
2024 marks the thirteenth year of broadcast networks streaming the Super Bowl. While many viewership numbers are compared to one another each year, there are a lot of variables between the games. In the early years, broadcast networks used the metric of simultaneous streams or current streams when reporting numbers, but as an industry, we […]
I’ve highlighted some interesting numbers and takeaways from Akamai’s Q4 and full-year 2023 earnings for those tracking the CDN industry. At times, I hear some people suggest Akamai isn’t really in the CDN market anymore, which could not be further from the truth. The company still dominates the overall industry and is the largest player […]