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How Netflix took on live TV — and got ready to take on the NFL
It’s not just a fight and two football games. Netflix is dead serious about live TV.
Then there was a live feed of baby gorillas at the Cleveland Zoo, a strange golf event that teamed Formula 1 drivers up with PGA pros, the SAG Awards, a tennis exhibition, a roast of Tom Brady, and John Mulaney’s slightly unhinged late night show Everybody’s in LA. First, the Jake Paul / Mike Tyson fight in November, which the company says was watched by more than 65 million Netflix subscribers around the world — and had lots of technical difficulties and delays of its own. It’s a huge traffic burden just to have tens of millions of people flipping through the app at the same time, but AWS scales pretty well and Stone says that part of Netflix held up even during the fight.
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