Comments Thread For: DAZN: Canelo-Jacobs Fight Watched By 1.2 Million Worldwide

[Eff Pandas]

That was under the old model.

Sure, but I assume it translates to the new market cuz its the same problem accounting for it.

[The Big Dunn]

You do realize this just who watched it live right? So you think NOBODY who is subscribed to DAZN either for another sport other then boxing? or just had shyt to do and didn't watch live? So you think every subscriber watched live? I watched it at friend's house who had a party for the fight so I'm a subscriber but not live viewer. You also have people who subscribe to DAZN for MLB Baseball or for Bellator. What if you are subscriber but just wanted to watch the fight at the bar?

No, I don't think Bellator, the minor league of MMA, or soccer drives a large number of sales in the US. I don't think an MLB highlight show does either.

I am asking how you think this projects to 1 mil us subscribers. Of all the people that purchased the day of, there is undoubtedly those who canceled the service (like the person whose house I went to).

I guess we will find out. Again, nothing I have seen suggests they have hit that number in the USA.

[The Big Dunn]

No, I didn't say Canelo is moving the needle....I'm talking about going from 300-400k subscribers to a million...Canelo isn't moving the needle quite like that.

The story says US viewership for peaked at 600,000, so that’s a strong indication of what the subscriber base is near, industry sources say.

— Lance Pugmire (@latimespugmire)

So looks like Pugmire is hearing they have around 600,000 subscribers. That sounds more accurate than them hitting a million after this fight.

thanks for this. then maybe pillowfists has a point that a large % of subscribers also viewed it .

[KTFOKING]

No, I don't think Bellator, the minor league of MMA, or soccer drives a large number of sales in the US. I don't think an MLB highlight show does either.

I am asking how you think this projects to 1 mil us subscribers. Of all the people that purchased the day of, there is undoubtedly those who canceled the service (like the person whose house I went to).

I guess we will find out. Again, nothing I have seen suggests they have hit that number in the USA.

Yeah, I'm not saying there is any chance of it hitting a million, but nothing about the numbers released here indicates DAZN has a million subscribers.

Pugmire seems to think they have 600k subscribers or around there. That is probably closer to the truth than a million.

[bigdunny1]

"Definitely" seems like a overstep, maybe "they likely" would be better, cuz if 600k of the 700k peak were US that 85.7% US viewers percentage translated to that 1.2M overall number = over 1M. So idk about definitely, but probably or most likely seems more reasonable.

fine not definitely but more likely. be logical folks just because you subscribe to DAZN don't mean you watched it live. There are many reason why you could of missed it live or you are a subscriber for one of the many other sports DAZN has. If you into MMA and have DAZN just for Bellator you might not even care about Canelo fights or boxing. Same if you like MLB, etc. And what if you have DAZN for boxing but hate Canelo? What if you had a wedding on saturday? Like there are millions of reason why you could be a subscriber of DAZN but didn't watch the fight live. Hell I got HBOGO for Game of Thrones I don't always watch the new episode at exactly the live time. Some time I start that bytch 1hr or 2hrs later. So what if you have DAZN but started watching the fight 1hr after instead of live. Like shyt come on folks it's foolish to think 100% of DAZN subscribers all love boxing only have DAZN for boxing and all streamed live. It don't work that way. They have too many other sports they carry and people don't always watch live.

[Oldskoolg]

For dazn to put the numbers out there it must be a success for them in some form or fashion even if it’s just “better than what we are used to?.....it’s is very clear that Canelo Alvarez is the driving force for dazn.

[Eff Pandas]

So looks like Pugmire is hearing they have around 600,000 subscribers. That sounds more accurate than them hitting a million after this fight.

No thats just peak US subs. The overall worldwide was 1.2M. They didn't say how many of the overall is US doe.

But sure the bottom would be 600k one could assume off of this news. Main thing with considering that the bottom doe is how many of those subs are gone after this month? Who f#cking knows.

If we can assume the 4M-ish number legit from a week or two for their worldwide numbers & 1.2M watched some part of Canelo vs Jacobs that would mean that the fight had 30% of all DAZN subs worldwide who watched the fight. That actually seems pretty f#cking high to me considering time differences, but maybe not idk.

[The Problem Child]

Out of those 600,000 subscribers, 597,000 cancelled the next day and around 569,000 attempted to get a refund. Boxing fans are the cheapest fanbase in sports lol

[kafkod]

How much was it to watch it on Skysport mate?

It wasn't PPV on Sky, just included as part of the Sky Sports main menu.

[Eff Pandas]

fine not definitely but more likely. be logical folks just because you subscribe to DAZN don't mean you watched it live.

Agree I mentioned that earlier in this thread.

They need to come up with a new way to compile ratings besides live viewership with the rise of streaming content.