This 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl LVII was the most-streamed Tremendous Bowl but, hitting a mean of seven million streams throughout the providers exhibiting the sport. In response to information Fox Sports activities obtained from Adobe Analytics, Tremendous Bowl streams elevated 18 p.c from final 12 months’s 6 million streams — and 103 p.c over 2020, which noticed simply 3.4 million streams.
The 7 million streams included viewers watching the large recreation on NFL’s TV and cell apps, NFL’s web site, the NFL Plus streaming service, in addition to on Fox’s apps and web site. This information doesn’t account for co-viewing, or when a number of folks watch a stream on the identical gadget, and nonetheless represents a small fraction of the 113 million common viewers the sport raked in on conventional TV.
Along with Fox and NFL Plus, a number of different paid providers with the Fox Sports activities channel streamed the Tremendous Bowl LVII, together with Fubo TV, YouTube TV, Hulu with Stay TV, and DirecTV Stream. Phenix, a platform for real-time video streaming, tracked the latency throughout all of those providers and located that FuboTV suffered from the worst lag (in comparison with the on-field motion) at 76.73 seconds behind the sport. In the meantime, Fox Sports activities got here out on high with 23.76 seconds of lag, adopted by YouTube TV at a distant 54.14.
As extra folks ditch cable, the variety of folks streaming the sport will probably solely improve within the coming years. I, for one, don’t have cable and watched the sport on Fox Sports activities by means of my Xfinity Flex field. Nevertheless, I shortly discovered that the expertise powering the livestreams nonetheless wants rather a lot of work. The standard of the stream wasn’t as much as par with what you’d see on cable and nearly buffered an excessive amount of to look at. I could rethink streaming the sport subsequent 12 months — or at the least see if I can catch the sport at a pal’s home with cable.
