Beyoncé to appear on Netflix’s next live sporting event
Beyoncé is set to appear on Netflix’s next live sporting event however, questions are being asked about Netflix’s ability to cope with live events following its stream of the Jake Paul v Mike Tyson boxing match experiencing a number of issues.
Leading up to the Jake Paul v Mike Tyson fight, viewers had to deal with sound outages and buffering of their streams with over 95,000 outages being reported to Netflix. Many fans took to social media to express their frustration.
Netflix has yet to address the problems it faced during the stream but announced that 60 million households watched the Paul v Tyson main event live around the world.Many fans took to social media to express their frustration. #NetflixCrash was trending on X, over one million reports were reported to Downdetector across fifty countries.
Netflix has yet to address the problems it faced during the stream but announced that 60 million households watched the Paul v Tyson main event live around the world.
Netflix has announced Beyoncé will be performing during its coverage of the Houston Texans v Baltimore Ravens NFL, one of the two NFL fixtures scheduled on Christmas Day, with kick off due to start at 4:30pm. . The Houston born singer, will take to the field at NRG Stadium at halftime airing live on Netflix where fans around the world can tune in. It will be the first time Beyonce will be performing tacks from her latest album, Cowboy Carter.
The singer announced the half-time show posts on her socials. Netflix has also teased that Beyoncé is expected to “bring along some special guests” who featured on her latest album release.
It won’t be Beyoncé’s first time starring in a half-time show having headlined the Super Bowl in 2016 alongside Coldplay and Bruno Mars, the most watched half-time show ever.
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Netflix is set to host a variety of live events across 2025. As of January, Netflix will be the exclusive home of the WWE’s weekly wrestling program. This will be the first time in the show’s history that WWE Raw will be available to stream. Craig Basset from Bedford is a passionate WWE fan who was surprised by the news. He said the “WWE Network offered a more personalised experience with specialised features and live streams if Netflix doesn’t continue to replicate those feature or requires you to pay more for them it would make the move to Netflix feel like a step back”.
Following the boxing match, Netflix will be tested as it continues to focus on more live programming.
Ian Waterhouse, the founder of Live Sport Now (https://www.livesportnow.uk/) said: “They are moving into a space that has some big players in with the likes of Sky Sports and ESPN. That means for Netflix to move into live events on a scale that will generate a loyal fan base the price will go up.”
He went on to say: “Netflix are opening themselves up to a whole new audience with live sport. Amazon, Disney, and Netflix are all essentially the same thing but if Netflix can offer quality live sport that people want to see then actually that may put them to the top of the pile.”
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Now all eyes will turn to Christmas Day with fans not wanting to miss the final touchdown.