When you subscribe to Netflix, or any subscription service, you usually do it to see the trunk of content such as series and movies from years ago, and what's new. But there is a trend towards more content being consumed live, since they are what television stations demand the most when it comes to putting content on their schedules, since they condition contracts.
Now why? Because the idea is that it is content that one cannot miss due to the so-called spoilers. And it is not for less, since sporting events are being established in subscription services, such as Peacock has bought WWE live events and its content trunk on its Peacock platform for a billion dollars, and that the recent drop in Disney+ subscribers is due to the fact that they lost the rights to broadcast cricket in India. With that, it is understood that want to offer live content on Netflix.
Even Netflix is aiming to offer live sports content
The streaming service confirmed that a live celebrity golf tournament is coming to Netflix in November. That will be the first broadcast they will do live. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the live sporting event last month.
Nothing else was shared about the event, including a specific release date, title, or who would be participating. Sarandos confirmed that the live sporting event will feature personalities from two Netflix docuseries, "Formula 1: Drive to Survive" Y "full swing«. He also reiterated that the tournament is just an experiment and that it doesn't mean they're going to make a series of it. It also doesn't mean they're going to bet heavily on live sport, because They will only do it if it brings them significant benefits..
We really believe that we can have a really strong offering for sports fans on Netflix without having to be part of the hardship of the economic model of live sports licences.
Sarandos
With this, it can be intuited that they at least want to test the technology, and see if there are people who would be interested in it. But it has against you with that perhaps golf is not what interests your public the most, and that will depend a lot on what celebrities they are. An example of this is the series of events The Evening of the Year from Ibai Llanos, that although not many people are interested in boxing, the fact of seeing well-known streamers and youtubers in something outside their usual environment and creating a narrative of confrontations, is what made the Civitas Metropolitano eastadium fill up weeks ago.
