The San Francisco-Arizona game has set a new stage for online games
Saturday’s game between The San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals set a record with the largest audience for an online NFL game.
The duel aired mainly on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch. It was watched by about 11.2 million people in total and recorded an average audience per minute of 4.8 million, more than double the previous recording..
In 2015, a game between Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars in London had an average of 2.1 million viewers streaming on Yahoo!
The NFL and Amazon reported that the total average duration was 82 minutes, 15 more than the average for an NFL online game.
The game, won by San Francisco 20-12, was also broadcast on television channels in that city and in Phoenix, with an average of 1.1 million viewers.
Also, The match was available on NFL, Cardinals and Niners mobile apps. During the duel, some remarks about the quality of the broadcast in the first half appeared on social networks.
Other people were frustrated that they did not know where the game would be broadcast.
This is the first of three years in an agreement between the NFL and Amazon. It also includes the rights to broadcast Thursday night games, also available on Fox and the NFL Network.