Paramount+ bad main events?

[sdpdude9]

They’ve been pretty poor but at least the price is matching the product now.

 

[Dr Fong]

Yeah. I'm sure they are pissed...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)'s first fight night on Paramount+ achieved an average minute audience of 4.96 million viewers, a new record for a live event on the service. In addition, the UFC 324 broadcast reached 7.18 million households and drew a peak concurrent audience of 5.93 million.

Now post the numbers for the next event.

Of course the first event set a 'new record' - that manipulated, self reported viewership formula can't be directly compared to any other numbers. But it definitely didn't do record viewership.

The UFC always do well on debut on a new platform. Let's see how long it lasts.

 

[prime_lobov]

Yeah. I'm sure they are pissed...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)'s first fight night on Paramount+ achieved an average minute audience of 4.96 million viewers, a new record for a live event on the service. In addition, the UFC 324 broadcast reached 7.18 million households and drew a peak concurrent audience of 5.93 million.

Rookie numbers. PowerSlap does more viewers than the UFC and Super Bowl combined.

 

[HHJ]

They’ve been pretty poor but at least the price is matching the product now.

The main events, I dont think they've been poor. Just that there were def better matchups that could have been made.

I still enjoyed them.

 

[ElLunico]

are they really any more watered down than the final few years of the ESPN era? They seem about the same to me thus far.

Just rtards finding something to complain about lol

 

[ElLunico]

Good news boys, the dogshit is still dogshit.

Enjoy the ads!

As opposed to paying $90 for a card?? Its not like they extending breaks between rounds to 3 mins or dragging out cards to 8 hours to put in ads.. lol the fk yall complaining about?

 

[Natural Order]

As opposed to paying $90 for a card?? Its not like they extending breaks between rounds to 3 mins or dragging out cards to 8 hours to put in ads.. lol the fk yall complaining about?

The price point is now matching the garbage output. Of course it's better that you're not paying $90 for trash lol

 

[sdpdude9]

The main events, I dont think they've been poor. Just that there were def better matchups that could have been made.

I still enjoyed them.

That’s fair. It’s not that the fights were unworthy necessarily but rather they went with the least interesting match ups possible, at least in my opinion.

 

[markys00]

sherdoggers constantly prove themselves on how retarded they are. like 90% of you guys are legit morons.

like you ever debate a leftist? like, they are completely retarded. this is how this feels. sure, things have changed and expanded a little bit, but the ufc has followed the same basic formula for over a decade+. maybe we should return to affliction and see the sport die? you dumbasses hate mma anyway. wahhhhh too many cards.... wahhhhh

 

[mangokush]

The UFC events far in this new Paramount era has been nothing but watered down Apex slop

 

[rakeleaves]

Yeah. I'm sure they are pissed...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)'s first fight night on Paramount+ achieved an average minute audience of 4.96 million viewers, a new record for a live event on the service. In addition, the UFC 324 broadcast reached 7.18 million households and drew a peak concurrent audience of 5.93 million.

He's talking from the fans perspective not from the CEOs perspective. The only reason why it did such good numbers is because the paramount visibilities ty attract tons of new casual viewers who don't know the difference in quality

 

[skylolow]

You have to wonder what the motivation will be going forward. The UFC also isn't bound by PPV numbers, so we could see even weaker PPV cards. They are probably only looking for viewership increase now.

There future media deals and revolving sponsorships are highly based on how well they perform in viewership and attracting new subscribers to the platform. People thinking they can just mail it in, is just on surface bitching and nothing more.

The reality is the new deal changes nothing from the UFC's perspective. There was plenty of shit cards for decades mixed in with good ones. This is nothing new. They need to perform if they ever want to sign another massive deal and there isn't investor in TKO that doesn't want bigger deals in the future.


Now the production side of it with commercials. That could use some work with its timing. But at the same time they are paying the UFC somewhere around 20m to 25M and event. They need to sell the hell out advertising. Now grant it like all streaming services none of it is about one product. It is about attracting new subscribers and retaining subscribers to your platform. If overall your making money, then the UFC cost doesn't matter if it can be justified in your subscriber base.

 

[skylolow]

He's talking from the fans perspective not from the CEOs perspective. The only reason why it did such good numbers is because the paramount visibilities ty attract tons of new casual viewers who don't know the difference in quality

Those casual viewers make more money for everyone over us hard core fans.

The biggest draws in the UFC have rarely ever been the best fighters.

 

[Tweak896]

There future media deals and revolving sponsorships are highly based on how well they perform in viewership and attracting new subscribers to the platform. People thinking they can just mail it in, is just on surface bitching and nothing more.

The reality is the new deal changes nothing from the UFC's perspective. There was plenty of shit cards for decades mixed in with good ones. This is nothing new. They need to perform if they ever want to sign another massive deal and there isn't investor in TKO that doesn't want bigger deals in the future.


Now the production side of it with commercials. That could use some work with its timing. But at the same time they are paying the UFC somewhere around 20m to 25M and event. They need to sell the hell out advertising. Now grant it like all streaming services none of it is about one product. It is about attracting new subscribers and retaining subscribers to your platform. If overall your making money, then the UFC cost doesn't matter if it can be justified in your subscriber base.

Interesting perspective. Honestly I'm clueless how these sort of rights deals work. I think everyone loves the 1 PPV per month or good card equivalent to it, so I don't expect that to change. Still I noticed with ESPN they were shitting out terrible cards, especially toward the end.

If what you say is true that they aren't changing course, then we can expect diluted cards and UFC only working on brand recognition over names. It's a huge mistake to not keep searching for the next name to push to bring casuals in now that the sport is free from the 100$/month cost it was.