{"id":129700,"date":"2025-09-08T21:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129700\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:45:09","slug":"youtubes-first-ever-nfl-broadcast-pulls-in-17m-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129700\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&#8217;s first-ever NFL broadcast pulls in 17M viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 8 (UPI) &#8212; YouTube said Monday its first-ever exclusive broadcast of an NFL game was a &#8220;huge&#8221; success that saw tens of millions of global viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming platform&#8217;s live NFL broadcast from Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday &#8212; featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers &#8212; set a record at more than 17 million viewers for most concurrent viewers of a YouTube live stream, the company said <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/chiefs-vs-chargers-recap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in a release;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in a release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to YouTube, the NFL game drew a global audience of more than 17.3 million average-minute-audience from more than 230 nations and territories.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube partnered with the NFL to bring a &#8220;uniquely interactive and creator-driven viewing experience&#8221; that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/Music\/2025\/08\/14\/halftime-show-youtube-broadcast-karol-g\/4201755195974\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:saw a halftime show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">saw a halftime show<\/a> from Karol G, company officials stated.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, YouTube officials expressed their delight with the results and wished viewers a &#8220;Happy NFL Season&#8221; ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to all 17 million of you who tuned in for this game-changing moment on YouTube,&#8221; the streaming giant said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 8 (UPI) &#8212; YouTube said Monday its first-ever exclusive broadcast of an NFL game was a &#8220;huge&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,71075,71076,71074,1727,2210,514,82,4718],"class_list":["post-129700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-concurrent-viewers","tag-global-audience","tag-global-viewers","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}