WWE SECOND FOR ALL LIVE STREAMING CONTENT ON INTERNET, WRESTLEMANIA STREAMING TOPPED HULU & AMAZON

With today being exactly two months since the launch of the WWE Network, WWE is already showing results in terms of its power to bring users to live, streaming content. WWE material is now second for all live, streaming Internet content, accounting for 17.7% of all such content. WWE was second only to popular videogame live streaming service Twitch.tv (which hosted last year's Summerslam press conference that featured the well covered Ric Flair antics). WWE fans' streaming of live material outpaced ESPN, Major League Baseball and UStream, among other heavy hitters who handle live streaming.

Even more amazing is that the streaming of Wrestlemania 30, on Sunday 4/7, brought the company online streaming volume that topped Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus that day. WWE ended up third for the day, only behind streaming industry leader Netflix and Youtube.com. WWE's streaming increased over the six hours of live programming (four hour PPV show preceded by the two hour pre-game show) without the other top streaming providers seeing a drop in usage, showing that WWE fans were coming online specifically to stream WWE content.

Data relating to WWE streaming usage was compiled by Qwilt and released yesterday.

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