Fight of the century breaks subs records for beIN Connect in Spain
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Juan Fernandez Gonzalez
| 30 August 2017

As Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor were driving huge audience numbers for traditional TV around the world, beIN Sports’ over-the-top (OTT) platform was breaking records in Spain.

According to the Mediapro-managed streaming service, over 60,000 new users registered for the first time to have access to the boxing match, which was delivered as pay-per-view content.

The transactional video-on-demand (TVOD) fight broke subscription records for the sports-focused OTT service, which had never registered so many signings in a single day.

In addition, the fight was among the most-commented topics on Twitter, as the hashtag #beINElCombate became a trending topic after totalling over 2,700 mentions.

The boxing match, available via streaming, also broke piracy records around the world, Irdeto revealed this week.