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‘WWE RAW’ Hits 4.9 Million Global Views for Netflix Debut

The show averaged 2.6 million households in the United States, up 116 percent from its average 2024 audience of 1.2 million households while it still aired on USA Network.

WWE’s flagship program isn’t worried about moving off linear television, as the company reported WWE RAW reached 4.9 million global views during its Netflix debut on Monday night. The show averaged 2.6 million households in the United States, up 116 percent from its average 2024 audience of 1.2 million households while it still aired on USA Network.

The latest figure was higher than any RAW broadcast from the past five years. Note that these figures do not include viewing in 92 countries/territories where Netflix doesn’t yet distribute WWE, which includes France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea.

The event was also the highest-grossing WWE arena event of all time. It was a sold-out live show airing from Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome, the new home of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers. The company also boasted that #WWERaw trended at number one on X in the United States, Brazil, Australia, and the UK, where it stayed at the top spot for 14 hours straight. The show also occupied six of the top seven trending topics in the U.S.

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Almost one year ago, WWE and Netflix agreed to a monumental 10-year, $5 billion deal that would move RAW off of linear television for the first time in its history to stream exclusively on the digital platform. As part of its new rights deals, SmackDown would move to USA Network, while NXT would move to The CW.

A report from Sports Business Journal divulged that WWE and Netflix are not using U.S.-based Nielsen data, citing differences in measurements. WWE and Netflix define “views” as the “total view hours for the program divided for the runtime.” Data from VideoAmp indicates that WWE RAW reached 2.76 million U.S. homes, higher than any broadcast of the property in the last five years.

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