Kayo Sports heralds record live streaming viewership at midpoint of winter seasons

Sports streaming service Kayo Sports is enjoying a year of record live viewership numbers as the winter codes reach the midpoint of their seasons.

Kayo Sports is on track for a record year of winter sport, achieving record live viewing at the midpoint of the AFL, NRL, Super Netball and Formula One seasons.

Nearly half a million people on average are tuning in to Kayo for regular season rounds and the sports streamer reaching its highest number of paying subscribers – 1.5 million and growing.

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Other Foxtel Group audience highlights across specific rounds include:

• NRL’s Las Vegas opening matches produced the two largest NRL audiences of all-time across the Foxtel Group

• NRL 2024 Magic Round recorded the highest audience ever for a regular season round across the Foxtel Group

• AFL 2024 has achieved the five largest regular season round audiences of all-time across the Foxtel Group

• Super Netball’s opening round achieved the highest opening round of all time

• Super Netball achieved its biggest audience ever for a game during the Vixens vs Fever game in round 7

Kayo Sports is the only place to watch every AFL, NRL, Super Netbal game and F1 race.

• The 2024 Super Netball regular season has produced the top five regular season rounds in the history of Super Netball’s partnership with Foxtel Group

• The 2024 Super Netball season has produced the top 10 individual regular season match audience since the start of its broadcast partnership with Foxtel Group in 2022

• The 2024 F1 season has delivered two of the top 10 race audiences since Foxtel Group started exclusively broadcasting the rights in 2017

• The highest streamed sporting weekend of the year was the third weekend of May which recorded the most viewing sessions (25 million) and minutes viewed (961

million). This was driven by NRL’s Magic Round, AFL Round 10, Supercars Perth Race, F1 Emilia Romagna and Super Netball Round 6

With the winter codes hitting their midway point, the action keeps on coming with more regular season NRL, AFL and Super Netball games, as well as Formula One races in Singapore, Silverstone, Austria and Monza.

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In the coming months, sport junkies can also watch the Bathurst 1000, The Open Championship and PGA Championship golf majors, along with NRLW Finals and Super Netball finals.

Super Netball’s popularity is reaching new heights. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)

Julian Ogrin, Managing Director, Kayo Sports said: “We wrote the rule book on sports streaming and five years on from launch, Kayo Sports continues to fuel fandom, reshaping how fans access their favourite sports.

“We’re committed to providing fans with unrivalled access to the best of sport delivered via 4K streaming experience.

“More Australian families are embracing their love for sport as a younger demographic flocks to the streaming field. Kayo Sports makes it easy to unlock your inner fandom from live matches and expert commentary and analysis to Minis and replays.”

Kayo Sports is the only place to watch every NRL and AFL regular season game, every Super Netball game and every practice, qualifying session and race of the Formula One season.

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