Showtime Boxing: Paul vs. Silva

The audience was overall active and engaged following Jake Paul's boxing journey against an elite legend. This work inspires and moves the industry moving forward given the high-production value and real-time access into fight weeks. Boxing fans are youthful, active on YouTube, and highly interested in live event coverage.

These live streams are a large promotional driver for the Pay-Per-View to drive consumer purchases and prove to be a valuable marketing tool.

Key items for the prelim stream:

• Peak Concurrent views of 60k
• Average concurrent: 41k
• Peak concurrent around 1 hour and 35-minute mark during final fight
• Impressive consistency throughout the stream
• 90% of watch-time was from non-subscribers which means it was attracting a whole new audience (younger)
• 70% of the audience was between 18-34 years old
• Over 40,000 live chat messages during the stream so a ton of engagement

Objective

Utilizing the full breadth and arsenal of the Showtime Sports ecosystem including ShoSports, Showtime Basketball, and Morning Kombat handles to promote and engage this unlikely matchup to boxing fans, MMA fans, and casual combat sports fans.

Strategy & Execution

We executed live streams of all events (kick-off press conference, fight week media workout, press conference, weigh-in, prelim fights, and post-fight press conference) short form and long-form content, robust graphic package, live event coverage (clipping highlights and behind-the-scenes content), promotion and availability of the Emmy-Award winning series All Access. We dual livestreamed events on Jake Paul's YouTube channel to fully amplify the promotion.