Peacock and The Impact of Paris 2024

Beyond the riveting competition, inspiring stories, and meme-generating moments, the 2024 Summer Olympics delivered huge audiences for NBCU. Paris 2024 also marked the first time the entire Olympics Games were fully available in the U.S. via streaming on Peacock.

Typically, many of the biggest acquisition moments for streaming are related to the NFL, but the 2024 Paris Games approached those levels. Between July 25 and July 31, Antenna observed 2.8M Sign-ups to Peacock. 

Average Daily Sign-ups to Peacock of 398k during the first week of The 2024 Olympics represented a 5.6x increase versus the 8-week benchmark. 

Antenna has previously noted that live sporting events, especially the NFL, drive acquisition for streaming video services. In fact, earlier this year Antenna observed 3M Sign-ups to Peacock during the January NFL AFC Wild Card Weekend, and 3.4M Sign-ups to Paramount+ for Super Bowl LVIII. But the nature of those events—a single game on a single day—is much different than the Olympics, which are spread across multiple days and weeks. 

Antenna also found that the loyalty of the AFC Wild Card cohort, a significant acquisition moment in SVOD, was just -7pts weaker than the service’s benchmark. Antenna will continue measuring the acquisition pattern for Peacock in August through the end of the Games (which concluded August 11) and the subsequent loyalty profile of this cohort.

For now, we know that there is no doubt that the 2024 Paris Games had an impact on acquisition. On average, Peacock has commanded 16% share of Premium SVOD Gross Adds over the prior 12-months. In July 2024, Peacock drew 29% share of all Gross Additions in the category.

For more detailed information on Antenna’s methodology and definitions of core metrics, please visit http://www.antenna.live/methodology.

^{*The 8-week benchmark represents Average Daily Sign-ups to Peacock across the previous 8 weeks (May 30 - July 24).}