The number of ESPN+ subscribers increases to 6.6 million

Bob Arum and Tyson Fury
Bob Arum and Tyson Fury

Disney Corporation has published data on the numbers of paid subscribers of its streaming services. The platform ESPN+ is among them, which regularly broadcasts boxing evenings.

As it turned out the platform service broadcasting events of Top Rank promotional organization which is associated with the contracts among other with Tyson Fury and Terence Crawford, is currently used by about 6.6 million people. Importantly ESPN+ showed a huge increase in the number of subscribers compared to the previous year - in December 2018 their numbers were "only" 1.4 million.

ESPN+ is the main rival of DAZN platform in the field of boxing events broadcasting in the US. Thus DAZN refuses to submit information to an open access about their subscribers. However, according to unofficial data, in December 2019 the number of users in the streaming service managed by John Skipper does not exceed 1 million people.