A Million People Streaming One Match — What Could Go Wrong?

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]From time to time, you get a big peak coming through, which is about twice where you think that growth rate ought to be. And the big peaks, funnily enough, tend to align with football. So, the thing about um World Cups is one thing we know about it is it's definitely going to be the biggest thing we've ever done. While the UHD is very interesting, we know that we're probably at some point going to get around a million people concurrent viewers uh on various different devices of our regular coverage of the World Cup. So, one thing we don't want to do is get excited with the UHD and discover as a consequence of that that we've run out of CDN capacity or we started to uh to congest networks and and what have you. Uh the consequence being that everyone then has a bad time. It's all coming from the same servers. Uh so, uh when something goes wrong with one of our services, it tends to go wrong with all of it.