Morning Brew Daily - Netflix Draws 60M Households in Live Sports Gamble & Are Spam Calls Over?
Episode Date: November 18, 2024Episode 455: Toby and Kyle recap the big fight over the weekend – not the one with Jake Paul & Mike Tyson – but with viewers and Netflix as people took to social media to express their frustration... of the glitchy broadcast. Then, some dissension between Trump and Musk over who should be the next US Treasury Secretary. Next, a settlement between Warner Bros. Discovery and the NBA is reached to keep content on its platform, including the hit show “Inside the NBA”. Meanwhile, AI transparency and spam call declines are the weekend’s biggest winners. Lastly, important news to know in the upcoming week ahead. Download the Yahoo! Finance App (on the Play and App store) for real-time alerts on news and insights tailored to your portfolio and stock watchlists. Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Get your Morning Brew Book of Crosswords HERE: shop.morningbrew.com Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow 00:00 - Spirit Airlines Files for Bankruptcy 03:00 - Netflix Tyson-Paul Fight 07:30 - Treasury Secretary Pick 12:10 - Warner Bros. Discovery NBA Rights 17:30 - Winners of the Weekend 24:15 - Week Ahead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Today, Netflix's foray into
live sports broadcasting went about
as shaky as Mike Tyson's jab.
And the reason you haven't been getting as many
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after years of losses, a failed merger with JetBlue and shifting consumer preferences.
Yeah, Spirit has not been having a good time lately. Not only was it dealing with like failing
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planes earlier this year. And I think the final nail in the coffin was just post-pandemic travel
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Yeah, the last few years have just been a rough time for them. Spirit hasn't had a profit since
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Well, Kyle, turns out putting a 58-year-old in a boxing ring with someone less than half his age doesn't lead to very compelling television.
The much-hyped Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul fight
put on by Netflix was mostly a snooze fest
that gave fans very little to cheer about.
But the streamers foray into the fight game
did bring in huge viewership numbers.
Netflix announced that 60 million households
tuned in to watch Paul and Tyson
slug it out for the main event,
while 50 million watched the co-main event
between Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor,
which actually made it the most viewed
women's sporting event in U.S. history.
But while the gaudy numbers were nice,
there were some annoying,
technical blunders along the way, and I'm not just talking about Iron Mike's clumsy footwork.
Yeah, hashtag Netflix crash, which of your Netflix, you don't want that trending.
It did start trending on X on Friday, and Down Detector received more than 500,000 reports
that Netflix was having issues.
Obviously, a ton of people wanted to watch this, and they're having some issues.
Jake Paul, the marketing, legitimately the marketing master he is somehow, he took the opportunity
to brag that we, quote, crash the site in an interview after beating Tyson.
what will likely have Netflix execs kind of sweating bullets right now is this fight was a dry run for Netflix.
Christmas Day, they're going to broadcast NFL games.
And the NFL, if there's streaming issues, they're going to get a lot more than 500,000 reports on Down Detector.
So it was a smashing success for Netflix in some regards, but also maybe a failure or something they need to check before Christmas in other regards.
Right. It was a cultural moment. So in that sense, it was a success. At one point, you know, Mike Tyson's bear,
Bottom was shown in the locker room by Netflix.
That turned into a meme.
But it also showed this event showed that Netflix is certainly working out the kinks.
A lot of people were just tweeting out, is it my internet or is this stream just buffering a lot?
So it made headlines in that way, too.
But let's take a step back here and realize just how big 60 million viewers, 60 million households is.
The 2023 NFL regular season average 17.9 million viewers per game.
The most watch regular season game was the Cowboys for Science on Thanksgiving.
That only got 42 million viewers.
So we're talking bigger than the biggest NFL game last year
outside of the Super Bowl.
So it is truly a big number.
I was reading around, though,
and some people in the industry were asking some questions
about how that number was calculated.
Did Netflix treat each individual effort
to reload the stream as a new watch?
Because you know a lot of people are pressing that refresh button.
So maybe there isn't great apples-to-apples viewership numbers
because these are self-reported numbers,
but still, regardless, it is a massive, massive number.
Yeah, I mean, there was a January playoff game a year ago, Kansas City Chiefs versus Miami Dolphins or a few years ago, and that drew 23 million viewers.
And obviously, that was streamed on, it was on streamed on Peacock.
So they could handle the bandwidth of 23 million users.
Just to talk about the scale of Netflix, there's 280 million subscribers in more than 190 countries.
So I think the Christmas games could see more than what Jake Paul and Mike Tyson had.
And if it's more, like Netflix is probably getting to work right now, making sure.
the stream doesn't go down.
Also, apparently this morning, breaking news,
Beyonce is playing the halftime show at one of these games.
So you can probably double the number of subscribers
that are going to look into this game now.
So Netflix just definitely needs to get ready
for these Christmas Day games.
Because the reason why we're talking about this fight,
even though it was a little bit of a snooze fest,
is that it is kind of a signal of Netflix's intention
to push into these mega events.
They've streamed some smaller live events before.
Remember, they had stand-up specials from Chris Rock.
this golf tournament they called the Netflix Cup.
They also tried to stream the Love is Blind season four, reunion special.
Never forget.
Love is Blind fans know that that did not go well at all.
And that was obviously much, much, it was trump change in viewership compared to this Jake
Paul and Mike Tyson fight.
But we've mentioned the NFL games on Christmas Day coming up, so that will be a big test.
But then another big test too is Netflix signed WWE's flagship show Raw.
It's coming to Netflix in January.
So they definitely have to get their ducks in the row here because you can't be having these buffering issues for these future mega events.
Yeah, I think it's such a great point.
Not only is the Christmas Day game going to be important for Netflix to go off without a hitch, but it's also, Netflix needs to be viewed as credible by some of these larger sports leagues because I think if they can crack the code, then they're looking really good for live sports.
It just unlocks so much value for this company because that is the one thing people are still buying cable packages for.
if they can crack the code, then they're looking really good for future growth and using this as like top of funnel to get more permanent subscribers.
Yeah, it's a great point. I think the final takeaway here is that the boxing match between a 27-year-old and a 58-year-old went pretty much exactly how you would expect a 27-year-old against a 58-year-olds go.
And that maybe Netflix isn't ready for the big time.
There is some cabinet drama going down in recent days over who should be Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary.
And like Kyle's high school love life, it has spilled over into a big time.
messy public spat. The two main men up for consideration are billionaire Howard Lutnik,
who Trump has already relied on as his chief headhunter to help him fill positions in his
administration, and the former money manager for George Storos, Scott Besant, who seemed to be
the favor in the clubhouse until Elon Musk and RFK Jr. started to weigh in. The two Trump
allies started to make noise on X to their combined 210 million followers over the weekend. Musk wrote,
my view is that
Besant is a business as usual choice
whereas Howard Lutnik will actually enact change
business as usual is driving America bankrupt
so we need change one way or another
so you can see how this is turning
into a proxy battle between a more
status quo choice in Pescent
who is probably still the odds on favorite to win the role
and Lutnik who might upend the status quo
but according to multiple reports
the last minute push from Elon and RFK
and Lutnik has rubbed the Trump camp
the wrong way and now he might go
in an entirely different direction with former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh and Wall Street
billionaire Mark Rowan now in the mix as well. So, Kyle, I compared this messy fight to your
high school love life, but I hope it wasn't quite this messy. Okay, one, I cannot confirm nor deny
anything about my high school love life. So let me set the record straight there. I mean,
just to take a step back, what does the Treasury Secretary actually do? And this is a really important
position for the Trump administration. This is economic policy and advising the president on those
economic issues, managing federal finances, overseeing the IRS, managing U.S. dollar and monetary
policy, regulating financial institutions. And so much of what Trump talked about on the campaign trail
was, one, tariffs. And so he needs a Treasury secretary that's going to go along with at least
using tariffs as a negotiating tactic. And two, maybe some changes to the IRS, which this
post would actually oversee. So I think it's a very important role. You've talked about kind of how
the two candidates that were most in favor maybe have fallen out, and there's some emerging contenders,
I love in some of the reporting, they were like talking to Trump, what do you want from this person?
One, he was like, he wants someone, quote, unquote, big for the role that has respect on Wall Street,
which maybe points to Mark Rowan, who's the CEO of Apollo Global Management.
But he also said he wanted someone handsome, and he thinks that Kevin Warsh is handsome.
You said that he wanted someone big on Wall Street, because part of what a Treasury Secretary does
is kind of just project strength and stability to the stock market, to the bond market.
You want someone there with a steady hand.
I mean, think about our past Treasury secretaries, Janet Yellen, is one of those kind of steady-the-ship type figures.
So you want someone like that in the role.
When it comes down to policies between some of the names up for grabs here, they are kind of similar.
One of the big choices is who is going to support Trump's, you know, foray into levying this across-the-board tariffs.
Pretty much everyone has come out and said, like, we will support that.
they also both are candidates or all the candidates are generally in favor of lowering taxes to
help offset some of those higher import costs. Also, cryptocurrencies, they've all been pretty
across the board in favor of that as well. So it might just come down to who, you know,
Trump likes the most at this point because it is one of those positions that you do want to have
like a good relationship with the president. I think what has been grading Howard Lutnik
was supposed to be this person who has just helped with the transatlantic.
team.
Yep.
But he is almost done this Dick Cheney model of saying, wait a second, I'm going to head up the
committee, but also you should pick me.
Yeah, it's like, I have a really good person for the Treasury Secretary.
It happens to be me.
Right.
No, and so that has been grading on Trump a little bit.
So, and then you have, of course, the wildcards of Elon and RFK wearing in and saying,
I think you should go with Lutnik.
So a lot of moving pieces here.
And it is just notable how much longer Trump has taken to fill this position than every
other position within his cabinet, which I will just run down quickly, some of the
positions that have been filled. Recently, Trump chose Chris Wright, the CEO of this oil field
services company, Liberty Energy, to serve as the next Energy Secretary. Right is known as one of the
pioneers of the American fracking revolution. And then also, you probably heard about this one last
week, but Trump did name Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his new Secretary of Health and Human
Services. So outside of the Treasury Secretary, this cabinet is coming together, but clearly dragging
his feet on this specific position. Yeah, but just one final note, these are just nominees. They do have to
get confirmed by the Senate, and so none of these are finalized until they do that task.
Warner Bros. Discovery settled their breach of contract lawsuit against the NBA, an agreement that
will keep the company in business with the league for over about 10 years. Now, the backstory
on this lawsuit, the NBA signed a new rights deal with ESPN Comcast and Amazon.com for nearly
$80 billion. And then Discovery sued saying that this violated a matching rights closet had with
its own TNT cable network. Now, the ref has blown the
the whistle, they've gone away from the review, and they're not going to court. The new settlement
now focuses on the ability for Warner Bros. Discovery to develop new shows with the NBA,
house some international rights for Northern Europe and Latin America, and then Bleacher Report
and House of Highlights, two of their social media channels will continue to have access
to NBA content. The company is also going to partner with the NBA's digital operations.
that'll drive about $350 million in revenue for Discovery.
And then finally, which was the most important to me, Warner Bros. Discovery struck a deal with Disney to license the TNT show inside the NBA.
This is kind of a cult classic show of NBA followers.
So we're still going to have Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal on the big screen for the NBA season.
Toby, what are your thoughts about this deal?
And are you pumped that we're still going to have Sir Charles on TV?
I am extremely excited for that.
This was a big sticking point for TNT, which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
They had had the NBA for since 1988.
It has just been a fixture on TNT.
So losing the NBA was a really big deal.
There was an NBA size hole.
They did sue to try to claw back some of those games.
What ended up happening for the most casual fan, though, is like, if we lose inside the NBA,
we are going to be extremely mad.
We will riot.
It is true a little bit because if you actually look at the NBA,
despite this gigantic media deal,
it just signed with that trio of partners
that you mentioned.
Viewership is actually a little bit down this year.
You have this crop of stars,
you know, like the LeBron era,
the Steph era, that is aging out of the league.
So you kind of have these headwinds against the league right now
despite this record revenue that it is bringing in.
So to keep these bankable stars like Charles Barkley,
like Shaquille O'Neal that kind of make inside the NBA what it is,
it is a big win.
So they had to do some creative.
maneuvering here. They had to strike a deal to license the show. They won't necessarily run it
outright anymore. But to keep this, you know, group of fan favorites, I think was big with the NBA.
100%. I think three things to me are super interesting. One is international expansion will continue
that the rights internationally are still worth something. The second is, I think just looking at
viewers of games being down doesn't tell the whole picture of the NBA. This is a sport that's really
leaned into social content. And so so many people, they might not watch a regular season game
between like the Portland Trailblazers and the New Orleans Pelicans,
but they'll definitely watch the highlight of like Brandon Ingram dunking on someone.
And that will get so much play across social.
And I think the third thing is this ability for Warner Bros.
to develop new shows around NBA content.
We just saw the Netflix show that followed five NBA players.
I think we're going to see more of that where it's not NBA games,
but it's NBA content.
And that's the real kind of breadwinner for the NBA to develop almost a universe
outside of the games that'll keep the league relevant for a long time.
That is a great point.
Also, one final part of this deal is that college football is coming to Warner Bros as kind of a tit-for-tat licensing agreement with ESPN with Disney.
And then they'll also do a new deal for NASCAR.
So they are trying to fill this NBA-sized hole in their broadcasting with something like college football, with something like NASCAR.
So the void will be filled by something else.
We will fill the void.
Yeah, they will fill the void.
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the segment where Toby and I introduced two entities that absolutely crushed the weekend,
unlike your friend who brought that side dish at Friendsgiving that nobody ate.
Toby, you won the pre-show game of pickleball, so you're up first.
My winner over the weekend is Elon Musk's AI Ambitions.
His company, XAI, is raising $6 billion to buy 100,000 Nvidia chips in order to big,
a big old data center in Memphis.
That pushes XAI's valuation to $50 billion, making it the $6,000.
most valuable startup in the world. So for those keeping track at home, Elon now has SpaceX,
which was valued at approximately $250 billion after a recent tender offer, and is now the second
most valuable private company in the world behind By Dance plus XAI, which is now the sixth most
valuable company as well. The vision for the maker of GROC AI model is to take on OpenAI and
Sam Altman. As part of that effort, Elon has also ramped up pressure on his rival by expanding
his lawsuit against the company, adding in Microsoft and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as
defendants. That is an escalation of the original antitrust lawsuit he filed earlier this year,
alleging open AI created an unfair monopoly in the AI space, as well as undermined its original
open source promise. So Kyle, lost in everything else Elon does. Is this massive AI bet he is
also making with his company XAI? Yeah, I mean, I think it is actually pretty super impressive.
And Jensen Wong, the CEO of NVIDIA founder, praised Musk a little bit ago, saying that to build this data center, it would have normally took it years or a year plus.
He did it in 19 days.
And so I think when Elon decides he is going to do something, he almost will stop at nothing to get it done.
So I think that just the feat of engineering to get this data center up is really, really impressive.
And obviously now it's just a money game.
People need GPUs to build really large language models and other AI capabilities.
so they've secured funding for that,
and it's off to the races for Elon and XAI.
I mean, I do just want to drill in on how big this supercomputer is.
It is probably going to be the biggest supercomputer in the world,
and why Elon is so confident in making this bet on just buying all these GPUs,
is that Tesla does have a, or Elon does have a really great use case for a data center like this.
Not only will it help train the models put forth by XAI,
but also Tesla's full self-driving is expected to rely heavily on this.
new supercomputer. It's nickname Colossus, and it is just going to play a role in a lot of the
enterprises, not just Tesla, not just X, but also SpaceX, also NeurLink. So he does have a lot of
use for this, which is why I think investors were ready to fork over, you know, $5 billion or $6 billion,
pushing into a valuation of $50 billion. It truly is crazy. How big of a bet and how quickly this
happened. Like, Elon didn't have an AI company really, even just at this time a year ago,
now he's got one of the biggest supercomputers in the world. Yeah, I mean, basically if Elon
Wants up and says, I'm going to start a company. He'll have $5 billion this door in about 10 minutes.
I mean, you said he didn't have an AI company, but I want to go back to when he actually
co-founded Open AI because you mentioned the lawsuit. I actually think the lawsuit is very revelatory
about both Sam Altman and Elon Musk. The emails that are coming out between them are now
part of discovery so everyone can see them. Sam Altman, people are complaining that like, we're not really
sure what your like calculus is, what your true ambitions are, which is what we've heard when he got
kicked out and came back exactly about Sam Altman.
For Elon, they were like, it seems like you want complete dominance and you want to
own AI completely.
And that's kind of what we're seeing too.
So interesting to think even, you know, five, ten years ago, their characteristics were
quite the same.
Absolutely.
I do highly recommend checking out these emails as well just to see the communication styles
because Sam Altman would write this multi-paragraph thing about why he thinks AI is the
bet to make right now.
And Elon Musk will respond in one sentence that literally says like, sounds good.
Yeah.
Count me in.
Doesn't even sign his email. So for all of you being like best comma Kyle, which I do, delete it.
You don't need it. All right, Toby, let me paint a picture for you. Your phone rings and it's an unknown number.
You pick it up because you're convinced it's actually your crush calling from a new number.
You say hello, nothing happens. You say hello again. A pre-recorded meshes plays telling you that you're behind in a car payment and you need to pay immediately.
You don't even own a car. You're confused. You hang up. Yes, this is a classic American experience.
but thanks to the FTC, it's happening less and less each year.
Now, the Federal Trade Commission reported that unwanted telemarketing calls are down
more than 51% since 2021, and they've dropped in each of the past three years.
Now, this has been a major focus for the FTC.
In 2023, the agency announced Operation Stop Spam calls, very creative name there.
The largest crackdown on illegal telemarketing in the agency's history.
They've also gotten the big phone mobile carriers to do,
anti-spoofing protocols and to stop people from spoofing numbers. And they've also put out new
regulations around AI saying AI telemarketing is still telemarketing. Now, for every month in the
fiscal year, robocalls made up the most of consumer complaints. Those are down. I just thought it
was interesting the other common tactics, impostors, debt reduction fake calls, and then energy solar
and utilities fake calls. Now, the FTC said they'll continue to be vigilant on this front.
they also clarified that this doesn't mean you don't have to call your grandma anymore.
So please pick up the phone and caller.
Toby, have you felt like spam calls are down?
I do think generally speaking, there have been less.
I'm still one of those people.
I never pick up from a random number.
I never do, but I feel like I get so many spam calls still.
Right.
It is one of those things where the FTC did finally put its flag in the sand and say,
like, we are going to do something about this because it truly was just a massive problem
that a lot of people, I mean, you took us through that beautiful experience
at the start of the story. A lot of people have had that experience. I think one of the big things
that the FTC did is that they now have the power to directly file a federal court complaint
to force these scammers to return stolen money. So they've actually just basically grown some
claws, grown some teeth to and actually go after some of these big robocall big scamming operations.
They estimate that the impersonation-based scam calls have cost consumers $1.1 billion during the last year.
So this is still a pretty big problem, but also going after these AI generated calls as well, that's been a big part as well.
So it is good to see those numbers going down one segment of these spam calls, though, that did jump in that you mentioned a little bit, is that debt reduction calls actually spiked 85% from last year.
So we are still seeing these random, I mean, car warranty calls have gone down, but debt reduction calls have gone up.
So you see these scammers kind of maneuvering and countermaneuvering to the FDCs move.
Now let's see what's on the docket for the week ahead.
The G20 summit begins today in Rio.
Top world leaders, including the U.S. is Joe Biden, Francis Emmanuel Macron,
in China, Xi Jinping, as well as India's prime minister,
will gather in Brazil for a two-day summit to try and address some major geopolitical issues.
It's also the first major gathering of leaders since Donald Trump was elected,
who has pledged to enact policies that put America first over international cooperation.
So could be a little testy, Kyle.
Yeah, we're kind of in this interesting purgatory.
period, though, where, like, Trump is going to be president in, like, you know, a couple months.
Obviously, focus on China relations will be major in this administration and the next.
We also have a brazy earnings week on the docket.
NVIDIA and Walmart highlight the slate.
Analysts are expecting NVIDIA to show quarterly sales of $33 billion up 10% from the previous year and 83% year over year.
But they also warn that the growth of the chipmaker could begin too slow.
Outside of the tech world, reports coming this week from Walmart Target Loat.
and other retailers will offer a peek into the health of the consumer.
You know I'm Team Target, Toby.
Shout out to Minnesota.
I'm hoping for a good call for Target.
Moving to the box office, Wicked and Gladiator 2 are heading to theaters to Duke it out.
The Paul Mescal-led sequel to 2000s Gladiator has a reported budget north of $300 million
and is high on both spectacle and allegedly some historical inaccuracies.
Meanwhile, Ariana Grande is taking the smash hit Broadway hit.
or the smash Broadway hit Wicked to the big screen,
and what is the first of a two-part film adaptation?
Kyle, it's not exactly Barbenheimer,
but are you excited for Glickett?
Toby, they got to hire you for marketing.
I'm so excited for Glickett.
I just saw Wicked recently on Broadway,
and it was amazing,
so I'm actually very excited for that movie.
I have not seen Wicked on Broadway.
It's so bad.
So I will go to this movie.
I'm most excited for Gladiator, too,
though. Paul Mascal, I think it's going to be electric in that.
Also, some other stuff that's going on this week.
The 58th annual CMA Awards hosted by Luke Brian Payne Manning and Lainey Wilson are on Wednesday, Kyle.
Are you a country guy?
I wasn't, but then all of my favorite artists became country like overnight.
And so I guess I am.
Post Malone was like your country now.
And I'm like, okay, post.
I am.
I trust you.
And then finally, the Washington Spirit will face the Orlando Pride and the NWSL Championship on Saturday, Kyle.
Give me your pick.
I'm going pride.
I like it.
I like it.
I'm a Florida boy.
I'm our team Orlando Pride as well.
Let's wrap it up there though.
Kyle, thanks for being an absolute champ.
Three appearances in five days, a new record for you.
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