AEW Double or Nothing - May 26, 2024

[Apoho Creed]

Swerve vs Cage and the Main Event both were good Matches. Darby man that Superkick to the Nose surely he had a major headache and a Broken Nose.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

"We have a budget for God's sake!" - Matt
"When did that start?" - Tony Shiavonne

 

[Chris]

Regarding PPV, from TV buys it was up 9.5 percent from Dynasty so that would lead to a preliminary estimate of 133,000–although with the holiday weekend things can be slow reporting on one hand, and based on streaming, it’s probably about that level or maybe slightly below. Streaming numbers were up over Dynasty about the same in the U.S. But international buys were about the same as Dynasty. Television buys are way down from last year’s show, but streaming buys are picking up some of the slack.

From the Observer

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I have to be honest, I'm a bit confused by the way that is worded. Is he saying just TV PPV buys are 133,000?

Because that's huge if so.

 

[Chris]

I have to be honest, I'm a bit confused by the way that is worded. Is he saying just TV PPV buys are 133,000?

Because that's huge if so.

No, he only has the TV buys so he's using previous numbers to estimate the 133 but with disclaimers that it's not always the same proportions

 

[Kross Rhodes]

No, he only has the TV buys so he's using previous numbers to estimate the 133 but with disclaimers that it's not always the same proportions

Gotcha. It was oddly worded, but that makes more sense. Figured most of it has to be streaming buys.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

133 is slightly down, but that's still a great number when you're doing 9 shows a year now. Even as an estimate.

 

[Chris]

Oh no I think I just had the wrong idea anyway. I'm pretty sure he has estimates for both but he lumps them for AEW for some reason maybe to not burn sources. Confusing bc for TNA for example he gives TV buys and then estimates streaming and WWE obviously only has the TV buy numbers which are mostly irrelevant other than I'm always intrigued how many do still buy instead of having Peacock

 

[Chris]

133 is slightly down, but that's still a great number when you're doing 9 shows a year now. Even as an estimate.

Yeah it's not an easy comparison bc you can look at total buys for the year and they'll be way up, but you have to factor in the extra show costs for less buys...but if the gate for the extra shows cover that then it is a net positive

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Yeah it's not an easy comparison bc you can look at total buys for the year and they'll be way up, but you have to factor in the extra show costs for less buys...but if the gate for the extra shows cover that then it is a net positive

Exactly. I believe the PPV gates are the one area AEW has no trouble selling. So they should be way up. As long as the gates stay good and PPV buys per PPV stay above 100, there should be a pretty strong net positive. Definitely making more money this way over getting the 150 for 4 a year I'd say.