People stream everything these days.
However, you'd think that the Super Bowl would remain a type of event that people would want to stay clear from streaming and instead simply opt to watch on television — a big, clear TV.
Well, while that remains the case for the most part today, more people than ever before still chose to stream Super Bowl 50 on Sunday night, tuning in to see a rugged Denver Broncos defense lead Peyton Manning to a championship victory over the Carolina Panthers.
Although CBS didn't reveal the exact numbers, the network and host of Super Bowl 50 said that the Broncos' win pulled in a "record audience" of streaming viewers for the big game Sunday night, as reported by Re/code on Monday.
Despite CBS keeping mum on its streaming numbers, a "record audience" does mean that it surpassed the numbers NBC received when it streamed the big game in January 2015 and also claimed to have broken records with its 800,000 average viewers per minute, 1.3 million concurrent users and 213 million total minutes, as reported by Re/code.
So, at least we know it's more than that, which is quite impressive.
Of course, the game being tight for most of the way probably helped keep viewers glued to streaming Super Bowl 50.
If you think about it, not everyone hosts or attends a big Super Bowl party, and those people might be prime candidates for streaming the game, whether it's on their Apple TV, Roku or Xbox One. Options are a beautiful thing.
Aside from a reported Apple TV glitch that was eventually cleared up, the streaming of the game seemingly went smoothly enough for Super Bowl 50 to set "record" streaming numbers.
We'd call that a touchdown for CBS.
