Netflix CEOs React to Love is Blind Live Reunion Blunder, Reveal How Many People Watched

Love is Blind followers have been shocked Sunday night time when many could not watch the heavily-promoted reunion on the streaming platform.

The reunion was set to play out stay for the primary time within the relationship format’s historical past.

Doing so would enable followers to watch alongside and keep away from spoilers.

Unfortunately, these plans imploded when the stream was delayed by 75 minutes for the individuals who managed to watch it on Netflix Sunday night time.

For everybody else, the episode did not get posted till Monday afternoon, that means spoilers have been already all over the place, leaving a nasty style for individuals who could not watch.

Netflix Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters opened up about this week’s debacle whereas talking in regards to the sturdy Quarter 1 outcomes.

“We’re really sorry to disappoint so many people. We didn’t meet the standard that we expect ourselves to serve our members,” Peters, in accordance to Variety.

“From a technical perspective, we’ve got the infrastructure, we had just a bug that we introduced when we implemented some changes to try to improve live streaming performance after [Chris Rock’s live comedy special] in March.”

Peters added that “we just didn’t see this bug in internal testing because it only became apparent once we put sort of multiple systems interacting with each other under the load of millions of people trying to watch Love Is Blind.”

At the time of the earnings presentation, Peter revealed that the pivotal episode that wrapped up the season had been streamed 6.5 million occasions.

Whether that determine will develop considerably, we do not know, however our greatest guess is that many individuals nonetheless have to watch the episode after making an attempt it on Sunday.

We ought to get extra numbers in Netflix’s Weekly Top 10 to higher point out how the episode is performing.

Love is Blind was Netflix’s second stay occasion, so with new know-how, there are all the time some teething points.

Hopefully, if the service needs to check out such a content material once more, it is going to be a much more worthwhile method for followers.

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