Netflix VP of sports says WWE is ‘everything we could have hoped for and more’

  • Ian Carey
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Gabe Spitzer, vice president of sports at Netflix. says his company is happy with how WWE has performed on the streaming service so far.

On Tuesday, Netflix released information regarding viewership on the platform for the first half of 2025, which is also the first six months WWE programming has been available on Netflix.

“It’s everything we could have hoped for and more,” said Spitzer to Variety. “We knew going in that we’re not going to change WWE. It was more, how can we add to it in small ways, and that’s what we’ve seen so far.” 

“[WWE’s] distribution has been pretty fragmented up to this point, and the hope was ‘Let’s combine the power of what you guys do with the power of what we do with our global distribution, and get our marketing teams together … and try to lift this,” Spitzer added.

Triple H was also quoted in the Variety artilce published on Wednesday.

“Netflix has been amazing, in every sense of the word. They are phenomenal partners,” Triple H said. “And we can’t say enough about WWE fans. They’ve shown up in full force, as passionate and engaged as ever.”

Dave Meltzer published a premium article for subscribers yesterday looking at the WWE on Netflix viewership for the first half of 2025. He noted there are several differences in how viewership is calculated on Netflix versus how Nielson’s handles television ratings, such as the inclusion of viewership that takes place more than seven days after the original airing. Users on Netflix skipping through commercials or watching commercial free also factor into the calculations. The article also looks at international streaming numbers for SmackDown, NXT, and WWE PLEs in addition to Raw.

“Netflix released a listing of viewing of all of its major shows over the first six months of the year, which gives new insights of viewership of the PPV/PLE  events, Smackdown and NXT numbers as well viewership of Raw episodes after seven days,” Meltzer’s post begins.

The full article is available here.