Yesterday’s women’s Gold medal hockey game posted the highest desktop and mobile audience ever for a CBC live event, the network reports, bringing in a preliminary average audience of more than 325,000 viewers.
This beats the previous record, which was set the day before during Canada’s men’s hockey game against Latvia, bringing in an average of 280,000 viewers streaming the game on their desktop and mobile devices. In total, 1.75 million viewers streamed the game at one point or another on Wednesday.
According to data from Sandvine, at its peak last Thursday during Canada’s men’s hockey game against Norway, CBC Olympic internet streaming accounted for 37% of total network traffic.
More than one in five Canadians (just under 7.6 million) have watched Olympic content online since Feb. 6, according to numbers from the CBC.