Streaming Services Have Found Their One Advantage Over Netflix

Hint: It’s only because Netflix doesn’t offer it.

TOPSHOT - John Cena (R) competes with Triple H during the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Greatest Royal Rumble event in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on April 27, 2018. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)Photographer: , STRINGER/AFP

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By Lucas Shaw

January 31, 2021 at 11:00 PM UTC

Wrestling was supposed to be one of the first streaming success stories. In 2018, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. announced it had signed up 2.1 million customers for its WWE Network, making it one of the biggest paid online video services not named Netflix.

Now, just two years later, the WWE is giving up on its own service (in the U.S., at least) and selling its rights to Peacock.