Netflix inches additional into livestreaming because it snags the SAG Awards

is slowly beginning to make extra waves on this planet of livestreaming, as the corporate has snagged the rights to broadcast the . This 12 months’s ceremony will happen on February twenty sixth and stream on Netflix’s YouTube channel. Beginning subsequent 12 months, Netflix will livestream the SAG Awards globally by itself platform as a part of a multi-year deal. Till final 12 months, the ceremony aired on TBS and TNT.

“The SAG Awards are beloved by the artistic group and viewers alike, and now much more followers world wide will be capable to have fun these proficient actors,” Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s head of world TV, instructed Variety in a press release. “As we start to discover reside streaming on Netflix, we stay up for partnering with SAG-AFTRA to raise and broaden this particular ceremony as a world reside occasion in 2024 and the years to return.”

The SAG Awards are a key precursor for the Oscars. They provide a glimpse into how Academy Awards voters are leaning, notably for the appearing classes. TV performances are honored on the occasion too. The Netflix announcement comes on the identical day that this 12 months’s SAG Awards nominees have been revealed — .

Netflix has solely simply began dipping its toes into livestreaming because it pursues more ways to interact subscribers and herald new ones. In November, the corporate introduced its first livestream occasion for its personal platform. It should broadcast on March 4th.