Mayweather - Pacquiao: €359m of revenue for the pay-per-view broadcast via HBO and Showtime

The pay-per-view broadcast of the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (USA) and Manny Pacquiao (PHI), on 02/05/2015 in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA), generated nearly $400m (€359m) in revenue, according to several estimates released on 02/05/2015.

Showtime (audiovisual group CBS Corporation) and HBO (Time Warner group) had signed an agreement for the co-production and dissemination of the broadcast in the United States for the event, offering its pay-per-view at a price between $89.95 and $99.95 (from €80.70 to €99.95), depending on the video quality definition. Both companies say they have registered about 3 million individual subscriptions for this broadcast offer.

The cable and satellite operators receive 30-40% of gross pay-per-view revenue, depending on their marketing expenditures; 7.5% of revenues are for HBO and Showtime, the rest being paid to the two boxers.

Advertisers for the event spent between €9.9m and €11.7m

• Floyd Mayweather Jr. won by unanimous decision of the judges.
• The record amount of income via the number of subscriptions to an pay-per-view offer was…