Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) runs the ball in for a goal versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers throughout the very first quarter at Raymond James Stadium,Oct 2, 2022.
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Amazon will stream the very first Black Friday NFL video game in November 2023, the business exposed in a joint statement with the National Football League on Tuesday.
The video game– which will occur on at 3 p.m. ET onNov 24, 2023,– is the very first NFL competitors to occur on the day after Thanksgiving, which itself is a generally special day for NFL video games. The groups for the Black Friday video game will be revealed together with the remainder of the matches in next season’s NFL schedule.
The statement positions the video game on the essential discount rate vacation for brick-and-mortar merchants, and the video game might drive buyer traffic far from shops and towardsAmazon Amazon offers online discount rates on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday of that vacation weekend.
“Black Friday is the unofficial start of the holiday season, and we’re thrilled to kick it off with a gift for football fans across the country with this new game,” stated Jay Marine, Global Head of Sports at Prime Video.
Even without an NFL video game to handle, Black Friday this year is currently anticipated to underperform previous years. Amazon’s relocation might just worsen that weak point, which has actually been growing as shops progressively expanded promos throughout the holiday.
The statement admired Amazon’s “Thursday Night Football” broadcast, which started this year and is balancing 10.8 million weekly audiences, according toNielson That viewership is 48% greater than the viewership of “Thursday Night Football” in 2021, according to Tuesday’s release.
— CNBC’s Jessica Golden added to this report.
