UFC generates record-high $600 million for 2015
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will generate roughly $600 million in revenue for 2015 — a company record — thanks to big business at the PPV box office.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship generated over half a billion dollars in 2015; a record for the company.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will generate roughly $600 million in revenue for 2015 — a company record — thanks to big business at the pay-per-view (PPV) box office. In addition, media rights and exclusive sponsorships (like this one) are undoubtedly lining a few pockets.
UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta talks to CNN:
“We’ll generate about $600 million in revenue for the year 2015, which is a record for the company and it’s a fairly significant growth coming off 2014. The exciting part of the platform that we’ve built is that we’ve been able to embrace different tiers of revenue. We have our basic pay-per-view business, that is our biggest source of revenue. Then we have our media rights, which is really similar to rights that we sell to FOX for all of the programming we give them. And then we have embraced the over-the-top platforms, where we launched UFC Fight Pass, which is a subscription service of $9.99 per month where you can access the entire UFC library and we also put live exclusive UFC events from around the world on that format, as well as original programming. So we really have those three sources of revenue to generate, three ways to monetize our contacts.”
