WWE Network

WWE Network
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Type of businessDivision
Type of site
OTT video streaming platform
Available in
List
  • Arabic
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hindi
  • Indonesian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Tagalog
HeadquartersStamford, Connecticut, U.S.
Country of originUnited States
Area servedWorldwide (excluding Mainland China, Cuba, Iran, Liechtenstein, North Korea, Syria, Russia and the occupied territories)
37 countries (via Netflix)
United States (via Peacock)
Sub-Saharan Africa (via SuperSport/Showmax)
Caribbean (via Rush Prime)
Japan (via Abema)
South Korea (via IB Sports)
OwnerWWE
(TKO Group Holdings)
Products
URLnetwork.wwe.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired
Users 1.5 million
(as of October 30, 2020)
LaunchedFebruary 24, 2014 (February 24, 2014)
Current statusActive

WWE Network is a subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and digital television network owned by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, a division of TKO Group Holdings. The service primarily carries the company's library content, including past television programming and pay-per-view events from the promotion and other companies that had been acquired by WWE (such as WCW), original programming (including documentaries and in-ring programming), as well as streaming of WWE pay-per-view events at no additional charge.

The service relied on technology developed by MLB Advanced Media and BAMTech, prior to Endeavor Streaming assuming technical operations of the service in 2019. Although operating primarily as a standalone service, the distribution model of the WWE Network varies by market, where it can be available as an integrated service through licensing agreements with third-party providers, depending on the markets. The standalone service contains a premium and a free tier.

WWE Network launched on February 24, 2014 in the United States, as a digital successor to the WWE Classics on Demand service. It launched in Canada in July of that year and expanded to the Asia–Pacific region and select European countries in August. The United Kingdom received the service in February 2015, and was made available in the Middle East and parts of Africa that March, and to India in November. It was launched in additional European and Asian countries in January 2016. Upon launch, the WWE Network was met with positive reception of its content library, but was criticized for technical problems. The service had 1.5 million subscribers by October 30, 2020.

Beginning in 2021, WWE began to phase out WWE Network, and began reaching agreements with domestic streaming services owned by local rightsholders (such as Peacock in the United States, Binge in Australia, and Disney+ in the Philippines and Indonesia) to carry its content instead. In 2024, WWE then announced an agreement with Netflix, under which it will hold the streaming rights to its content internationally beginning in January 2025; the agreement was part of one that granted Netflix the rights to WWE Raw in the United States and internationally. WWE Network ceased standalone operations in the vast majority of its remaining countries as of January 1, 2025. It remains active for an indeterminate period of time in a small number of territories where Netflix's contract will not take immediate effect due to pre-existing agreements.