STAMFORD, CONN.—NBC was billing February as the “Best Feb Ever” in the weeks prior and that title held true for its NBC Sports Digital platform, as the network has announced that it set a record in unique users for the month of February on NBC Sports Digital with 93 million, according to multiplatform data released by comScore. The surge of unique users came as NBC Sports Digital provided coverage for the 2018 Winter Olympics, Super Bowl LII and Premier League coverage.

Yahoo Sports-NBC Sports Network’s 93 million unique users beat out second-place ESPN’s monthly unique users in February by 31 percent, as ESPN generated 71 million unique users during the month.

In NBC Sports Digital’s history, February was the second best month in terms of unique users, only trailing August 2016, when it generated 110 million unique users during its coverage for the 2016 Summer Olympics, NASCAR, the Premier League’s opening weekends and NFL preseason games. This year topped previous high marks in February, including February 2017 (51 million) and the Sochi-led Olympics in February 2014 (64 million).

[NBC Olympics Coverage Included 2.17 Billion Total Streaming Minutes]

Yahoo Sports-NBC Sports Network reportedly delivered 721 million minutes of streamed desktop video throughout February, good enough for the top spot among comScore’s Sports category. That represented a 387 percent increase over February 2017 (148 million minutes).

In addition, NBC-owned Golf Channel Digital was up 24 percent year-over-year for total minutes streamed (27.2 million) in February. All four PGA Tour events during the month recorded their highest live stream minute totals, per NBC. Consumption of Golf Channel Digital content across its website and mobile app were also up 13 percent for page views (87 million) and 5 percent for unique devices (4.2 million) from 2017.

STAMFORD, CONN.—The pursuit of Lord Stanley’s cup is becoming a live streaming hit for NBC Sports Digital thanks to increased connected TV consumption during the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.

NBC reports that connected TVs accounted for 204,000 uniques and 68 million minutes of live streaming for the 39 first round games; this is a 98 percent increase for unqiues and 78 percent increase for minutes from the 2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs’ first round, which featured 42 games.

Overall, the first round of the playoffs delivered 798,000 total unique users and 134 million minutes, per NBC, each of which is a 19 percent increase over 2016.

NBC has also released the top five most-streamed games from the first round based on minutes:

1. Washington Capitals vs. Toronto Maples Leafs – Game 6: 7.9 million minutes

2. Chicago Blackhawks vs. Nashville Predators – Game 3: 6.4 million minutes

3. Maples Leafs vs. Capitals – Game 2: 6.3 million minutes

4. St. Louis Blues vs. Minnesota Wild – Game 5: 5.4 million minutes

5. Blackhawks vs. Predators – Game 4: 4.5 million minutes

STAMFORD, CONN.—As NBC Sports prepares for its coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, NBC Sports Digital has announced the launch of a new technology service designed to provide end-to-end support for live streaming and on-demand systems. Playmaker Media’s first client is the International Olympic Committee.

The new system will provide live streaming video support for the IOC’s Olympic Channel, which is expected to launch later in 2016. In addition, NBC has announced that it will use Playmaker for support of NBC News’ coverage of the 2016 presidential election.

Playmaker Media has partnered with technology companies Adobe, Akamai, Microsoft, iStreamPlanet and Comcast Wholesale.

STAMFORD, CONN.—NBC Sports is getting in on the digital shorts game, announcing the launch of NBC Sports Digital Shorts, which will produce short-form content for NBCSports.com and other digital platforms. Content will include short-form original franchises, behind the scenes footage and interviews, and highlights and clips from NBC Sports Group’s properties.

The first NBC Sports Digital Short original series premiered Sunday, Oct. 18, after “Sunday Night Football” and was titled “Serman’s Warriors.” The series follows former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike Sherman as he coaches the Nauset Warriors, a high school team in Cape Cod, Mass. New six- to eight- minute episodes of the six-episode series will be released every Sunday, accompanied by a behind the scenes clip.

NBC Sports Digital will announce additional digital-exclusive programming in the coming months. Episode and clips will be distributed through NBCSports.com and NBC Sports Live Extra.