Sunday night’s Oscar telecast started and ended with indelible moments: a stirring Wicked duet and a climactic pair of wins by Anora.
Unfortunately for many Hulu subscribers, both ends of the 3-hour, 45-minute telecast were the exact points when they got blocked from accessing the show due to technical glitches. The outages prompted howls from frustrated viewers on social media and multiple apologetic statements from Hulu about flaws in the first-ever Oscar livestream.
Two days later, the question nags not just at consumers but an entire industry committed to streaming: What exactly caused the stream to fail? Unlike cases like Netflix’s global stream of November’s Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight, scale didn’t seem to be the problem. (At 19.69 million viewers across both ABC linear TV and Hulu, it was a fraction of that of past Oscar shows or February’s Super Bowl.) Instead, authentication – the process
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