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It's the end of an era in WWE.

Elements of the WWE and Peacock deal are now done, and the video library no longer has an official home. On December 31, content started being removed from Peacock.

Fightful reported quite a while back that no new deal for the library content had been reached, and that WWE was exploring their options. It is believed that the content will slowly be rolled out on Youtube platforms, of which WWE is suspected to have a favorable deal with Google to post videos on as they're a top performing channel.

WWE noted recently they're working on a non-exclusive host, but sources tell Fightful Select that Youtube does remain a big piece of their plan. There are no plans that we've heard of to simply mass release all their content, unless they reach a deal with a different platform to host their library.

NXT PLE shows and WWE Saturday Night's Main Event remain on Peacock.

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Matt Payne

I saw a bunch of old events were on the coming soon screen for Netflix too

Brendan

Im curious what will happen with full shows that had Chris Benoit, so far I dont think the vault has posted any in full. Not sure what the right move is, but curious

Thad Perkins

I wonder if the hope is that people on YouTube start putting together playlists and content vs. WWE doing it themselves. I always wished there was a way to watch an entire year of programs in chronological order. I hated watching an old RAW then having to jump to the SD playlist and go back and forth until it was time for a PPV then I’d have to go find that PPV playlist and go to the one for that year.

Jake from the Windy City

Conrad Thompson said it best. Not many who subscribed to the WWE Network/Peacock are even interested in the classic library. They prefer NEW and ORIGINAL content to keep them keen to it. The archival content has been proven since the very early days of the WWE network to be a very small percentage of the usage. They can track what is watched, how often, and for how long. Anecdotal evidence is rather irrelevant. If there is value someone will pay.

Bryant Mooney

I believe older WWE PPVs thats been on Netflix internationally for a while I think are becoming available in the US on Netflix but everything else looks like YouTube as they've been doing.

Chris Migliaccio

Any sense of whether they'll move some of the ECW content to Youtube? Would be very into an ECW vault.