World Cup Stats: Records For BBC, New Territory For ITV
– The BBC World Cup site got an average 5.9 million unique UK users per week during the tournament, peaking at 9 million in week two (sourc… Read more »
Univision, ESPN: 25 Million-Plus Hours Of World Cup Games Watched Online
The World Cup is over — and the final digital numbers are in from ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Univision, both of which made big plays for online a… Read more »
Stats: How ESPN’s World Cup Traffic Is Shaping Up
photo: Corbis
With the World Cup final coming Sunday, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) provided us with an update on how much traffic its digital properties have generate… Read more »
Stats: Five Percent Of English Soccer Viewers Watched Match Online
Let’s hope broadcasters have got their CDNs in order – this summer’s World Cup is proving a genuine watershed for live online TV streaming.… Read more »
Yahoo’s Winning The World Cup Contest In U.S.
Over a third of visitors to the leading World Cup-related sites in the U.S. are going to Yahoo’s site, according to Hitwise, which monitors… Read more »
World Cup vs Olympics: How The Next Big Tournament’s Shaping Up Online
photo: Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa
“It’s an appropriate time to compare what we’re doing against the World Cup,” Alex Balfour, the new media head of the London Organising Com… Read more »
Online, Mobile Video Scores In World Cup
It will be a while before we get the full stats for online and mobile viewing during the FIFA World Cup 2010 but we already know some of the… Read more »
World Cup In Numbers: Digital Stats For The Greatest Show On Earth
Here’s how the 2010 World Cup in South Africa plays out by the numbers online…
– Five million UK adults will watch matches online at hom… Read more »
World Cup Mobile TV May Miss The Goal
The BBC and London 2012 are planning to make mobile a significant feature of the Olympics in two years’ times. Until then, will this summer’… Read more »
Yahoo Pulls Beckham From Sidelines For World Cup Campaign
Poor David Beckham. Injured out of this World Cup, England’s icon is relegated back to his more frequent role nowadays of selling his image… Read more »
Mobile Expected To Be The Big Winner At World Cup 2010
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa will kick off on June 11, and many expect the series of games to be a tipping point for mobile — and mo… Read more »
World Cup Soccer Players Stopped From Using Social Media
In the age of transparency, one workers’ union leader has already ruffled feathers by tweeting updates from negotiations with employers. Now… Read more »
ITV Formalising Twin-Screen Strategy; First Stop: World Cup
We’ve written a couple of times on how ITV (LSE: ITV) is getting increasingly turned on by the phenomenon of social updates and online engag… Read more »
Nevermind 3D, Could This Be The Connected-TV World Cup?
Verdicts may not be expected until next week on the BBC-proposed Canvas connected-TV standard – but home electronics makers are already brin… Read more »
Univision To Live Stream All World Cup Games
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Univision will be live streaming all 64 games of this year’s World Cup, as part of an its online sports push to coincide with the event. The… Read more »
ESPN Begins Cross Media Research Program Ahead Of Summer’s World Cup Coverage
photo: Corbis / Paulo Fonesca
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is following a number of industry efforts to improve audience measurement that began last year with its own collective rese… Read more »
Brands Bet On Social Media, Not TV, For World Cup Marketing
Big league advertisers and agencies are banking on the football World Cup in South Africa next summer — and the Olympics in 2012 — to give… Read more »
Soccer World Cup Will Spur Mobile TV Adoption — In Africa
The mobile industry is always looking for the next big event, such as the Olympics, March Madness or the inauguration, to usher in the next… Read more »
BSkyB Lobbies For World Cup, FA Cup Final TV, Online Rights
The FA Cup Final has been shown on free-to-air terrestrial TV for the best part of 50 years — but all that could change if BSkyB (NYSE: BSY… Read more »
EA Launches New Titles; FIFA Interactive World Cup Competition In India In Jan
With the festive season just around the corner, Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has announced the launch of a bunch of games in India – Need fo… Read more »
