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An Audience That’s All to Play For

charlie gordon

Image: Jason Bagley via Flickr


global audience

aside from tv

brand wars
the #1 ranked TV sport in the world…

Kantar Media TGI Global 2010


Many parts…

UK: 36% planned to


follow the World Cup

Sport+ UK
…versus one giant whole

UK: 57% will


follow 2012

Sport+ UK
an involved audience…
South Africa
- 4 of top 5 audiences since 2005
- Final three times audience for
2006 final

Spain
- 2nd highest ever audience

Netherlands
getty images, fifa.com - highest ever audience

Figs from FIFA audience reports compiled by


land of opportunity…

record audiences in USA

final most watched ‘soccer’


game ever - 23.8m

Image: dundasfc via Flickr


1% audience
c.
growth!
Image: sdotcruz via Flickr
away from TV…
2010
streaming…

50% increase in UK net traffic ENG v SVN


800k BBC live online streams

ESPN3.com live streams to 6.9m uu


biggest live event ever on ESPN3.com

Image: warrenski via Flickr


social media on side…

3,283 tweets per second


Japan v Denmark, Group E
not forgetting facebook…

20% update status pre-game

12% during

25% after

Src: IAB/ ESPN


Image: Reuters

smartphone use, 1st half, eng v usa


younger age group set the trend

% in Europe following football by…

Q. You said that you follow each of the sports listed below. Please select the relevant options in
each column to indicate how you interact with each one – Football. Base: Football Fans (Europe)
brand wars
…could not pick out a
40% World Cup sponsor
before the tournament

1,249 UK football followers April-May 2010


the official winners…

34%
40%

28% 29%
999 UK football followers June-July 2010
benefits are hard won in crowded markets…

% much more/ somewhat more likely to


use

UK football followers Apr-May, Jun-July, Aug 2010


19.4m YouTube views

Spontaneous during World


Cup: Nike 21%, Adidas 21%
getting it right…

Consistency

Relevance

Interest

Tactics
An Audience That’s All To Play For
global impact of the 2010 FIFA world cup

charlie gordon

Image: Jason Bagley via Flickr

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