A peak audience of 24 million watched as Argentina knocked out England in their FIFA World Cup semi-final match on July 15th across BBC One and BBC iPlayer, giving the BBC an 85 per cent share of all TV viewing. It was the most-watched live television moment of the year across all broadcasters and the […]
The World Cup semi-final between France and Spain on July 14th attracted 20.24 million viewers for M6 in France. According to ratings body Médiamétrie, 73.1 per cent of the French audience over 4 years-old and 86.3 per cent of women under 50 saw the match. The game reached a level not attained in the two […]
Ahead of England’s FIFA World Cup 2026 quarter-final win over Norway, fans flocked online to watch the iconic anthems Three Lions, Wonderwall and Hey Jude – making July 11th the most-watched day for these respective music videos so far. Music video network Vevo analysed UK viewing habits and saw the following surges compared to daily […]
ITV has reported that a peak audience of 18 million viewers watched its coverage of England’s FIFA World Cup 2026 quarter-final victory against Norway on July 11th, the biggest peak audience for the broadcaster since the Euro 2024 Final on July 14th 2024. The audience is the highest on any channel or streamer this year, […]
Analysis of anonymised and aggregated O2 network data has revealed that activity across Tinder, Hinge, Bumble and Grindr consistently spikes whenever referees pause play for hydration breaks during FIFA World Cup 2026 matches, before dropping again as soon as the football gets back underway. During England’s victory over Mexico on July 6th, dating app traffic […]
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 readies to enter the Quarter-Finals phase, tournament-related content has so far generated 146.8 billion views across social video since the start of the event on June 11th according to data from Tubular Labs. Somewhat unsurprisingly, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have proven to be significant content drivers on social […]
Gravity Media, a specialist in production, content, media services and facilities, is powering an innovative reverse remote production setup for ITV’s FIFA Football World Cup coverage, connecting Gravity Media’s London Production Centre with ITV Sport’s live studio operations in New York through a fully integrated workflow. In this three-hub production model, match feeds are received via the International Broadcast Center in Dallas and transmitted to Gravity Media’s London Production Centre, where production galleries […]
Reaching for the remote and hitting mute has become a match-day ritual for millions of UK football fans – and a new generation is rewriting how the game sounds at home. A study of 2,002 UK consumers, commissioned by AO, found that among football fans, almost half of them (49 per cent) admit to muting […]
While millions of football fans worldwide watched the FIFA World Cup Round of 16 match between Argentina and Egypt on July 7th, data traffic across DE-CIX’s global Internet Exchanges reached a new all-time high. Aat 8:05 p.m. CEST (6:05 p.m. UTC), a new record of 29.517 terabits per second (Tbit/s) was measured – the highest […]
England’s 3-2 World Cup triumph over Mexico in the early hours of July 6th sparked the biggest day ever recorded for BBC iPlayer, for the BBC Sport website and app and for BBC Sport’s social video views, as millions of fans turned to the BBC to follow a night of dramatic football. The Round of […]