Have you heard about this little kick about taking place between 32 nations across the pond in Brazil? No?
It’s called the 2014 World Cup and it’s going to be the “most social event in history” making brands a great deal of money.
But being marketers we ask questions like how much, spent where and on what? To try and answer some of those questions and put the World Cup marketing into context I have collated 25 facts, figures and stats associated with the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. These have been loosely categorised into four main areas.
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The Audience
400 million people are expected to see the contest’s final match on July 13th.
Source: Futures Sport + Entertainment
Each of the 64 games will garner viewership roughly equivalent to the Super Bowl.
Source: Futures Sport + Entertainment
Searches related to the World Cup tournament in the past four years have outnumbered those for the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and the Tour de France combined.
Source: Google
86% of UK millennial internet users planned to follow the World Cup frequently—either regularly or all the time—via the TV set.
Source: Voxburner
Facebook estimates 500-million of its 1.28-billion users are soccer fans, including 110-million men aged 13-34 in big markets — a demographic coveted by advertisers.
Source: Facebook
37% of soccer fans worldwide said they interacted with a mobile ad daily in order to get more information about a product or service.
Source: eMarketer
Search & Social
In 2010, about 18% of football-related searches during the World Cup final were done on a mobile device, according the. Compare that with 2014, when nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of those searches during a popular UEFA Champions League match were done on mobile.
Source: Google
World Cup ads have thus far attracted 6.9m shares across social media, 31.4 per cent more than the 4.7m notched up by the Super Bowl.
Source: Unruly
When Cristiano Ronaldo, part of Nike’s World Cup push, tweeted Nike’s second World Cup ad, released on its YouTube page, it caused a surge in views that topped 70m in days.
Source: Bloomberg
There have been more tweets about the 2014 World Cup, before a ball has been kicked, than for the entire tournament in 2010.
Source: Twitter
Marketing Spend
For the 2010 World Cup just 20% of marketing spend was digital.
Source: The Guardian
“About half of Adidas’ media expenditure around the event will go online, versus the fifth which was spent during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.”
Source: Adidas CEO, Herbert Hainer
Marketing spends for the 2014 event are being reported as hitting an estimated $1.3 billion, with an increased share going to digital.
Source: The Guardian
There could be as much as $2.3bn spent on World Cup TV advertising globally.
Source: Group M
World Cup sponsors spent £20.8m on TV advertising in the UK – which pretty much means ITV, as the holder of the commercial TV rights.
Source: Nielsen
By 2018, when the quadrennial tournament is scheduled to take place in Russia, advertisers will spend 17 percent more on Web ads than on TV, the researcher predicts.
Source: eMarketer
Corporations will spend about $68.5 billion on TV this year and $56 billion online.
Source: eMarketer
Digital ad spending in Brazil will jump 28.0% this year and reach nearly $5 billion on digital media by 2018.
Source: eMarketer
The Revenue
Visitors to the World Cup event will spend over $11bn (£6.6bn) in the country.
Source: The Brazilian Institute of Tourism
Fifa predicts that it will collect around $4bn from Brazil 2014.
Source: Fifa
Pannni, makers of football stickers, predicts they will make £127.3m from South American sales alone.
Source: Reuters
Domino’s are estimated to make a tasty £84m from pizza sales in the UK during the World Cup.
Source: Neilsen
Sportswear manufacturers expect are expecting revenues of between $12.6bn and $14.5bn.
Source: Reuters
William Hill has already forecast revenues of more than £200m from this year’s World Cup in Brazil.
Source: The Drum
ITV is on track to make £70m more in TV advertising between April and July this year than last year, and could charge as much as £300,000 for coveted slots in England games.
Source: The Guardian
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