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France 1998
1998
Germany 2006
multilateral HD
widescreen cameras
per match2
125 million
video streams
of online highlights3
1998Brazil 2014
broadcast
in 192 countries &
territories4
viewers–
46.4%
of the global
population5
U.S. viewers
Facial recognition
headsets will scan 400 facial
images in a crowd per second,
comparing 46,000 biometric
points per face to 13 million
faces in a criminal database.10
1998Qatar 2022
Through TV and web broadcasts,
the World Cup will likely reach
the majority of people on Earth.
In its losing bid Japan promised
real-time 3D holographic projections
of World Cup matches, shown in
stadiums around the world.12
Al-Rayyan stadium will do double
duty as a massive screen: a “media
membrane” facade will wrap all
around the outside of the stadium,
showing match coverage.11
While the game at its center has evolved slowly, the World Cup has seen
monumental data infrastructure changes. Alongside substantial growth
in broadcast coverage, rapid advances in mobile technology have given
fans greater and greater data-sharing capabilities—a measure we're
dubbing "spectator bandwidth." Here’s our look back, and forward, at
the increasingly complex data output of the most viewed sporting event
in the world.
The Growth of
World Cup Data
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(3+years) of
worldwide
television
coverage1
of official
online
video
SPECTATOR BANDWIDTH ............................... 2MB
SPECTATOR BANDWIDTH .............................. 30GB
SPECTATOR BANDWIDTH ............................... 2MB
SPECTATOR BANDWIDTH ............................ 12.6TB
SPECTATOR BANDWIDTH .............................. 1.3PB
SPECTATOR BANDWIDTH ..............................
=10,000
73,531sharing a one-minute HD video
final match
attendees
86,250
with wearable devices streaming the
final match in HD
final match
spectators
29K
hours 0hours
(8+years) of
worldwide
television
coverage1
73K
hours
26
3D3D
For the first time, each match will
include aerial & cable system
camera coverage.8
7 high-speed cameras at
each goalmouth will track the
ball’s exact position in 3D.9
79%
expected to watch
3.2
billion
livestream online
Selected matches will be
shot in
4K(4x the pixels of HDTV) and
beamed to cinemas.6 7
Goal-line
technology
debuts
69,000sending a 1.3 megapixel photo
final match
spectators
15,200at the final match sending one text message
each (19% of 80,000 total attendees, based
on 1998 French mobile usage)
mobile-carrying
spectators