Find out what the world wants to know during the World Cup with Google Trends

As the World Cup launches, content consumption will increase for many websites especially those focused on news and sports. As can be seen from the statistics below, soccer fever is about to take hold:

• The World Cup is the largest, most connected global sporting event. Worldwide, it has more interest on Google Search than the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and the Tour de France combined.*

• In 2010, about 18% of searches for games, players and teams during the World Cup final were made on a mobile device. Compare that with 2014, when 63% of similar searches during a popular UEFA Champions League match were made on mobile. We’re likely to see this trend continue during this year’s World Cup.**
• Looking at a 30-day period this year, more hours of soccer content have been watched on YouTube than were broadcast during the entire 2010 World Cup—over 900 times the amount.***
• In that time, 64.7 million hours of soccer video were watched on YouTube globally.***
• 1.6 billion views of soccer content on YouTube globally.***

Views of Sports Videos on YouTube, April 13–May 13 ***

Source: 

* - Source: Google Data, January 1, 2010–May 14, 2014, Indexed Search Query Volume, Worldwide

** -Source:  https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/2014-world-cup.html 

*** - Source: Google Data, April 13–May 13, 2014, Indexed Video Views, Worldwide

Connect with your users as they enjoy the games, and potentially drive more traffic to your site. With google.com/worldcup, tailor your site’s content with the latest insights and most popular trends as they emerge during the tournament. Here’s some examples of the types of insights you can expect from Google Trends over the coming weeks: 

• Sentiment: Explore how an entire country is feeling, whether optimistic or anxious. Sentiment will be captured across search trends and public Google+ conversations.
  
• World focus: For every match, discover which team is capturing the world's attention in Search. 
• Top questions: Do your users want to know more about a penalty kick? They’re probably not the only ones. Check out trending questions from every competing country before and after kickoff.
• Rising players: Find out the players to watch and how they rank in search compared with their teammates.

Check out google.com/worldcup now and make sure you’ve got the latest information when creating your content. Whether it’s insight on how a country is feeling ahead of a big match, or where fans stand on a referee’s decision. 

Tailor your content to what’s capturing your users interests right now with the latest insights from google.com/worldcup.

Viva La World Cup!

Posted by Chris Jones - Audience Development Specialist

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This blog post was adapted from content originally posted on the Inside Search blog.