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InfROWgraphic: ESPN’s FIFA World Cup traffic on digital platforms

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July 16, 2014

| Paul Melvin

The 2014 FIFA World Cup broke all sorts of records for viewership and consumption in the United States. As Engadget notes, the Internet tended to love the World Cup. It was the most viewed event in WatchESPN’s history. Over the course of the tournament, ESPN.com and ESPNFC logged billions of minutes and hundreds of millions of visits and video views, and the SportsCenter app proved a popular way to follow the action for millions.

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