Hi All, Just wondering if you guys and girls experienced any drop in revenue due to the world cup ? I think it affected my websites, especially last night (the final), i had a real strong start to the day, then in the evening earnings and traffic dropped. Anyway well done to Italy, and I am glad its over.
im sure it affected some sites, especially in the afternoon, they said 1billion people around the world were watching worldcup/or at worldcup functions
That was my point ash1, any major world wide event should mean more distractions for surfers. I see exactley the same at the weekends, when normal/sane people are out enjoying their free time etc.
I have 3 small sites about top soccer players and they are all in the top 5 on Google searches, so my revenue is skyrocket during the world cup making more than 15x average revenue. /askhoej
The U.S. Fourth of July endless weekend- from Friday until Tuesday this year- caused a definite drop in mine.
Good for you askhoej. May I enquire, how long before the world cup did you establish these sites ? Neil
I can't be sure if the World cup hurt or not, because of the 4th of July holiday in the U.S. and Canada Day in Canada. Regardless of how much any one of these impacts effected my traffic last week, it was way down as was my AdSense eCPM. It seems that as of today things are back to normal.
Sure, the sites where made 7 months before the world cup - but it did not take that long time to get in the top 5 on G. /askhoej
I had a sharp drop (~33%) on a german website. Everybody (me included) was either public-viewing soccer or drunk ;-)
I am sure the world cup would have affected sites with more European traffic. I guess it would not have done badly for US traffic though.