More people watched surfing last year than anything else!
Ex-WSL CEO Paul Speaker is gone and I am poorer for it. He, in trademark polo shirt and white pant, was the perfect foil. A man so out of touch with surfing, so ludicrously ignorant, that it would have been impossible to make him up.
Oh I loved to torment him, always writing that if he would agree to an interview the barrage would stop. He never agreed and, instead, went on Fox Business and said ridiculous things like Kelly Slater makes well north of 20 million dollars a year and more people would someday watch surfing than any other sport.
What a tool! What a goddamn nerd! He didn’t know anything about professional surfing and the small core of people who actually care.
Well, today the industry publication Sports Business Daily reported that the World Surf League had the most watched video, globally, over the last year.
California-based analytics and valuation company Hookit looked at the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram posts of 1,255 leagues, teams and federations across the globe from June 16, 2016-June 15, 2017, and ranked them based on a composite score that took into account factors such as views…
That’s how the story begins and then slides behind a paywall but the title is the only thing we really need.
Data Shows World Surf League Had Most-Watched Video Globally Over Last Year.
Data Shows World Surf League Had Most-Watched Video Globally Over Last Year.
Data Shows World Surf League Had Most-Watched Video Globally Over Last Year.
I have to think it was Mick Fanning being touched by a shark but it was still surfing and Paul Speaker was right.
Mr. Ex-WSL CEO? Can I bring two roses to your house alongside my apology?
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well jeez! I bet Samsung feels really silly now!
Well shit everyone laughed off Trump and then all of a sudden he became prez. This is 2017 in a nutshell.
if you look at your favorite website the inertia, the: WSL video that got the most
hits is of a pod of dolphins –nothing to do with surfing
You can say that again!
If you look at your favorite website ‘the Inertia’–it was a ‘pod of dolphins’ that got all the WSL hits–nothing to do with surfing…..
Science shows shark slugging stirs some seeing of slouching surfing sport. Slamdunk Speaker!
I’d say fuckin’ a man, but fuckin’ s seems superber speak!
no, check it out, Hookit analyzed the data from 1255 sports from underwater needlepoint to rock balancing, surfing smoked them all.
That and/or the Ziffs hard earned is funding YouTube loop bots from India
well, based on the views for anything that doesn’t contain a shark trying to eat a competitor, those bots must have unionized and gone on strike
They will be chumming the water in Tahiti as of now no??
Will you accept my apology for calling you a “suck up”? That wasn’t very nice and I apologize
Very cheeky. And spreadingly so in a way too.
Don’t let the “Data” fool you, we surfers are notorious for needing to watch the same video 7-10 times over before our brains fully digest the visual content. We’re easily distrac…….oh look shiney penny!
That is so true
Meanwhile, in back rooms worldwide, WSL minions work tirelessly on plan to incorporate shark slalom into contests.
It took ’em a long time before they finally realised how good sharks were for business….wonder when Joe got the memo?
ah sharks are great for business , and also crowd control , we should make the shark the patron saint of surfing!