An unexpected growth market!
Oh I do know that the World Surf League’s Facebook rollout was much ballyhooed and maybe even historically ballyhooed but there were some great moments. Some fantastic moments, even, caught in amongst the glitches and angry emoji face storm. Like, tracking the number of people watching professional surfing at the very same exact time that you yourself were watching professional surfing.
The number hung up there in the corner moving from the low 2000s to the upper 7000s or the upper hundreds to the mid 3000s (depending on the sex of the surfers). Always a reminder that you are not alone in your passions. Literally thousands (upper hundreds at worst) of others, dotted around this fractured globe, sharing time alone together.
I think thousands of people is so very many but the World Surf League was, apparently, embarrassed and issued a statement that read:
There has been much conversation about the concurrent viewership number displayed in the top-left corner of our live broadcast.
The number displayed on your stream does not represent the total concurrent audience viewing the event. Because we’re serving localized ads against our programming, what you’re seeing is the audience total for the regional stream that you’re connected to.
The total cumulative audience will be defined as the summation of all regional streams across all platforms and connected devices.
In short, what you’re seeing is a much lower number of people viewing than actually are.
Except… by setting up virtual private networks (VPNs) around the fractured globe a lonely boy or girl could theoretically test this assertion, right? Well, it turns out that the “number displayed not representing the total concurrent audience viewing the event” never changed. A true miracle that the same exact number of people were watching professional surfing at the exact same time in Europe, in Australia, in North and in South America and, maybe surprisingly, on the great subcontinent.
Of course this does not account for the thousands more watching on their temporarily reborn WSL app but I think the World Surf League should not be ashamed. I think they should be thrilled by the continuity.
Also, they should be thrilled by professional surfing’s growth in the second and sixth most populous country on earth.
India and neighboring Pakistan!
It seemed a good 75% of the “likes” on the live Corona J-Bay Women’s Open feed came from this region and this, alone, should have been enough to send champagne corks flying into the air at the WSL’s Santa Monica headquarters. Herr Paul Speaker was right! Billions and billions will soon be enjoying professional surfing!
What a red letter day.
Etc!
The WSL is doing a great job and MP is a good commentator too.
We need these replays of each contest because as we all know surfing has never had much airtime on TV,and more people will tune in when they hear more about surfing.hopefully most won’t take up the sport though as the lineups r pretty crowded these days,AS far as India ,Pakistan etc,can’t see them doing any more than the occasional viewing as the majority are focussed on just surviving and getting that next meal.
Depression sets in when your personal sorrow is turned into click-bait.
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ha ha ha what thew fuck does this mean?is there a legion of Indians or Pakistanies at some short of creepy hangar giving likes ..?
Imagine how many hits and new viewers throughout Asia and Africa FB/WSL will get when the “Air Party” tour starts!!
All these new viewers having just got used to seeing surfing on a wave, will now see their new heros in the air and wonder what the fuck is going on!!! Oh it will be glorious.
Just like the world cup – No China, No India. C’mon surf biz there’s another 3 billion god damn kooks out there!
Call me Ismail.
Never mind all that shit. Look at Rosie. At least she knows how to sit on a couch. Meanwhile Pottz is a blatant edge sitter. Has been since day one. Why? Why is Pottz an edge sitter? Has no-one ever taught him how to sit? Is he like Chuck Norris, always in a state of readiness to attack? Is he alert not alarmed, on the watch for suspicious activity that made indicate terrorism is afoot? #edgesitter #solvethemystery
If they’re going to hire click farms they could have padded the numbers a little more than that w/ out making it look too obvious..
Yeah. That was kind of my point. Obviously they are doing it but why not make it count?
Yes – like in any sport if you are going to take a penalty in hitting somebody you might as well fuck them up.
Even 39 Indian bots were pissed at how shitty the stream was!
You know what really gives Indians a massive hard/wide on? Mountains. Every IT consultant from Cyberabad to Bho-fricken-pal spends their hard-earned/ill-gotten rupees on headin’ to them there hills! Which makes sense given they have awesome mountains and occasionally okay surf. The Inertia could have told you all this of course.
I like the Grand Tetons as much as anyone and object to your racial stereotyping of Indians as loving mountains any more than white, Justin Beiber loving suburbanites.
So you want him to be an Indian giver and take back his “its a given” comment?
That is an insane term in light of the white’s actions in breaking treaty after treaty and taking back land they gave to the native americans that was actually theirs to begin with.
Native American is a colonial term. I believe they prefer you refer to them by Tribe, Nation.
For a minute there I thought you were expressing your appreciation of “ large nipples “ ( rough English translation of the French words Grand Tetons )
I love what you said which just increased my admiration for both those mountains of rubble in Wyoming and the mountains of joy on women’s bodies everywhere.
get rosy on screen in a more tropical location and you will get a lot more than 474 viewers.
or just remove pottz
Agreed with both points. Pottz looks like he’s in the process of rolling a black condom on*.
*Pro tip boys; get the black ones. It makes you appear ‘bigger’.
Through all the useless platitudes and corpo surf jargon she’s still super sexy. If she’d just be a normal chick and rock a bikini in the post heat pressers ratings would be sick.
Facebook is a good platform for stalking exes, but seriously degrading as a pro surfing fan. Steaming turd emoji.
Here you go
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If WSL had their marketing game together, they’d just pay for clicks, likes and comments to boost their numbers. Like everyone else. They’re so honest!
I’m assuming that’s what Chas is saying is happening.
I just don’t know who’s trolling who anymore.
Edit: *whom?
Whom’s trolling whom
For whom the bell trolls.
Whom made whom?
The Whom?
Except they didn’t want to pay for the “Fake English Name Profiles” Package.
A shame, because I’m offering a discount package on that service this week.
And they can’t seem to pay them to watch.