Study: World Cup To Boost Aussie Ad Spend By $8 Million
In Australia, Zenith estimates an additional $8 million will be spent during the World Cup, which kicks off on 14 June.
Zenith Australia CEO Nickie Scriven said,“The incremental investment into the Australian market for the World Cup is quite small, relative to other countries.
“The local official broadcaster SBS has signed all five of its broadcast sponsorships, including TAB, Hyundai, Hisense, Adidas and Mitre 10, with each package worth an estimated $1.5 million.”
Globally, the World Cup creates very valuable opportunities for advertisers.
Television coverage of its matches attracts huge audiences across the world – about 3.5 billion people viewing at home in more than 200 countries – during a season when, in the northern hemisphere at least, television audiences are typically at their annual low point.
As well as producing large audiences – in some countries, the largest of the year – the World Cup disproportionately attracts people who are hard to reach on television: young, upmarket and mobile consumers who are more likely to spend their time outside the home and adopt the latest media technologies.
For brands, the World Cup offers a unique opportunity to reach these consumers at scale, during shared public occasions they are emotionally involved in.
Because of the time zones in which the matches will take place, about 40 per cent of the potential audience will be asleep when they are played.
This means viewers will seek out alternative ways of viewing matches.
While for some this may simply mean watching matches broadcast on time delay, or viewing time-shifted live matches, young sports fans in particular have become used to viewing small nuggets of games on social media.
Social media will play a greater role in viewing the World Cup than ever before, but in moments rather than full matches.
The matches themselves are only part of the story.
The World Cup is great at starting conversations, and here social media will also play a vital role as fans discuss matches in real time and share their favourite moments later.
Zenith expects heavy paid social activity around the matches as brands seek to join the conversation.
The tournament will also create extra traffic for news and sports sites, and extra searches, so will boost wider online advertising beyond social media.
Newspapers are likely to sell more copies during the Cup, and football-related out-of-home campaigns will be prominent, particularly around the stadiums where the matches take place.
Russia will benefit from a US$64 million ad spend boost, representing 2.1 per cent of all Russian advertising expenditure in 2018.
As hosts, Russians will be particularly enthusiastic about the competition, and will enjoy the most convenient match scheduling – viewers in other time zones will have to watch at less suitable times of day.
The biggest boost in dollar terms will be in China, where Zenith expects the World Cup to generate US$835 million in extra ad spend, or 1.0 per cent of the entire ad market.
There are few established brand relationships with the Word Cup in China, and this year advertisers have been aggressively bidding to establish their association with football.
Some advertisers that had been planning to cut back their expenditure on television decided to increase it instead specifically to take advantages of the opportunities offered by the World Cup.
So for brands in China this will be the most important World Cup yet, despite the absence of the Chinese national team.
Zenith expects the US to receive a US$400 million boost to ad spend this year.
The US team’s failure to qualify for this Cup, for the first time in more than three decades, is likely to reduce audiences, particularly given the large time differences with Russia.
Zenith believes the event will boost the US market by just 0.2 per cent of total annual expenditure this year.
Zenith head of forecasting and director of global intelligence Jonathan Barnard said, “The World Cup provides a reliable boost to the global ad market every four years, and will be responsible for 10 per cent of all the growth in ad dollars this year.”
“This year’s tournament will showcase the brand-building powers of both traditional television and social media.”
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