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Yahoo World Cup Site Draws 4.2 Billion Views, Streams 138 Million Videos

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 13, 2006 - 2:54pm.
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo on Thursday announced that its official FIFA World Cup website drew over 4.2 billion page views and streamed over 138 million video highlights during the past month. The site attracted more than 2 billion page views in the tournament's first two weeks -- topping total hits for the entire 2002 tournament -- and by the end of the final match, had more than doubled page views counted in 2002. Yahoo added that its World Cup mobile Web destination drew 73 million page views during the tournament, while the World Cup section of its Flickr photo-sharing site drew 3.5 million photo page views. Yahoo also counted 875,000 new sign-ups for its free fantasy soccer game at FIFAWorldCup.com.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060713/20060713005271.html?.v=1
http://www.fifaworldcup.com

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