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- As the FIFA World Cup 2018 reaches its climax, figures emerge showing that record numbers of people streamed the quarterfinal games, but many of these attempts failed.
- As the FIFA World Cup 2018 reaches its climax, figures emerge showing that record numbers of people streamed the quarterfinal games, but many of these attempts failed.
International media rating measurement service Conviva recorded 75.8 million attempts to stream the games, but over 15% of these attempts failed. Around 63.5 million plays or around 23.3 million hours were viewed successfully.
The Uruguay versus France match was the most streamed game of the quarterfinals, making up over a third of the total traffic. There were 30.7 million attempts to watch this game and 25.4 million of these were streamed successfully. The Sweden versus England game saw 21.9 million attempts to stream it, resulting in 18 million plays. The Russia versus Croatia game had 12 million attempted streams and 10.5 million plays and the Belgium win over Brazil had 11.1 million attempted views and 9.5 million plays.
Problems streaming the games would have most commonly been the result of content delivery networks not being able to deal with the sheer volume of traffic travelling over their systems. It's likely that the vast numbers of people trying to tune in at the same time caused the rebuffering ratio that reached 1.8%, which is high when compared to Conviva’s quarter 1 2018 average of 0.88%. You experience rebuffering when content takes a long time to load.
Some viewers would have noticed problems with latency too, which causes a delay of a few seconds so that content is not experienced live. This has led to some frustrated football fans reporting that they heard their neighbours cheering a goal before they saw and heard it on their screens.
The content delivery networks will be working hard to improve their technology to ensure that streams of the FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022 will be 100% successful.
