Brazilian YouTube personality who lost sponsors over racist World Cup tweet now facing $1.8 million fine
A tweet about Kylian Mbappé could get even more costly for João Cocielo.
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While Fox World Cup ratings fell, the English-Spanish ratings gap grew; ad spend data also shows language divides
The English-Spanish adults 18-49 ratings gap grew from 26 percent (in 2010 and 2014) to 40 percent this year.
Amazon will stream a new documentary on France’s second World Cup championship
The documentary premieres this week in France, but the rest of the world will have to wait until this fall to watch it
The World Cup Final drew the lowest U.S. overnight rating since 2002, but was also the earliest final since 2002
The 8.3 overnight rating was down 14 percent from a 9.7 in 2014, but only slightly down from the 8.6 in 2006 and 2010.
ESPN’s Lego highlights of the World Cup final included everything from VAR to trophy celebrations
Without full highlight rights to this tournament, ESPN had to get creative, and their Lego highlights Sunday were particularly good.
FIFA wants broadcasters to show fewer shots of female fans, says sexism has been a bigger World Cup problem than racism
FIFA apparently wants broadcasters to cut down on the crowd shots of female fans.
Fox seems happy with World Cup ad revenue haul despite having to offer make-goods
Facing a World Cup in a tough time zone without the United States, Fox is still generating plenty of ad revenue.
Saturday marked the most-watched day of World Cup quarterfinals since at least 1990
Croatia-Russia averaged 6,317,000 viewers on Fox, the best World Cup quarterfinal numbers in the U.S. in almost three decades.
With Argentina and Portugal losing, Fox won’t have their dream Messi versus Ronaldo quarterfinal
Fox clearly wanted both of them to advance, and now they have neither.
Telemundo apologizes, suspends two hosts for racist gestures after South Korea’s win over Germany
The hosts apologized on-air today.
Twitter can’t get over how much Fox World Cup match analyst Tony Meola sounds like Troy Aikman
This similarity has been a running theme this tournament, but was particularly noticeable during Tuesday's Nigeria-Argentina match.
Here’s Andres Cantor calling all the goals from Mexico’s 2-1 win over South Korea
Mexico looked great again today, too.
Streaming measurement provider says global peak for World Cup has already passed Super Bowl record by 40 percent
Conviva estimated a peak of 7.7 million global viewers during Argentina-Croatia, up 40 percent over their previous record of 5.5 million during this year's Super Bowl.
Fox shakes up World Cup coverage mid-tournament, axing Lothar Matthäus and adding Martin O’Neill and Clarence Seedorf
Matthäus has been dropped mid-tournament "due to schedule conflicts."
Unsurprisingly, Landon Donovan’s Mexico ad campaigns have led to Twitter backlash and a statement of clarification
Who could have foreseen this drawing backlash?
