The EA Sports FIFA 19 Global Series sets a new record for viewership figures
If you like FIFA and you like numbers then this is the news post for you, you lucky person (or persons).
The Global Series regular season events generated over 680 million minutes watched with 61 million total views. Now, I don’t have last year’s numbers to hand, but that’s apparently a 60% increase in minutes watched and a 25% increase on overall views from the previous year, which is a really good return. You can see a full breakdown here if infographics are your thing.
From here the series goes to the playoffs with the Xbox Ladder taking place in Hamburg between July 5 and 7, then the PS4 bracket in berlin from July 12 to 14. 128 players will take part, with 64 per console bracket as they try to advance to the FIFA eWorld Cup and become the eWorld Cup 2019 Champion.
You can find out more information on the series here.
Nick Gillham
Nick is an avid video game entusiast and has been since his mum first allowed him to play on the Atari 2600 she never touched. To this day he's had the pleasure of playing on a vast array of different gaming machines.
He's a recovering WoW-holic and when he's not playing games he's talking about games, reading about games, writing about games, watching videos about games, watching his son play games or chatting rubbish on Twitter.
A lover, not a fighter and an all round good guy (he would say that, he wrote this after all), he's happy to be here as part of GIAG.
