Comment on The 2012 Olympics Completely Changed How We Consume Sports

Cork Gaines, Business Insider
Fri, 03/15/2013 - 9:39am

The 2012 Olympics Completely Changed How We Consume Sports

This Associated Press video was presented at this week's SPORTEL conference in Rio and starts with a simple question, "are you adapting?" From there the video takes us on a journey through sports programming and advertising and how those mediums are becoming ever more mobile and social. Some of the numbers are staggering, such as how social media discussion of certain brands grew nearly 1500% after ads for those companies ran during the Olympics.

 

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