The official World Cup site has announced that they will post 2 minute highlight videos of each World Cup match within an hour of the match being completed, and that these videos will be free to view. This is great news, although I still don't quite undertand why they are not offering, for a fee, streaming video of each match like every other major sport is basically doing these days. Are they not savvy enough marketers? Are they not doing this because so many people would subscribe that their servers/site would crash from overuse? Anyhow, the 2 minute highlight videos are better then nothing for some of the matches during the workday.
If you want to catch up on your World Cup history, the official site also has excellent video recaps of every World Cup since 1966, here.
And here is a pretty clever video showing Germany preparing to host the World this summer:
Enjoy.
3 comments:
That was cool. I'd like kto see the "underdog" USA make a run and now that I know Sol & Henry to guide my viewing.
The issue with not running streaming video has to do with the TV money FIFA is getting from around the world. Too many people were concerned that net feeds would cut into TV viewing and FIFA wants to protect that golden goose.
Ahhh - makes sense Phil - thanks for the info.
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