Previous to the beginning of the Paris 2024 Olympics in July, GeoPoll, in collaboration with mediaReach OMD, performed a survey to evaluate public perceptions across the video games. The examine was carried out utilizing GeoPoll’s cellular internet platform, surveying greater than 2,250 respondents in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Matters coated included consciousness of the video games, curiosity, viewing intentions, favourite occasions, media consumption habits, betting developments, and perceptions of the occasion’s cultural and social influence.
Following the Closing Ceremony on 11 August, 2024, GeoPoll and mediaReach OMD reached out to respondents in Ghana and Nigeria once more to discover how their precise viewership of the video games in comparison with their pre-Olympics’ curiosity and intentions. The follow-up survey additionally assessed respondents’ intention to observe the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. This publish particulars findings from the follow-up survey.
Viewership of the Paris 2024 Olympics
Within the Pre-Olympics Survey, 97% of respondents in Nigeria and 92% of respondents in Ghana stated they supposed to observe the 2024 Paris Olympics. Though dropping barely, the share of respondents that stated they did watch the video games stays exceptionally excessive. Virtually all respondents in Nigeria declare to have watched (95%) together with 86% of respondents in Ghana.
The slight lower in precise viewership versus intent could also be partially defined by the truth that a majority of respondents stated there have been main happenings or information that affected their viewership of the video games.
Throughout nations, the occasions respondents had been most all in favour of watching embrace soccer, athletics, basketball, swimming, and boxing. Soccer was by far the most well-liked occasion in Nigeria (51%) whereas Athletics was the most well-liked in Ghana (49%).
The fanfare of the Opening Ceremony drew a majority share of respondents in each Ghana (50%) and Nigeria (62%). A fair bigger share tuned in to observe their most popular video games or occasions (72% in Ghana and 63% in Nigeria).
On the subject of following their favourite occasions, respondents are more likely to observe all the occasion than to simply tune in for the quarterfinals, semifinals, finals, and/or medal ceremony.
Curiosity within the video games goes past borders. Respondents in Ghana and Nigeria had been simply as possible if no more more likely to watch or observe video games or occasions that athletes from different nations had been partaking in than occasions with athletes from their very own nation.
With the US topping the gold and total medal depend, it follows that almost all of respondents watched video games or occasions involving US athletes. Pleasure across the gold medal match in males’s soccer between Spain and France, the boys’s basketball ultimate between the US and France, the ladies’s soccer ultimate between the US and Brazil, and the ladies’s soccer bronze medal match between Germany and Spain assist to clarify the big variety of respondents that watched occasions involving these nations.
Media Consumption Habits
TV was the machine of selection for watching the video games, adopted by cell phone. Watching through cell phone was notably standard in Nigeria (68%). The highest three platforms for watching the video games in Nigeria had been DStv (51%), streaming websites (51%), and GOtv (44%). In Ghana, the highest three platforms had been DStv (46%), streaming websites (44%), and terrestrial tv stations (40%).
Respondents primarily watched the video games reside on TV moderately than catching up through replays or information highlights.
By way of setting, most respondents watched the video games…
Viewership elevated all through the day, with the very best share of respondents watching within the evenings from 6pm to 11pm.
Olympics Sports activities Betting
Betting on the Olympics primarily adopted expectations main as much as the video games. Within the Pre-Olympic Wurvey, 42% of respondents in Ghana stated they anticipated to take part in betting. After the video games, 45% stated that they did take part. In Nigeria, 61% anticipated to wager in comparison with 59% that truly did.
The preferred betting platforms in Ghana had been SportyBet (63%), Betway (18%), and 1XBET (8%). In Nigeria the most well-liked platforms had been Bet9ja (35%), SportyBet (28%), BetKing (11%), and 1XBET (11%).
Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games had been held from 28 August to eight September. Previous to the video games, most respondents in Ghana had been conscious that Ghana could be taking part within the video games (75%). Consciousness climbed to 83% in Nigeria. Nearly all of respondents in each nations stated they had been at the least considerably more likely to observe the video games.
Los Angeles 2028 Olympics
Trying forward, 72% of respondents in Ghana and 67% of respondents in Nigeria stated they’re more likely to watch or observe the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Disappointment of their workforce’s success in Paris, notably for followers in Nigeria, is probably going dampening pleasure for Los Angeles. When requested if their probability to observe the 2028 Olympics would change if there was an excellent illustration of Ghanaian/Nigerian athletes, 66% of respondents in Ghana and 79% in Nigeria stated that it might.
Along with desirous to see an excellent illustration of native athletes, virtually all respondents stated they wish to see extra native manufacturers affiliate with the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Olympics Fan Experiences
Followers have all the time performed a significant function in sport, and in the case of the Olympics, the shared experiences of followers assist deliver collectively total nations in assist of their athletes. Whereas fan experiences have historically revolved across the reside occasion and enviornment of the video games, fan experiences at present could be each bodily and digital, extending past the borders of the host nation into the properties, bars, screens, and public areas of taking part nations around the globe.
In our examine, we requested respondents how they’d be in attending official Olympics fan experiences for the 2028 Olympics of their house metropolis, comparable to public viewings, interactive displays, athlete meet-and-greets, and so forth.
In each Ghana and Nigeria, most charge their curiosity in fan experiences as both very or extraordinarily .
About This Survey
GeoPoll performed this survey, in collaboration with mediaReach OMD, utilizing its proprietary cellular internet analysis platform. The survey reached 1,176 respondents, leveraging the OMD Shopper Intelligence (OCI) panel in Ghana and Nigeria.
Knowledge assortment occurred from 21-27 August, 2024.
The varied pattern for the examine features a gender composition of 73% male and 36% feminine, and an age breakdown of 8% ages 18-24, 53% ages 25-34, and 40% ages 35 and older.
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To view the detailed report with findings and insights gathered previous to the 2024 Paris Olympics, please go to the OMD Shopper Intelligence Platform or obtain the report right here: https://www.mediareachomd.com/olympicsreport
