• 190 countries broadcast and viewed the America’s Cup on television • America’s Cup broadcast in news bulletins globally 15,000 times • Over 320,000 downloads of the America’s Cup app making it into the top 20 most download free sports app in the USA • Over 1 million visitors to the official public sites in San Francisco at America’s Cup Park and America’s Cup Village. Hundreds of thousands more viewed the racing from the city front • Nearly 10,000 hospitality guests • Over 5 million unique visitors to AmericasCup.com in September and over 45-million page views during the Summer of Racing (July 1 to September 26) • 24.8 million views of videos on YouTube • Over 100 million minutes of videos viewed in the past month • 575 accredited media, from 32 countries • A 19 show America’s Cup Concert Series • Over 25% of the population of New Zealand watched the racing broadcast live during the America’s Cup Finals • 750 volunteers donated 50,000 hours of their time • 1.2 million fans on social media • 21,000 members on the Crew Fan Club • Over 1,000 local business contracted for the event • 17,000 pounds of trash removed from the Bay shoreline by the volunteers of the Healthy Ocean Project
Here are the FIRST for this event.
• First time racing has been held off the city front rather than offshore • First time racing downtown in a major world city • First time – 50 mph – Foiling! • First time there has been an America’s Cup Concert Series
The numbers speak for themselves. Larry got it right!
