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Just remembered the LIV Tour second round is in progress, so put it on. The feed started an hour ago, Viewers are currently at around 38,000. The maximum I personally noticed it yesterday was just over 100,000, though that was probably between 4-5pm. Not sure what it went to after 5pm, as I went up to my club for a bit of practice.

Will be interesting to see if viewing figures get to same level today, or if yesterday was higher due to the initial hype.
 
Swango1980 said:
Just remembered the LIV Tour second round is in progress, so put it on. The feed started an hour ago, Viewers are currently at around 38,000. The maximum I personally noticed it yesterday was just over 100,000, though that was probably between 4-5pm. Not sure what it went to after 5pm, as I went up to my club for a bit of practice.

Will be interesting to see if viewing figures get to same level today, or if yesterday was higher due to the initial hype.
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I know a lot of people who only watch golf events the last 9 holes of an event as that's when the action starts

I reckon prime viewing will be end of day

America ones will get more views due to timing
 
Re: viewing figures - 100k plus for the Youtube UK channel, difficult to know if that's success or not. Better than some predicted, but for the money involved, the global figures will be of more interest; like Netflix I suspect LIV will keep this quiet initially.

I think a 2.15pm start on a Thursday and Friday is a hard sell to a UK audience; most golf fans (not all) will be at work and may not be able to access the coverage; Finishing on a Saturday also means some golf fans will miss out as they are playing golf.

As live streams go, Sky are offering the Curtis Cup, Scandi Mixed and the Canadian - total audience of 2.5k (2.1k + 200 + 200) vs 43k watching LIV.... although there could be a few 100k watching SKY on actual TV in the UK so the comparison isn't really like for like. I think at this stage it appears as if there's room for both the PGA Tour and LIV without either throwing their toys out of the pram. The Asian Tour will have more say in the coming months; the DPWT is probably done unless they decide to break their alliance with the PGA Tour and talk to LIV about memberships and releases.
 
rksquire said:
Re: viewing figures - 100k plus for the Youtube UK channel, difficult to know if that's success or not. Better than some predicted, but for the money involved, the global figures will be of more interest; like Netflix I suspect LIV will keep this quiet initially.
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I was hoping to see what the total viewers was over the entire broadcast. As I said, I saw over 100,000 live at any given time, but I'm not sure many came and went. Sadly, I don't think viewers can see the Total Viewing figure over the entire broadcast, or I've just not found it.
 
rksquire said:
Re: viewing figures - 100k plus for the Youtube UK channel, difficult to know if that's success or not. Better than some predicted, but for the money involved, the global figures will be of more interest; like Netflix I suspect LIV will keep this quiet initially.

I think a 2.15pm start on a Thursday and Friday is a hard sell to a UK audience; most golf fans (not all) will be at work and may not be able to access the coverage; Finishing on a Saturday also means some golf fans will miss out as they are playing golf.

As live streams go, Sky are offering the Curtis Cup, Scandi Mixed and the Canadian - total audience of 2.5k (2.1k + 200 + 200) vs 43k watching LIV.... although there could be a few 100k watching SKY on actual TV in the UK so the comparison isn't really like for like. I think at this stage it appears as if there's room for both the PGA Tour and LIV without either throwing their toys out of the pram. The Asian Tour will have more say in the coming months; the DPWT is probably done unless they decide to break their alliance with the PGA Tour and talk to LIV about memberships and releases.
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Is the Liv golf YouTube channel geo blocked? I reckon that will include US viewers too
 
pauljames87 said:
I see no point the masters banning people

If they can't get points players won't get invites and the only ones that will get in will be past winners like DJ , Louis , Phil and Garcia

Now what would banning achieve? Only DJ would be likely to even win
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You forgot Schwartzel and it looks like Bubba and PReed are on their way as well. Adam Scott has made murmurings of wanting to play in more international events.

Those past champions dinners are going to start looking a bit sparse.
 
On the one hand majors dont want to dilute their field by banning top players. On the other they might like the direction golf is headed, they are traditionalists after all. I suspect there are elements of hedging their bets to see how it plays out before committing.

Still amazed there's been nothing from the DP World Tour. Is something afoot?
 
Barking_Mad said:
On the one hand majors dont want to dilute their field by banning top players. On the other they might like the direction golf is headed, they are traditionalists after all. I suspect there are elements of hedging their bets to see how it plays out before committing.

Still amazed there's been nothing from the DP World Tour. Is something afoot?
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I would not be surprised in the slightest if do world tour aligned with them

Let's think about it for a min, they live in the shadow of the PGA .. aligning with Liv would get all these banned golfers playing their events .. DJ on the ET? that's a huge pull .

It could potentially push the ET tour to on a much better footing

Notice players resigned from the PGA but nobody from the DP world?
 
Barking_Mad said:
Pat Perez allegedly signed for $10m.

That's nearly a third of his lifetime PGA Tour earnings.
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At what point do guys below the top 10 in the FedEx rankings start getting the "Fear of missing out" if LIV start pulling these signing on fees when they have enough guys? If they are paying Pat Perez $10M just to sign, think what they must be offering others.

Although some think these guys aren't a big miss to the PGA Tour, it s definitely weakening their fields. What happens when Rory, JT, Rahm etc take their usual 4 months off over Oct-Jan and you have LIV with Bryson, Phil, DJ, PReed, Bubba etc with more to follow before then no doubt. Some of the Tour fields are going to look horrible.
 
Talking to someone at work



"I don't watch golf often , I find it boring , it's been the same for years same 72 hole format

This is a much better idea for me I can see myself watching this a few times"

Now there is the target audience.. people who don't watch normally
 
Springveldt said:
At what point do guys below the top 10 in the FedEx rankings start getting the "Fear of missing out" if LIV start pulling these signing on fees when they have enough guys? If they are paying Pat Perez $10M just to sign, think what they must be offering others.

Although some think these guys aren't a big miss to the PGA Tour, it s definitely weakening their fields. What happens when Rory, JT, Rahm etc take their usual 4 months off over Oct-Jan and you have LIV with Bryson, Phil, DJ, PReed, Bubba etc with more to follow before then no doubt. Some of the Tour fields are going to look horrible.
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Actually although these guys are big names the majority have struggled for a few years. There's been a changing of the guard in the last few years with the likes of Morikawa, Thomas, Scheffler, Hovland etc to the fore. I wonder if the likes of Watson and Reid etc were challenging regularly in the majors and big tournaments they'd join. Liv have been very clever in who they've targeted because they've only really pulled 2 big names, both of which have a love hate relationship with the tour, but they've given the impression of a big name exodus. The other names are all has beens
 
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