Latin America

Top LatAm Sports Sites: 34.4% of Mexican Internet-Users Consume Sports Content Online

What: We looked at Comscore data of the most-visited Sports sites in Latin America, and particularly..

Published

5 years ago

June 15, 2018

What: We looked at Comscore data of the most-visited Sports sites in Latin America, and particularly in Mexico.
Why it matters: Latin Americans are very interested in sports; the websites they choose to consume content shed light on what interests them the most.

With the World Cup around the corner, sports websites are becoming more and more relevant to consumers. For Latin American audiences, websites that are informative and comprehensive are at a clear advantage, and more so if they offer relevant video content or even streaming links. It will be interesting to take a look at how the ranking moves in the following months as we get closer to World Cup months.

Top 10 Sports Sites in Latin America, April 2018

Total Audience, Home and Work, PC/Laptop.	Total Unique Visitors (000)
Total Internet: Total Audience	183,917
Sports	52,101
1	Globo Esportes	11,005
2	MSN Sports	7,144
3	UOL Esporte	4,982
4	ESPN	4,222
5	AS.com Sites	3,897
6	Marca Sites	3,449
7	DESAFIOMUNDIAL.COM	3,420
8	El Comercio Deporte Total DT	2,440
9	OLE.COM.AR	2,269
10	ROJADIRECTA.ME	1,874

[Source: comScore]

From the total amount of Latin Americans with an internet connection, 28.3% consumed sports content online in April.
Those users chose a variety of sites to find the content they were looking for, but Brazilian website Globo Esportes had the most visitors: 21.1%.
MSN Sports was visited by 13.7% of Latin Americans looking for sports content online.
UOL Esporte is right behind with 9.5% of visits.
8.1% of visitors went to the ESPN website.
7.4% of sports content users visited AS.com sites, which is also number one in the ranking of Mexican sites.
Marca Sites was seen by 6.6% of sports content users; very similarly, Desafio Mundial received 6.5% of visits.
4.6% of users preferred to find sports content on El Comercio Deporte Total DT.
Ole.com.ar was seen by 4.3% of viewers.
3.5% of viewers visited RojaDirecta.me, a website that could become more relevant as the World Cup approaches, since more users will be looking for links to stream matches for free.

Top 10 Sports Sites in Mexico, April 2018

Total Audience, Home, and Work, PC/Laptop. All Tablets, All Smartphones	Total Unique Visitors (000)
Total Internet: Total Audience	64,619
Sports	22,238
1	AS.com Sites	4,334
2	Marca Sites	4,103
3	ESPN	3,673
4	MEDIOTIEMPO.COM	3,346
5	RECORD.COM.MX	2,546
6	MSN Sports	2,145
7	Televisa Deportes	2,135
8	El Comercio Deporte Total DT	1,309
9	DEPOR.COM	1,093
10	Minute Media	927

[Source: comScore]

34.4% of Mexicans with an internet connection consumed sports content online in April.
19.4% of those users visited AS.com to find that content.
Marca Sites was visited by 18.4% of viewers.
16.5% of users searched for sports content on ESPN.
Medio Tiempo received 15% of visits.
11.4% of sports content users visited Record.
MSN Sports and Televisa Deportes received almost identical numbers of visitors, each with 9.6% of visits.
El Comercio Deporte Total DT was seen by 5.8% of users.
4.9% of viewers visited DEPOR.COM.
4.1% of users went to Minute Media.

Janet Grynberg

Janet has worked as editor and translator since 2013. After graduating with honors when receiving her Bachelor's Degree in English literature, she began working as a book reviewer for Expansión, the leading business magazine in Mexico. She has also worked as editor of young adult literature for publishing houses like Planeta and Penguin, and she's the author of a book of short stories. She's in the process of getting her MA in English at McGill University. Her interests include arts, good food, and her 8 pets.

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Colombian plane crash: New clues found in search for lost children

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1 day ago

May 28, 2023

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A desperate search for four children who have been missing since their plane crashed in the Colombian jungle on 1 May has yielded new clues.

Items belonging to the siblings, who are aged between 11 months and 13 years, have been found in two different locations in the rainforest.

Their mother and the other adults on board the plane died in the crash.

But search teams say small footprints found last week indicate that the children survived the impact.

The footprints were spotted on Thursday and specialists said most likely belonged to the children.

Earlier last week, search teams had found a child’s drinking bottle, a pair of scissors and a hair tie, as well as what appeared to be a makeshift shelter made from branches and a half-eaten passion fruit.

The children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group and members of their community have expressed the hope that their knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills will have given them a better chance of surviving the ordeal.

But despite more than 100 soldiers combing the jungle, no further traces were found until the early hours of Wednesday.

The latest items were spotted by an indigenous woman some 500m (1,640ft) from the crash site.

She found a dirty nappy, a green towel and shoes, which judging by their size are thought to belong to the second youngest of the missing siblings, who is four years old. The nappy is believed to have been worn by the 11-month-old baby.

At a separate location, the search team found another nappy, a mobile phone case and a pink cap which matches the drinking bottle found last week.

Indigenous people have joined the search and helicopters have been broadcasting a message from the children’s grandmother recorded in the Huitoto language urging them to stay put and to stop moving so as to make them easier to locate.

The latest traces are further indication that the four siblings survived the plane crash which killed their mother and the plane’s pilot and co-pilot, the Colombian army said.

But it warned that the state of the items suggested that they had not been abandoned there recently, but “sometime between 3 and 8 May”.

The army added that it was encouraged by the fact that none of the items showed traces of blood.

The army colonel in charge of the search also said that all indications were that the four children were roaming the jungle on their own.

Last week, Colombia’s president came under criticism when a tweet published on his account announced that the children had been found.

He erased the tweet the next day saying that the information – which his office had been given by Colombia’s child welfare agency – could not be confirmed.

Read from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65699761

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Pedro I: Emperor’s embalmed heart arrives in Brazil

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9 months ago

August 27, 2022

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The embalmed heart of Brazil’s first emperor, Dom Pedro I, has arrived in the capital Brasilia to mark 200 years of independence from Portugal.

The heart, which lies preserved in a flask filled with formaldehyde, was flown on board a military plane from Portugal.

It will be received with military honours before going on public display at the foreign ministry.

The heart will be returned to Portugal after Brazil’s independence day.

Portuguese officials gave the go-ahead for the preserved organ to be moved from the city of Porto for the celebrations of Brazil’s bicentenary.

The organ arrived on a Brazilian air force plane accompanied by the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira.

Mayor Moreira said it would return to Portugal after having basked “in the admiration of the Brazilian people”.

“The heart will be received like a head of state, it will be treated as if Dom Pedro I was still living amongst us,” Brazil foreign ministry’s chief of protocol Alan Coelho de Séllos said.

There will be a cannon salute, a guard of honour and full military honours.

“The national anthem [will be played] and the independence anthem, which by the way was composed by Dom Pedro I, who as well as an emperor was a good musician in his spare time,” Mr Séllos said.

Dom Pedro was born in 1798 into Portugal’s royal family, which at the time also ruled over Brazil. The family fled to the then-Portuguese colony to evade Napoleon’s invading army.

When Dom Pedro’s father, King John VI, returned to Portugal in 1821, he left the 22-year-old to rule Brazil as regent.

A year later, the young regent defied the Portuguese parliament, which wanted to keep Brazil as a colony, and rejected its demand that he return to his home country.

On 7 September 1822 he issued Brazil’s declaration of independence and was soon after crowned emperor.

He returned to Portugal to fight for his daughter’s right to accede to the Portuguese throne and died aged 35 of tuberculosis.

On his deathbed, the monarch asked that his heart be removed from his body and taken to the city of Porto, where it is kept in an altar in the church of Our Lady of Lapa.

His body was transferred to Brazil in 1972 to mark the 150th anniversary of independence and has been kept in a crypt in São Paulo.

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Brazil’s indigenous communities fear mining threat over war in Ukraine

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1 year ago

April 16, 2022

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Maurício Ye’kwana worries about the future. He comes from the community of Auaris, in northern Brazil, close to the border with Venezuela.

The area, part of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, is rich in gold, diamonds and minerals – and illegal miners want a piece of it. In all, there are an estimated 20,000 illegal miners on the land.

“It’s got worse in the past few years,” Maurício says, explaining that during the pandemic, the number of planes, helicopters and boats linked to illegal mining increased.

He’s only 35, but it’s the younger generation that concerns him – boys increasingly being lured into illegal work.

“The young people are the best boat drivers,” he says. They can earn as much as 10,000 Brazilian reais ($2,140; £1,645) for a single trip.

Maurício has come to Brasilia to take part in the Free Land Camp, an annual event that brings together indigenous communities looking to defend their land rights.

On Brasilia’s main esplanade, a grand avenue that leads to Congress and the presidential palace, communities from across the country have erected hundreds of tents.

Milling around the camp are indigenous Brazilians, many of them wearing feathered headdresses, intricate beaded jewellery and painted with geometric tattoos identifying their tribe.

This year, the event has taken on an even bigger meaning.

President Jair Bolsonaro has made it his mission to push economic development in the Amazon. In his latest attempt to make inroads into indigenous territories, he has cited the war in Ukraine. Brazil relies heavily on imported fertilisers for its agribusiness industry – more than 90% of its fertilisers come from abroad, and Russia is its most important partner.

“A good opportunity arose for us,” Mr Bolsonaro said of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He has argued that by mining in indigenous territories, Brazil can build more of its own potassium reserves.

It’s an argument questioned by some experts.

“Only 11% of the reserves are inside indigenous lands and other states like São Paulo and Minas have reserves,” says politician Joenia Wapichana, the first indigenous woman voted into Congress in 2018. “It’s a false narrative that tries to confuse the minds of the Brazilians, making them believe it’s important, that people won’t have food on their table.”

Also, it’s not a short-term fix.

“From a technological and environmental perspective, the licences needed and the infrastructure – it all takes time. Being able to offer these products to the Brazilian market would probably take seven to 10 years,” says Suzi Huff, Prof of Geology at the University of Brasilia. “We’re talking about an extremely sensitive area in which care needs to be taken. It’s false to say that it will solve Brazil’s problems.”

The bill has been in the works since 2020. But last month, the lower house voted to consider it under emergency provisions, removing the need for committee debates.

“It’s very clearly blackmail,” says Prof Huff. “Bolsonaro saw an opportunity to continue with this project of allowing mineral exploration including in indigenous lands and used the scarcity of fertilisers in Brazil to move forward with this project.”

It was expected to be voted on in the lower house this week, but that hasn’t happened – and few believe, in this election year, that it will. Not even the big players in the industry agree with it, with the Brazilian Institute of Mining last month saying it was a bill “not suitable for its intended purposes”, and calling for broader debate.

While a delay in voting is seen as a relief by indigenous leaders, it’s still a challenge on the ground.

“A fiery political discourse encourages invasions in indigenous lands,” says Joenia Wapichana. “The fact that Bolsonaro says he supports mining, that he will regulate mining in indigenous lands already exposes the indigenous people and makes them more vulnerable.”

The discourse is, of course, deeply political, especially with elections around the corner. On Tuesday, former president Lula da Silva – and the man leading in the polls to win October’s vote – made a visit to the camp.

“Today the headlines are about a government that doesn’t have scruples when it comes to offending and attacking the indigenous communities who are already on this land,” he said.

The response was huge cheers of “out with Bolsonaro” – but there are still six months until the elections. And this is Brazil – much can change in politics here, and the future of Brazil’s indigenous tribes is more uncertain than ever.

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