Marketplace®
Every story is an economic story

People don’t conference call during the World Cup

The volume is down 11 percent.

Today’s US-Belgium World Cup game arrived at a most inconvenient time, coming as it did just an hour before deadline here at Marketplace.

We got the first half in.

But anyway: From the files of Intercall, a conference calling company, this little nugget (which we found on Quartz):

Conference call volume last week during the US-Germany game  was off 11 percent. That’s “volume” as in the number of conference calls, not “volume” as in sound.

And to be honest, we were kind of lucky to get the show on the air today.

Related Topics

Collections:

Latest Episodes

View All Shows
  • Marketplace
    5 hours ago
    25:22
  • Marketplace Morning Report
    13 hours ago
    7:09
  • Million Bazillion
    18 hours ago
    30:57
  • Marketplace Tech
    18 hours ago
    12:45
  • This Is Uncomfortable
    6 days ago
    28:44
  • Make Me Smart
    4 months ago
    24:33