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The Web Summit brought together in Lisbon the main companies, ideas and businesses that will shape the future of Technology – and beyond. Completely sold out, as in 2018, the event that took place between the 4th and 7th of November and the Portuguese capital marked the media agenda, but less than in 2018. Even so, the organization's official figures point to more france email list participants and more countries: 159 in 2018 and 163 countries in 2019.
According to a Cision study , between October 1st and November 9th, Lisbon was mentioned in 6,119 news items in international online media – 2,076 fewer articles, in the same period last year – and in 75% of the news items referring to the Web Summit .
The USA , the United Kingdom , Brazil , Spain and Germany stand out among the countries where the most articles about the technology summit were recorded.
In Portugal , the event that took place for the fourth time in Lisbon was mentioned in 4,603 news articles, with a drop of 1,452 articles compared to the same period last year. In the period under analysis, online media assumed preponderance, referring to the Web Summit in 3,243 articles. References follow in Television, Press and Radio, with 708, 413 and 239 articles, respectively.
In 2018, another six thousand news items were dedicated to the Web Summit : 4,312 on the Internet, 936 on Television, 520 in print media and 287 on Radio.
On the other hand, regarding the number of broadcast hours, there was an increase in Television, from 53 hours in 2018 to more than 57 hours in 2019. In turn, on Radio the number of 12 and a half hours remains the same, as last year.
Also noteworthy are national start-ups , such as Barkyn , DefinedCrowd , GoParity or Sound Particles , whose presence at the Web Summit was reflected in various media outlets.
The object of Cision 's study was all news published in the Portuguese editorial space in more than two thousand media outlets and in more than 120 thousand online news outlets in 190 countries, regularly monitored by Cision , researched between October 1 and November 9, 2019 and in the same period.
