Who is winning Eurovision 2018 according to YouTube?
We have analyzed the number of views and reaction for each participant on the YouTube channel of the Eurovision Song Contest, as of 5:30 pm Lisbon time the night of the final. Discover which songs are divisive and which get the strongest support among viewers.
Number of views
The ranking order shows that Cyprus is leading in terms of number of views. There was a difference of two days on YouTube between when the videos of the participants to SF1 and SF2 were uploaded. Understandably the big five, who were aired during the semifinals after the voting closed, have the lowest views, since they have not yet competed.
Overall Views
- Cyprus 5,766,996
- Israel 4,886,139
- Ukraine 2,484,272
- Czech Republic 1,530,863
- Lithuania 1,322,554
- Spain 1,209,770
- Norway 1,126,445
- Estonia 1,006,427
- Serbia 938,566
- Ireland 862,395
- Bulgaria 842,315
- Finland 829,774
- Albania 805,524
- Moldova 759,995
- Slovenia 703,011
- Sweden 642,164
- Australia 577,088
- Hungary 572,335
- Denmark 569,517
- Austria 483,059
- Portugal 399,272
- Netherlands 389,393
- Italy 383,359
- France 367,696
- United Kingdom 188,832
- Germany 156,912
Overall Reaction
This second ranking is about the ratio of people who click on like/dislike over the overall number of views. Some surprises appears: Italy, Spain, Germany, Israel and Ukraine get the most reactions. They are the only countries to make more than 3% of the viewers to click like/dislike.
- Italy 5.1%
- Spain 4.4%
- Germany 3.6%
- Israel 3.3%
- Ukraine 3.1%
- Hungary 3.0%
- Portugal 2.9%
- Bulgaria 2.6%
- Albania 2.5%
- Czech Republic 2.4%
- Lithuania 2.3%
- France 2.3%
- Netherlands 2.2%
- Denmark 2.2%
- Moldova 2.2%
- Sweden 2.2%
- Austria 2.1%
- Serbia 2.1%
- Norway 2.1%
- Cyprus 2.0%
- Ireland 2.0%
- Slovenia 1.9%
- Australia 1.9%
- Estonia 1.9%
- United Kingdom 1.7%
- Finland 1.6%
Then, in more details, if we observe the ratio of like-to-dislike among all participants, the list changes. The ranking shows how Cyprus is highly divisive among YouTube viewers with a share of dislike slightly bigger than the other participants. But being divisive at Eurovision isn’t a bad thing; it shows that you make people react.
- Portugal 95,7%
- Ukraine 95,7%
- Bulgaria 95,5%
- Germany 94,4%
- Denmark 94,2%
- Hungary 93,6%
- Lithuania 93,5%
- Spain 93,0%
- Albania 92,7%
- Czech Republic 92,4%
- Serbia 91,8%
- Austria 91,7%
- France 91,7%
- Estonia 90,9%
- Netherlands 90,6%
- Slovenia 88,9%
- Finland 88,9%
- Moldova 88,8%
- Sweden 84,5%
- Australia 83,3%
- Ireland 82,4%
- Italy 82,1%
- United Kingdom 81,7%
- Israel 81,0%
- Norway 77,9%
- Cyprus 68,4%
UKRAINE TOP5 in around of all that charts and for Juries it´s #26….. no words
The answer to the question in the headline, now that the final has been is a big fat NO!
Austria won the jury vote, Israel won the televote, with Israel winning overall.
watching a video is one thing, voting is another, and this night has proven it perfectly.
Since Elhaida Dani’s myriads of views on YT and her later results, I don’t pay much attention to those figures
Amd Belarus 1,784,866 views, so….
Easy victory! Only Israel and Germany are good. Cyprus the best ever!
Nicosia 2019
Vote 25 !!! #Fuego
You dont even know that it already has been announced that in case of winning it will be Limassol/Lemessos.
Anyway it won’t be because it won’t win 😉
I think Germany will win.
May happen. That would be deserved also…
Revenge for Brexit vote has been done
You do realise that Europe and the EU are not the same? Otherwise we would not need 2 semi-finals and many winners would not have been. Get your facts straight before you post such stupid comments.
How that idiot could do it to this lovely woman.
One of the most kind participants got the most unkind treat from pseudo-fan.
Surie deserves a second performance.
ESC security suc*s year by year!
VOTE UK!!!!
after that moron disturbing Surie’s performance and her resilience she deserves to win.
Are the other 25 acts to blame for that? Everybody deserves a fair vote.
Support Cyprus! Vote for number 25! #Fuego
Can you please stop just promoting Cyprus? its pathetic
It looks like you put a lot of money on the bet and afraid to lose it. Please be more objective.
Cyprus is the best. That’s the reason
This. At least they should use different pictures, I’m getting really tired of these 2 they keep using in every article.
No, Youtube views are not predictive.
However, Cyprus will win.
well you are dumb as hellll HAHAHAHAH
Let them sing 😉