{"id":460099,"date":"2026-05-26T02:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/460099\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:55:10","slug":"as-england-win-their-eighth-womens-six-nations-on-the-bounce-what-did-the-public-make-of-this-years-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/460099\/","title":{"rendered":"As England win their eighth Women\u2019s Six Nations on the bounce, what did the public make of this year\u2019s tournament?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"wjpkx\">It may be possible to partially attribute 2026\u2019s better performance to an increase in good press following the team\u2019s victory at the 2025 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup. Buzz scores, which measure whether consumers have heard anything positive or negative in the past two weeks, started at 2.9 for the 2026 Six Nations and rose four points to 6.9 by the end. It\u2019sthe same ending score as the 2025 tournament (which saw scores rise from 5.3 to 6.9), but a greater rise.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8rdcl\">There has also been some gradual improvement over the decade. In 2022, the final Recommend scores (which track whether consumers would recommend or avoid an event) were 1.4; for the 2026 event, these scores were 4.0 \u2013 almost triple the 2022 figures. Similarly, if we look at perceptions of the tournament\u2019s staging (as measured by Value scores), we see measures of 6.5 by the end of the 2022 tournament, and 11.9 by the conclusion. Not dramatic upticks, but perhaps indicative of the improvement the contest has made in the public\u2019s eyes over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2gj56\">Looking at Index scores (which measure overall brand health), we can also see that the Women\u2019s Six Nations scores 9.5, putting it 2.1 points clear of the average sporting events (7.4). If the success of the Lionesses has driven interest in women\u2019s football, it may be worth asking if the ongoing success of the Red Roses will raise the profile of the Women\u2019s Six Nations even higher in years to come.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"29hqn\">This article originally appeared in City A.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may be possible to partially attribute 2026\u2019s better performance to an increase in good press following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-460099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}