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QPR first football club to add matchday hashtag on dugouts at Loftus Road
Starting with this weekend’s Sky Bet Championship home match against Derby County, fans visiting Loftus Road will now see the club’s matchday hashtag embedded onto the home dugout.
Sports Tech Innovation Summit – London 2013
Next week sees the launch of a new event run by the guys at Innovation Enterprise here in London. It’s an event that we at UK Sports Network are lucky enough to be involved with as a media partner
‘The Offside Rule (we get it!)’ celebrates one year anniversary with over 150,000 downloads
The only female-fronted football podcast in the market from Offside Productions marks its first birthday and a milestone 150,000 downloads with the launch of a new website www.offsiderulepodcast.com and YouTube channel.
Sunderland AFC launch free football video service with SAFSee
Sunderland AFC and Stream UK are in the vanguard of free football video following the launch of the club’s new online multimedia service, SAFSee.
Scarlets – First Rugby Club to Use Social Ticketing Application
UK rugby team Pioneers a new, socially-smart way for fans to purchase match tickets.
Social media highs and lows of NBA Manchester
THE NBA came to Manchester for the first time earlier this month, so how did one of the top social media brands do and did they miss any tricks? NineteenEightyFour’s Aaron Jaffrey takes a look.
Real-time football clips kick off in UK with Sky Sports and NOW TV using Grabyo
Grabyo, the real-time TV clip-sharing platform, is today announcing it will be helping Sky Sports to promote its coverage of the UEFA Champions League by sharing clips of live games – as well as other clips from Sky Sports News – to social and digital channels
Don’t be a digisports whore, less is more.
Guest Post: Matthew Quinn (Stream UK) has his say on social media strategy, fan engagement and cock waving within Digisport! Some great advice on the industry as a whole and video in particular
Top 1,000 Twitter accounts and how sports teams/athletes fair in it
This week Majestic SEO launched their ‘Twitter Top 1,000’ which uses ranking factors that include the number of links to a Twitter account and the quality of the website linking to that account. So how did your favourite team/athlete fair in it?
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How to Monetise Social Media in Sport [video]
At the Sportel Conference in Monaco, Richard Ayers (Seven League and ex-Head of Digital at Man City), Shergul Ashad (Digital Director, AS Roma) and David Sternberg (Head of Media, Man Utd) discussed the different approaches, barriers and opportunities that surround social media and the monetisation possibilities it represents
