Sport
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
Insights from Twitter Sport’s Omid Ashtari
Early this month Sport Business Daily sat down with Twitter’s Head of Sports Partnerships, Omid Ashtari and did an informative Q&A that covered a range of topics from the NFL to advertising and ticket sales to their relationship with TV.
Indonesia: Twitter’s voice is the People’s voice
Indonesia has a 240million strong population making it the fourth most populous country in the world. And even though only 22% of the nation has internet access at home, it’s already Facebook’s third largest market, and Jakarta was named the world’s number one Twitter city!
Joey Barton: My Life as a Footballer
Joey Barton aims to showcase what it is like to be a professional footballer through a series of videos and blogs, dispelling some of the myths that exist around the sport and the media portrayal of them whilst involving fans in the process
Digital Sport London – Event Review
This week saw us run the first ever UKSN ‘Digital Sport London’, a move into looking beyond just social media but the greater impact the digital innovation has had (as is still doing so) on the Sports Industry. Here is a look at those presentations we saw.
Summer of Sport: Comparison of 4 Sports Events and their use of Twitter
Sports Digital Agency Seven League, founded by Richard Ayers (former Head of Digital at Manchester City), has put together an interesting piece of research based around one month of sporting events in the UK. Here is what they found…
