Tag "La Liga"
Barcelona’s 50m Instagram followers: Will the others ever catch up?
Spanish football giants FC Barcelona have become the first football club to reach 50m followers on social media platform Instagram. ???? We are now 5️⃣0️⃣ million fans on https://t.co/YlIW7rNkri ????
French football is taking a leaf out of Spain’s book and competing with the Premier League
Today, the French professional football league, the LFP, set out its strategy for expanding its brand and competing with its rivals around the world. Across Europe, football leagues are progressing
New El Clasico emojis cement Twitter’s relationship with live sport
Sunday night sees the two biggest football clubs take to the field in one of the biggest rivalries sport has to offer, Spanish football’s big one. Barcelona v Real Madrid.
Sky Sports acquire Diagonal View and look set to shake up the social media landscape
Last week, Sky announced that they had acquired Diagonal View, a social media content producer, probably best known for the production of the football YouTube channel, The Football Daily. The
La Liga live streams games on Facebook and bites back against the Premier League
With the news that more and more sports are taking advantage of Facebook’s live streaming service to take advantage of their billions of users as a huge worldwide audience, it
Barcelona v Real Madrid: Premier League could lose global audience to La Liga sooner rather than later
Over the past few years, the organisers of Spain’s La Liga have been giving their league a shake to appeal to a global audience. The changes have mostly centred around
The top most-followed footballers on social media is a surprising list
When it comes to footballers on social media, there seems to be a new gaffe of some kind making the news every week. Now and then, there’s something good to
La Liga’s treatment of Barcelona raises questions about the integrity of rights holders
Barcelona v Valencia at Mestalla. The game had been scintillating and even, 2-2 in the final minute. But a penalty in the dying seconds gave Lionel Messi the chance to
Will Facebook ever have the real-time audience it craves?
The advent of social media has changed our lives over the past decade, but one of the biggest changes has come in how we consume sport. Sports fans – particularly
La Liga to become first European football league to broadcast match via Facebook Live
LaLiga and Grabyo will live stream Atletico Madrid v Athletic of the Spanish Women’s First Division to Facebook on Saturday 28th May at 11.45am (CEST). This match will be the first competitive football fixture to be live streamed to Facebook by a European football league
