Tag "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.

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

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

Brazil: Social Media Capital Of The Universe

Aaron Jaffrey takes a look a country that’s shortly going to be thrust into the limelight, thanks to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and it’s use of social media

A Sports Guide to Social Media Week London

The UKSN guide to choosing the right events at next week’s Social Media Week London (the sports ones). Save picking you way through the hundred’s on the site and check this out instead.

Social Media in the Emerging Markets: India

Guest Post:  Aaron Syed Jaffery (@aaronjaffery) is Managing Partner of global digital sport consultancy NineteenEightyFour (nineteeneightyfour.co). Continuing the TIMBI – Social Media and Emerging Markets series, this week here at

Sports getting the YouTube treatment

Exclusive Sports Media (ESM) has signed a strategic partnership with YouTube agency ChannelFlip to develop the ESM sports YouTube. Over the next 6 months sport is to become a big feature for the channel.

Technology and the Match Day experience: This is just the start!

The match day experience has lagged behind those of the arm chair fan for many years, but is it about to catch up?

EVENTS: Digital Sport London and Brighton Launch for October 2013

Two new events in Brighton and London launch in October 2013. Digital sport is at the core when we discuss the impact of technology on live sports events with the likes of Sky Sports and Arsenal FC.