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How football clubs can do social media right – and how to avoid disaster

At a time of year when new kits are launched, new signings are announced, and football clubs gear up for the new season, this is the time when fans start

Amazon secures tennis in first major live sports deal outside of US

Amazon will be the ‘Prime’ destination for tennis fans from 2018 when the current deal with Sky comes to end according to The Guardian. In its first sports move outside

Weekly Wrap: the DigiSport news you may have missed this week

This week, the world of social media in sport was once again taken over by the football transfer window, and cringeworthy / innovative (delete as appropriate) Twitter announcements for massive

Sports Media Fragmentation and Hacking The Game

This is a guest post by Will Pyne, Chief Creative Officer at Digital Media and Social Media Broadcaster, Brave Bison. Facebook has been tipped to win the rights to broadcast

RESULT Sports ranks football clubs and their power on social media

Twice a year – once on the turn of the calendar year, and once at the end of the European football season – German digital communication and marketing experts RESULT

Sunday Wrap: What’s hot in Digital Sport this week

This week, the football transfer window opened across Europe. Whilst it had been open in Britain for a few weeks, deals between clubs happen all over the continent, and we’re

Wimbledon, Twitter and the age of video highlights

As Wimbledon starts, it’s clear that this is an event which will be heavily followed on social media. For the last decade, that’s been increasingly obvious, but as Facebook and

The Club Website: Changing With The Times

It’s telling, if unsurprising, that when ask people to name their favourite websites, none mention the team they support or an official sports body. Here’s an article I first wrote for FC Business Magazine on the opportunities for clubs through their sites.

Could the Premier League ever ditch broadcasters and stream live games itself?

As the Premier League media rights bidding process heats up, could rights holders ever ditch the broadcasters and sell their product themselves?

Arsenal’s social media on point as they manage to make something out of nothing

Arsenal announced the signing of the Bosnian defender Sead Kolasinac in a deal we all knew was coming: the former Schalke 04 player was out of contract and set to