25 Nov
Posted by: Bryan Tsao in: Advertising, Sports
Anyone following Monday Night Football on ESPN.com yesterday might have noticed a couple front page blurbs about Greg Reynolds, who would have won $1 million from ESPN had the Packers prevailed in a game that was close until the 4th quarter. ESPN’s “Beat the Streak” Contest is sponsored by Progressive, and ESPN has done a [...]
21 Nov
Posted by: Patrick ONeil in: Social Media, Sports, Uncategorized
We just ran a fan photo contest for Ohio State and Michigan football fans in anticipation of “The Game” this weekend. Everyone who follows sports knows that this rivalry is huge, and our numbers here at FanSection confirm this. When we started the contest 11 days ago there were 323,000 fans between our [...]
That’s right, when The Diesel isn’t talking smack about tonight’s Lakers vs Suns showdown, he’ll be twittering about the good life that is the NBA. Mashable reports that @THE_REAL_SHAQ is in fact the real Shaq and unlike a lot of other celebrity Twitter users, Shaq is really the guy behind the tweets. A post on [...]
18 Nov
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: Facebook, FanSection, Press, Social Media, Sports
Watercooler and FanSection were recently mentioned prominently in an article by Eric Fisher in Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal. While you have to be a member of the site to read it, the complete article is included here in its entirety:
Application developers mine new opportunities
Mike Kerns and Jeff Ma, the lead executives of San [...]
16 Nov
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: Facebook, FanSection, Social Media
AppData, a new site launched by the head of product here at Watercooler, Justin Smith, is a fantastic place to get all sorts of interesting stats about Facebook applications. It’s an independent tracking tool and is definitely worth a look if you’re interested in Facebook applications. I just took another quick look and saw that [...]
