FC Barcelona defeated overwhelming favorite Manchester United on Wednesday in the UEFA Champions League Final. At the same time ESPN2 scored a major victory for soccer in the US. According to TV By The Numbers, the game drew an average of 1.43 million users making it the most watched UEFA game in US cable history [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Bandwagon Fans Create Advertising Opportunities
27 May
Posted by: Patrick ONeil in: Advertising, FanSection, General Musings, NBA, Social Media, Sports, Statistics, polls
The Lakers and Nuggets series is heating up, and so are their communities. The two communities are growing at a rapid rate. The Lakers community has grown by about 4% since the series began last week. This is impressive, but it pales in comparison to the more than 13% growth that the Nuggets community has [...]
Facebook’s Stream & March Madness
22 May
Posted by: WalterRoth in: College Basketball, Facebook, FanSection, Social Media
For the past few years I’ve particpated in a March Madness pool powered by CBSsports with a bunch of people local to Silicon Valley. They are great people - goofy at times (as proof is our Mascot pictured above) - and each year we have a lot of fun tearing into each other on the [...]
It all started with a diehard Atlanta Braves fan who has always been somewhat distraught that so few people attend most games, but had no clue how to rally more support. In 2007, he stumbled upon our Atlanta Braves Fans application, and that is where his journey to bring fellow fans closer to the team [...]
We’re excited to announced our new widget partner - FanSided.com. FanSided is one of the fastest growing blog networks dedicated to providing the best professional sports blogs on the Web. The company is still relatively new and are still getting their portal site up and running, but you can’t beat the content their bloggers are [...]
