17 Mar
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: FanSection, General Musings, Merchandising
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the staff at Watercooler!
Some people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by cramming into the first Irish pub they can find with hundreds of their closest friends. Others head to the grocery store to stock up on Irish beer that they probably haven’t even considered buying since March 17, 2008. At FanSection, [...]
25 Jan
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: FanSection, General Musings, Statistics
When Jane McGrath, wife of Austalian cricket great Greg McGrath, died in June 2008 after a long battle with breast cancer, the cricket world and an entire nation mourned. Mrs. McGrath had been battling cancer for over ten years and along the way had used her and her husband’s celebrity to build awareness for the [...]
22 Jan
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: General Musings, Press
I posted this over at the TVLoop Blog, but wanted to make sure we patted ourselves on the back here at FanSection as well.
AlwaysOn released their 2009 OnMedia 100 today and we’re happy to say that Watercooler is one of fourteen community plaftorm companies on the list. At first glance, we’re the only entertainment and [...]
08 Jan
Posted by: Richard Loat in: FanSection, General Musings, Sports, Statistics
Before the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, we created team apps for a variety of different countries. The apps did fairly well during the three weeks of the Olympics, and the Great Britain app gained a modest 18,000 fans before plateauing. Most of us here at Watercooler assumed that those apps would slowly lose interest once [...]
