10 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, FSTA, Fantasy Sports, Marketing, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Technology, Yahoo!, press releases
Announcing Baseball Boss - Game Combines Trading Cards with Fantasy Sports - Interesting concept, we’ll review the site in a separate full post shortly.
Fantasy Sports Industry Grows to a $800 Million Industry With 29.9 Million Players - We previewed this story for you on Tuesday, but here is the press release. Impressive growth indeed.
Yahoo Opens […]
07 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Marketing, Media, Olympics, Technology
Share Results Combines with SportsBuff.com on Affiliate Program - Affiliates who promote SportsBuff.com will receive an aggressive 25% rev share commission and a 90-day cookie. Nice.
Digital technology to play major role in Olympics - The network’s new Total Audience Measurement Index will be closely tracked.
Google now tracking the Tour de France with Street View - […]
24 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Marketing, Media, News, Olympics, Social Media, Streaming Games, Technology
Loop’d Network launches the Nike 6.0 online community - Create your own mashups on this action-oriented sports network.
Can Social-Networking Sites Make Money? - This in-depth article tackles this question - sports social networks take note!
NBC Chooses TVTonic to Provide Downloadable Olympics Coverage - NBC providing viewers with ability to download and watch their favorite […]
19 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Athletes, Blogs, Business, Marketing, Media, News, Social Media, Technology
ATHLINKED Launches a Professional and Social Networking Platform Focused on the Alumni Athlete - Now there’s a niche social network for alumni athletes!
Top 10 US Social-Network and Blog-Site Rankings Issued for May - AOL Fanhouse still in the top ten blogs. Nice.
Dallas Cowboys Score with Social Media from Pluck - The Cowboys are going Web […]
05 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Commercials, Fantasy Sports, Hockey, Marketing, Media, News, Video Games
Happy Thursday everyone! Here are some stories we’re following for you:
Celebrity gawkers in a league of their own - Fantasy sports has been the inspiration for fantasy celebrity leagues.
In-Game Ads Added To Sony PS3 - Check out this statistic: In-game ads will produce $800 million in sales by 2012!
Game 5 of Stanley Cup final draws […]
23 May
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Blogs, Business, Commercials, Fantasy Sports, Marketing, Media, News, Racing, Technology, Video Games
Stories of interest for Friday, May 23, 2008:
Survey Says: Without Sports Fans, Game Industry Could Fail - More interesting analysis from the CEA report.
Fantasy Sports Fans Like Buying Consumer Electronics, too (via RotoNation) - Not surprising stuff here, but yet more data about how fans are driving the purchase and development of consumer electronics.
Indy 500: […]
20 May
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Commercials, ESPN, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Marketing, Media, News, Social Media, Software, mobile, press releases
Stories of interest on Tuesday, May 20th:
Take advantage of free fantasy football draft software - Fantasy Football Starters has what looks to be a useful program on its site, so give it a try!
ESPN primed for ad growth - The sports media giant is seeing continual growth with no end in sight.
Social Networks Dominate […]
16 May
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Apparel, Business, Legal, Marketing, Media, News, Olympics, Social Media, Technology, mobile
Some stories of interest for Friday, May 16, 2008:
Battle over swimsuits moves to the courtroom - TYR is suing Speedo, claiming that Speedo is engaging in tampering with its’ athletes, persuading them to switch to the high-tech Speedo swimsuits in large numbers ahead of the Beijing games.
Stitcher Streams Customized Audio Feeds to Your iPhone - […]
15 May
Posted by Michael Vu as Business, Marketing, Nike, Podcast, Social Media
Listen to a podcast with Jennifer Jones, host of one of the top social media marketing podcast hows, as she interviews Emmanuel Brown of Nike Jordan. Learn more about how Nike leverages social media to reach their customers.
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