To say the appeal and influence of professional sports in America is powerful would be an understatement, in my estimation. The appeal and influence of the four major professional sports leagues in North America (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) is so great that all four went and did the same thing: started their own network. These […]
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“We really saw mobile happen in 2011,” said David Finocchio, Founder and Chief Content Producer of Bleacher Report and Vice President at Turner Sports.
Then, Bleacher Report amassed 22 million unique monthly users and 40 percent of that traffic derived from mobile. They debuted an iPad iteration of their popular Team Stream app as byproduct of where users have been consuming their content. The rapid upswing in readership and mass production of content collided to the point that it was imperative that their mobile presence catered and reflected to the demand at hand.
(Stuart Franklin/Getty Images North America) With Tiger Woods recently winning his 79th PGA Tour title and the PGA championship beginning today, golf fans are flocking to the PGA Tour app. Presented by Nike Golf and powered by the Mi Platform from July Systems, the app has various ways for fans to connect to the PGA Tour, ranging from player bios and live video to a leaderboard for the current tournament. Available for Apple products in the App Store, the app opens to the current leaderboard of the tournament where users can also view the tee times of each player as well as the results from the previous tournament. This convenience prevents fans from having to go to a computer or...
Nate Silver has changed the way people look at sports and politics (Ian Hill/Thinkstock/Penguin)
In the first installment of this series, Joshua Meredith dove head first into the technological background behind Daily Fantasy Sports.
In Part two of this series Meredith looked at the intersection of Internet Poker, Gambling and Daily Fantasy Gaming.
Today in Part 3 of this series, Meredith looks at the links between Daily Fantasy Sports, Wall Street Analytics and the impact data analysis is having on the industry.
Over the next several weeks, SportTechie is bringing Daily Fantasy Sports to the forefront. In the first installment, Joshua Meredith dove into how Daily Fantasy Sports works and its technological background. You can read it here: Today, in Part 2 of this series Meredith looks at the intersection of Internet Poker, Gambling and Daily Fantasy […]
