An AAU game last month involving LaMelo and LaVar Ball, broadcasted on Facebook live by Ballislife, hit 1.3 million total views, including 800,000 that tuned in live and 620,000 uniques. Ballislife, a digital content platform that specializes in amateur basketball, normally distributes its content on YouTube, and had done content on Facebook before in the […]
Facebook has announced that it will introduce Watch, a new platform for users to watch shows consisting of episodes with live or recorded content. For some television viewers, that will mean the addition of yet another alternative place where they can find sports content. Watch will have plenty of live sports and sports-related video on-demand […]
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, known for being the social media king in the NBA, was fined $10,000 by the league for using using language on social media that it deemed on Saturday to be “inappropriate.” The fine handed down by NBA Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Kiki VanDeWeghe came following an Instagram Live […]