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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to know how much sports fans love to share updates about their teams on social media. Fantasy sports have played a huge role in shaping fans’ communities and conversations on social platforms. What are fantasy sports? And what did social media and fantasy sports?

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How to Create the Perfect Social Media Marketing Mix

Rebekah Radice

You can’t influence anyone unless you build a solid community by sharing and enagaging with people #InfluencerChat. Marsha Collier (@MarshaCollier) May 6, 2015. By 2020, only 15% of sales interactions will be outside of social, mobile, and video #influencerchat pic.twitter.com/2RnapMtVHr — Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) May 6, 2015.

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Captivating a global audience: Why social data is the key to your esports marketing strategy

Sprout Social

When Heroes of the Dorm, a collegiate-level Heroes of the Storm tournament, made its ESPN debut in 2015, the nerd jokes and sarcastic Tweets that followed were pretty much inevitable. — Tyler Batiste (@TyBatiste) April 27, 2015. — Desus Nice (@desusnice) April 27, 2015. — Desus Nice (@desusnice) April 27, 2015.

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Leicester City: A Tale Of Success, Social Media Affinity, And Crisps

Audiense

As expected, sports leads the way when looking at the Affinity Report of Leicester’s followers, with the Premier League’s official Twitter account being the most followed account. With sports stars commanding large followings, we need to look further into the data to identify some of the brands that this community is actively following.

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What to Expect on Social Media During Super Bowl LI

Ignite Social Media

pic.twitter.com/42tpWwY7WH — JetBlue Airways (@JetBlue) February 2, 2015. Another facet of this trend are the anti-sports crowd. gWbgvl03Pl — Doritos (@Doritos) February 2, 2015. Fly #LikeAGirl. 3) Branded Banter. Doritos is a great example of a brand who actively does this during the Super Bowl. Hire us next time?

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The Boy Who Loved to Fly [In Memoriam: Mehtab Mukerji Dere]

Waxing UnLyrical

This sport, that he fell in love with, with such a passion, took him to the furthest corners of the world… like Croatia (pic). On October 11, 2015, the boy took his little brother (not so little now, a grown man!) He started excelling in his professional life and, along the way, acquired a beautiful young bride. And base jumping!

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The Boy Who Loved to Fly [In Memoriam: Mehtab Dere]

Waxing UnLyrical

This sport, that he fell in love with, with such a passion, took him to the furthest corners of the world… like Croatia (pic). On October 11, 2015, the boy took his little brother (not so little now, a grown man!) He started excelling in his professional life and, along the way, acquired a beautiful young bride. And base jumping!