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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? This isn’t a surprise.

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The Top 20 Health and Fitness Social Networks

Direct Marketing Observations

One of my clients, a very large sports drink company, has indirectly nudged me into taking a look at the state of what I drink, and ea, on a daily basis. The offshoot of this has been that I have been paying a lot of attention to the health and fitness social space. As well, it’s opened my eyes to what we all eat and drink.

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Mobile Social Networking Growing

Freelance Social Media

To hire LangfordMedia email info@langfordmedia.com Recent Posts Twitter and the Curious Case of Samantha Steele’s Hair Social Media Blog Regurgitation GroupTabs-Groupon Meets Foursquare The Auto DM Marketing Beyond Traditional Means Sites we like Bear Goodell – Sports.

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5 Reasons Twitter Should Continue To Be Part Of Your 2022 Marketing Strategy

SocMed Sean

Twitter, the social media platform of short status updates, can be a useful tool for marketing your business. Twitter’s broad use base provides a significant opportunity for companies to reach their audiences, and tools like hashtags allow businesses to target niche groups. Is Twitter Facing Challenges As A Social Network?

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Health And Fitness Apps See 62% Increase In Usage In Last Six Months

The Realtime Report

Over the past two years, there have also been various innovative health and fitness apps integrated with major social networks. Such integration has inspired other fitness-based social networks including Fitocracy , Daily Mile , and Traineo. Fitness Fanatics are 62% females and 38% males, according to Flurry.

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RIP: Social Media Networks & Features that Died in 2016

Ignite Social Media

The future of Houseparty, a private video chat app for group hangouts, is yet to be determined. Twitter as a Social Network. In April of 2016, Twitter re-categorized itself on the app store, moving from a ‘Social Networking’ app to a ‘News’ app. While still alive, it was a rough year for Twitter.

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Facebook’s little secret…

Sherrilynne Starkie

It’s based on how I helped one company start its journey into social media by creating a Facebook secret group. The idea was to restrict this skittish company’s FB presence to the secret group as proof of concept so the management team could get used to the idea of social media.

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