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Facebook Looks to Expand Paid Events Tools to Host Pay-Per-View Local Sports

Social Media Today

Facebook is looking to expands its paid events tools into minor league and local sports, with a view to creating a new revenue stream.

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Facebook Looks to Expand Paid Events Tools to Host Pay-Per-View Sporting Events

Social Media Today

Facebook is looking to expands its paid events tools into minor league and local sports, with a view to creating a new revenue stream.

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Adidas Teams With Champs Sports To Create Instagram Mini Series

The Realtime Report

Following their impressive World Cup ad campaign, Adidas has teamed up with Champs Sports to create four different online shows that will air only on Champs Sport’s Instagram page. Starbucks ranks among the top brands sharing Instagram videos as well, hosting numerous creative and artsy videos featuring coffee and cup designs.

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March Madness And Sports Gambling In The Workplace

The Realtime Report

March Madness and Sports Gambling in the Workplace. The start of the first March Madness season since a landmark 2018 Supreme Court ruling gave states leeway to allow and regulate sports gambling. ’ They gave the states the ability (for now) to decide how to regulate sports betting.” Office-Managed Betting Pools.

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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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Most-Tweeted Sports Event In History: Germany vs. Brazil

The Realtime Report

During Tuesday’s semi-final match, where Germany dominated host nation Brazil with a 7-1 victory, tweets reached a peak volume of 530,166 tweets per minute – making it the most talked about sporting event in Twitter history. The match itself generated 35.6 millions tweets total.

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Socialympics: How Social Media and Blogging Has Boosted Sports Media

Convince & Convert

Sports have been played, enjoyed by spectators and covered by the media since well before the advent of smartphones and social media. But it’s no question that the development of social platforms has changed how we play, enjoy and cover sports. Twitter is the new sports ticker. Facebook is the new hub for fans.

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