Manchester City has achieved a Premier League “first” by launching a new app for Amazon Fire TV that will showcase the acclaimed CityTV video series. Other content that will be available includes: a behind-the-scenes...
Recent data acquired from acuity digital shows that the combined total of all followers on Instagram for every Premier League has surpassed 40 million. More surprisingly, Instagram is just 2 million followers away from becoming...
Just under a year ago, Beyond Sport Director Sander Schouten gave an interesting talk at SoccerEx about the future of Virtual Reality, or VR, in sport. Virtual Reality in football has long been a talking...
Sunderland’s Victor Anichebe suffered an embarrassing incident after Saturday’s last minute defeat to West Ham. The Nigerian tweeted to his account post – match a message reading: Can you tweet something like Unbelievable support...
Recent Social Media data from Digital-Football.com showed English Premier League clubs have added an additional 30 million followers on Twitter alone in the past 3 years. As clubs have managed to clearly grow their...
There is no doubt that the English Premier League’s popularity has soared with a huge injection of television and sponsorship revenue, but what does this look like online? The above graph shows data from...
Only three years ago the @ManUtd Twitter account languished behind the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool in terms of size and engagement, but how times have changed. Using data recorded by Digital-Football.com back...
Former Tottenham, Roma, Ajax and Middlesbrough Egyptian striker Mido was caught tweeting an abusive response to a fan who had insinuated he spent too much time at KFC. The initial tweet from the @FadedFootballers...
Southampton FC are the latest club to demonstrate the value in integrating social media into their offline stadium experience. The Premier League tweeted during their match against West Brom that tweets sent with the...
Blackpool’s Michael Chopra was fined £10,000 this morning in relation to a tweet he posted earlier today about this mornings training session. Michael Chopra tweeted, “Fucking joke this come in training only 6 fucking...
In recent years Digital-Football.com has looked at making our predictions for the new year ahead and what developments, tactics and news we can expect for Football Social Media. However, this year we’re going to...
Despite being still relatively new to Twitter, the current Premier League champions have topped our recent Twitter Engagement table. The Red Devils saw an engagement rate of 98.7% from it’s 1.4 million Twitter followers....
Friday’s FIFA World Cup 2014 draw generated a staggering 1.7 million tweets in less than two hours as Twitter users logged on and tweeted their opinions about the group stages draw. The statistic released...
English Premier League sides recorded an enormous 100,000,000 Facebook Likes for all their Pages combined. The data – sourced from Sports Social Media monitoring platform ‘Social Pundit‘ – demonstrates just how influential football is...
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