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How To Make Money From Football Blogging In 2011

Ahmed Bilal — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:50:49 +0000

If you’re a football blogger / football site owner and you’d like to make more money from your website, you absolutely need to read this. Football Media’s Guide To Making Money From Football Blogging, released on 16th March 2011, is the only ‘how-to’ guide specifically targeting football bloggers. Inside, you’ll learn: 11 different monetization tactics. Continue reading →

Fans, Tickets and Profit

Ahmed Bilal — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:42:55 +0000

Football fans have had much to cheer and despair about in the last seven days, always a sign of a good news week. From Rooney’s overhead wallop to Arsenal and Tottenham upsetting the odds to a football journalist conducting a publicity campaign by pretending to stand for FIFA presidency, it’s been a fun week. And Continue reading →

Football PR 101: How To Pitch To Bloggers

Ahmed Bilal — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:47:37 +0000

Football blogs and bloggers are still an afterthought to PR agencies. There are exceptions (the folks at M&C Saatchi are generally clued in) but by and large, they don’t understand how bloggers tick and they don’t understand how to use blogs to deliver the type of ROI that looks good for their bosses. At the Continue reading →

Learning from Google and Adsense

Ahmed Bilal — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:31:36 +0000

On Monday Google AdSense disclosed the revenue share offered to publishers through two of their products, AdSense for content and AdSense for search. There are many differences in what Google AdSense and Football Media each provide for web publishers, and I strongly maintain that football blogs (or other sites for that matter) shouldn’t use AdSense Continue reading →

F.C. Barcelona – changing the world through football

Ahmed Bilal — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:00:43 +0000

As a football club F.C. Barcelona holds itself to higher standards than most clubs, both on the pitch and off it. On the pitch, the Spanish champions have won their second consecutive league title, and have an incredible six pieces of silverware from the last two seasons alone. To say that they are the best Continue reading →

Publishing Models In Football News

Ahmed Bilal — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:21:58 +0000

Having looked at different publisher models in football blogging over the last 4 years, I see two big trends for the near future (a lot of this has happened and is happening right): 1. Democratisation of access People will access content in a myriad of ways. Mobile, RSS, Website, YouTube, Audio are just the surface. Continue reading →

NASL hire EPL Talk’s Kartik Krishnaiyer as Director of Public Relations

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:09:37 +0000

The North American Soccer League (NASL) has announced the hiring of renowned journalist and blogger Kartik Krishnaiyer as the Director of Communications and Public Relations. He is best known as the host of the podcasts of EPL Talk and Major League Soccer Talk, although he’s done quite a bit more in the world of football Continue reading →

Omnisport.tv to shut down

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:25:46 +0000

As an Omnisport.tv affiliate, we received a notice via email today stating that “as of Dec 1st 2009, Omnisport.tv will be ceasing all affiliate marketing activity due to the imminent closure of www.omnisport.tv.” This isn’t as big (or far-reaching) as Setanta going bust but it’s worth remembering that just two months ago Perform Group, Omnisport.tv’s Continue reading →

Football PR

Guest Authors — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:32:23 +0000

Written by Chris Nee, the editor of twofootedtackle Blog Network and a social media planner at Porter Novelli. Many of you will have come across PR people in your football writing careers and may have developed positive or negative perceptions of the industry and its people based on those experiences. Here at Football Media we’d Continue reading →

England-Ukraine qualifier only available online, on pay-per-view

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:25:37 +0000

England play Ukraine in a World Cup Qualifier (they’re not going to stop just because England have qualified, you know) on October 10 (10/10). The reason this is news for other than footballing reasons is because the match will not be shown live on TV – instead, it will be shown online as an exclusive Continue reading →