Football Media

Championship Manager and IMScouting have signed a strategic partnership that will give Championship Manager access to IMScouting’s player data, which comprises detailed information on hundreds of thousands of different players from major professional football leagues in the world. CM will use this information to ensure a much higher level of detail on players across the [...]

Posted by: Ahmed Bilal Posted under: Football Business Comments: 0

Shiny Media went into adminstration recently – and the fallout has been less than ideal. There have been reports that Shiny Media had already been bought before this happened, but as things stand the jobs of many bloggers and freelancers are in limbo and access to MovableType, on which most SM sites were running on, [...]

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For football publishers, the big money is to made in four areas – football betting, live online football, football tickets and football gear. We’ve talked about different monetization strategies in general but with dwindling advertising budgets and companies focusing more and more on performance-based advertising, these four are the way to go if you [...]

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Setanta’s recent financial troubles have been splashed all over the press and the fallout from the TV company going bust could be considerable, not least for the SPL where several clubs rely on TV income to keep them afloat. Yesterday I received an email saying that Setanta had paused all their online marketing acitivity as a [...]

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Over the last week, three different football brands blogs launched their football tshirts: Dirty Tackle Soccerlens (This shirt was sent out to Soccerlens readers as a Christmas present last year). Studs Up Both Dirty Tackle and Studs Up have set up shop with WhoAreYaDesigns.com, while Soccerlens went with Subside Sports. I talked at length about making money blogging about football [...]

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In the last 3 years (since I started Soccerlens in 2006), traditional media – publishers and advertisers – in the footballing industry have come around to the reality that blogging is going to be a key element in the football fan’s experience online and they’ve worked hard to get up to speed with ‘blogging’ and [...]

Posted by: Ahmed Bilal Posted under: Football Blogging, Football Business Comments: 6

NetResult has made a name for itself (inadvertently, but still) as a nuisance to football bloggers. They complain to YouTube when you upload clips of Premier League goals, they send you legal warnings when you put up Premier League and Football League club crests on your site, and they have been known to send your [...]

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A time of crisis is also a time of opportunity – what happens today is a result of what happened two years ago, and what happens two years from now will be influenced by what we do today. With that in mind, we are moving not only to secure our present status and fend off [...]

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The English Premier League is fond of saying that it’s strong demand makes it immune from the current financial meltdown and they might be right – the league as an institution continues to enjoy strong international demand and with two European champions and four consecutive European final appearances by English clubs in the last four [...]

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Sportech have bought popular football news website 4thegame.com for £600,000. Sportech said the website, which has 700,000 monthly users and an international customer base, would provide a platform to cross-sell and market its range of soccer games. Fast Web Media, which is led by chief executive Michael Flynn, will continue to provide operational and creative expertise [...]

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