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AFL vs NRL – the battle for social media fans

Did you miss #SB45 AKA Super Bowl?

Social media was the big winner at the Super Bowl along with the Green Bay Packers of course #gopackgo. Check out our take of the big plays on the Super Bowl Sunday from Foursquare, Visa with Twitter, Facebook & not forgetting the ads on YouTube.

March Madness – NCAA streaming online

NCAA^® is March Madness time, not only can you watch all games online, iPhone or iPad they are encouraging fans & bloggers to bring in more viewers by providing an easy toolkit to advertise NCAA^® March Madness on Demand^®// . Additionally they are helping fans follow teams on social media with the Social Arena. Follow March Madness on Facebook.

Charity Baskets case study – $11k raised in 11 days

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The battle for social media fans – @AFL Vs @NRL

Footy season is back and so is the battle for the social media fan!

The AFL has the early lead just topping the magical 1 Million social media fan mark with the NRL closing in on 1 Million fans. Interesting to note the AFL fans have taken to Twitter with twice as many tweeps than the NRL. Getting numbers in social media is the first step, engaging and maintaining interest with those fans is the far more important step. Facebook does not publish the Monthly Engagement numbers, it is these numbers that are far more important to measure success on Facebook. A highly engaged fan base is a MUST, especially given the latest raft of changes on Facebook.

Rankings from SportsFanGraph

As of 8th March 2011 – Updates & Notes below from Sports Geek

#	Team/League	Twitter	Facebook	Total
1	Australian Football League	22,049	273,299	295,348
2	National Rugby League	13,413	270,663	284,076
3	Brisbane Broncos	5,840	138,263	144,103
4	Collingwood Football Club	11,821	113,205	125,026
5	Essendon Football Club	9,091	104,372	113,463
6	Adelaide Football Club	7,801	63,755	71,556
7	St. Kilda Football Club	7,104	62,344	69,448
8	West Coast Eagles	3,602	65,427	69,029
9	Carlton Football Club	7,063	59,345	66,408
10	Gold Coast Titans	4,591	57,734	62,325
11	Melbourne Storm	3,654	58,493	62,147
12	Sydney Swans	7,563	51,109	58,672
13	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	2,141	52,284	54,425
14	Wests Tigers	3,801	44,020	47,821
15	Richmond Football Club	6,919	35,659	42,578
16	Fremantle Football Club	3,625	36,287	39,912
17	Hawthorn Football Club	5,024	34,476	39,500
18	St George Illawarra Dragons	2,638	35,497	38,135
19	Sydney Roosters	1,743	33,551	35,294
20	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	2,798	29,595	32,393
21	Port Adelaide Football Club	3,299	24,958	28,257
22 *	Newcastle Knights	0	27,995	27,995
23	North Melbourne Football Club	5,725	21,945	27,670
24	Western Bulldogs	2,840	24,130	26,970
25 *	Brisbane Lions	0	23,435	23,435
26	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	1,432	19,892	21,324
27	Gold Coast Football Club	4,260	12,379	16,639
28	Melbourne Football Club	3,963	12,607	16,570
29	Penrith Panthers	0	16,233	16,233
30 *	South Sydney Rabbitohs	3,610	8,796	12,406
31 *	Geelong Football Club	4,226	7,456	11,682
32	North Queensland Cowboys	695	8284	8979
33	New Zealand Warriors	0	8699	8699
34	Parramatta Eels	2761	4451	7212
35	Greater Western Sydney Giants	2406	1914	4320
36 *	Canberra Raiders	1742	0	1742