Social Media Infographic: Richmond vs. Collingwood

Social Media Infographic: Richmond vs. Collingwood

One of the games of the round, Richmond versus Collingwood this week will not only be a tremendous contest on-field, it will also see a battle of the fans on the social space.

The following infographic takes at look at social media numbers between clubs, players and fans when it comes to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube:

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The battle for bragging rights is also waging in the Sports Geek office. Sean and I took to Twitter to fire off a few mischievous tweets during the lead up to the Round Four clash, putting our bodies (literally) on the line:

@seancallanan You’re on! @collingwood_fc might lead the way in social, but I’ll back my @richmond_fc boys in! #GetADesignReady #gotiges

— Jamie Murphy (@jamiedmurphy) April 18, 2013

While Collingwood are leading when it comes to social media numbers, I’ll back my boys to keep their unbeaten streak going this week.

Go Tiges!

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Social September – Who wins @AFL Vs @NRL? Where does your team stand?

We first look at the battle for social media fans back in March 2011 when the AFL reached the magical 1M milestone on Facebook with the NRL in close pursuit we looked at the social media fan numbers again in September 2011. Both Leagues have smashed through the 1M barrier are are in a race to reach 2M Facebook fans across the league.

The AFL & it’s clubs have maintained a strong following on Twitter with a far more Twitter followers than in the NRL shown by the stark gap in the club averages 19,398 compared to the NRL 13,012. However on Facebook the NRL holds a lead in the club averages lead by Broncos with a whopping 260K Facebook fans with Collingwood & Essendon both joining the 200K club recently & the top 10 split evenly but the AFL teams are getting slightly more engagement via Facebook’s “Talking About This” metric. AFL does have 2 more teams with Gold Coast & GWS Giants joining the AFL in the past 2 seasons.

Given 5.8M people on on Facebook in Australia, it will be interesting to see what numbers both leagues can grow to. Thanks to SportsFanGraph for helping us compile these numbers, you can check our live rankings for NRL & AFL and other sports.

We discussed the Social September with Francis on ABC Grandstand on Saturday as well as the “Talking About This” number and the mysterious Facebook Edgerank.

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The NBA vs. MBAs – The world of Business takes on the Basketball world

The NBA Finals have been going on for about a week now and, as the Miami Heat take a commanding 3-1 lead over the young Oklahoma City Thunder outfit, the guys at ‘how to MBA‘ made a sweet infographic comparing the best in the business world to the best in the NBA.

It’s a cool read seeing the huge salaries of some of the world’s biggest players on and off the court, and, who doesn’t love an infographic? Check out my Pinterest Sports board for more cool NBA infographics.

Via HowToMBA and Earn MBA

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What a startup founder should be able to do…

Like this from our friends at Attendly, so true…

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March Madness… want some bracket perspective?

March Madness is a crazy time for US sports fans & sports marketing alike check out Shaq’s Big Excuse activation with Dove Men where Shaq will call you to free you up to watch the game. Check out the Big Excuse Facebook app.

Here is some help & stats around the bracket filling that occurs across the USA & the world.

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Social Gaming is the new frontier

After listening to Startup Guru of Rentoid.com fame Steve Sammartino at Melbourne Geeks night on Gamification (read more at StartUp Blog here and here) it is not hard to see that social gaming is where it is at!

It’s one of the reasons we developed Sports DP to gamify the sports fan digital experience.

Amazing fact from last night’s presentation: There are more Farmville farmers than ACTUAL farmers in the world.

This infographic from TicBeat explains why social gaming is so integral to Facebook’s success.

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The Linfographic! Jeremy Lin story explained #linsanity

Isn’t it awesome when a social media phenomenon is presented as a Infographic?

We present the #Linfographic, documenting the #linsanity around Jeremy Lin.

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A great story about this infographic, after we blogged about it after finding it at Infographics World. It has completely blown up on Pinterest – check out the Linsanity board

We connected Justin at Infographics World just to say thanks & get some more info on getting more cool sports infographics developed.

Additionally we knew Jonah Ballow (@jonahballow) was in the middle of Linsanity (we worked with Jonah at the Timberwolves) so we made sure he knew about the Linfographic.

@jonahballow have you seen the Linfographic? Jeremy Lin story explained #linsanity bit.ly/zpuwtQ

— Sean Callanan (@seancallanan) February 16, 2012

Justin chimed in to offer

@jonahballow Hey Jonah.You can grab the embed code from the page and put it on the site.It would be an honor infographicworld.com/linfographic-t… — InfographicWorld (@InfographicWrld) February 16, 2012

And in a few hours time it was up on KnicksNow.com

Good to see the Linfographic on Knicksnow bit.ly/A6sVr2 #digisport — Sean Callanan (@seancallanan) February 16, 2012

After all the tweets & emails finished it was good to connect Justin & Jonah and find out Justin is a Knicks season ticket holder!

Just shows our motto “connecting sports, fans & sponsors using technology” is alive and well as it took Sports Geek in Melbourne Australia to connect the New York Knicks with a talented infographic artist who is based in New York & a huge Knicks fan.

Definitely demonstrates that the sports digital world is a small world after all & the sports digital revolution is definitely upon us! Congrats to Justin, you can now find the #Linfographic on ESPN as well our friends at SportsNetworker.

An infographic look at the journey of Jeremy Lin – ESPN es.pn/AsVAGhOur infographic featured on ESPN.Great day #linfographic

— InfographicWorld (@InfographicWrld) February 17, 2012

If you haven’t seen it by now here it is…

Source: Infographic World