The Times Group, a national media organisation in India, has announced an exclusive two-year agreement with sports content provider Perform. According to the terms, it will bring EPL highlights to...

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Manchester City Football Club is neck-and-neck with neighboring Manchester United at this early stage of the English Premier League season, but the world's wealthiest club is aiming to streak ahead...

Read More: Manchester City becomes first English football club to sign YouTube content deal

Manchester City Football Club is neck-and-neck with neighboring Manchester United at this early stage of the English Premier League season, but the world's wealthiest club is aiming to streak ahead in the online content space. Manchester City is to become the first English Premier League team to sign a content deal with YouTube, letting the [...]

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Being an American, I tend to have a limited view of European football, or "soccer". Nevertheless, the rest of the world has a much boarder view of football, as “The World Game,” and it reflects in mobile and social media usage.

Read More: Football in a Social, Local, Mobile World [Infographic]

Two of America's most popular pastimes – social networking and fantasy football – have been combined with the introduction of Matchup Huddle, a new sports-based social game.


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Bantr, the social network for football (soccer) fans, has announced that it's expanding into Europe meaning that fans of teams that play in Spain's La Liga and Italy's Seria A can now check-in to games, vote on the action, view live stats and generally ‘banter’ with rival fans in real-time as the action unfolds.We first reported on Bantr when it launched into public beta last month, just in time for the new English football season. But it seems that it has decided to look beyond the professional [...]

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Today was an exciting day for me – I was one of a small group of bloggers invited to cover a training session of the Carlton Football Club (the ‘Blues') – the football team I support. For those of you outside of Australia – the Carlton Football Club (CFC) is an Australian Rules Football team [...]

Read More: How Carlton Football Club Use Social Media to Engage Fans

The attachment that social media has to entertainment is clear. We tweet the shows we watch, like the Facebook pages of movies we're going to go see, and blast out or elation or rage on all social networks when our sports team wins or loses. No sport or other form of entertainment has as big [...]

Read More: Social, Local, Mobile… Football (or Soccer, as Americans call it)

Some of the most popular sports in North America are weeks away from getting starting, with professional football leading the way with college football and college basketball close behind. It is as best a time as any for players to be urged to review Tennessee basketball’s 50 tips for tweeting athletes.

Read More: Readying for Some Football: Experts Offer Athletes Tips for Tweeting

As you may have seen in New Media Age last week, Indesit has appointed We Are Social to its global social media account, with us working on their overall social media strategy and providing campaign level support. While there are supporting teams working on this in our London and Paris offices, we’re leading the engagement [...]

Read More: We Are Social. We Are Football Fans

In a first for the social network, offer a live stream of the opening match in this year's FA Cup football (soccer) tournament in England is to be offered on Facebook.While it's not a big match – it features non-league teams Ascot FC and Wembley FC – it's a big deal for Facebook's ambitions as a player in the media industry, even if it isn't directly involved in the move.While Facebook has its own live video streaming channel, which it has used to present interviews with famous peopl [...]

Read More: FA Cup football match to be streamed live on Facebook

Representatives from the English Premier League, the Football League and media organizations have thrashed out a new last minute rights deal that will change the way football matches can be covered online.On Saturday morning, a matter of hours before the advent of the new English Premier League season, days of negotiations came to an end, culminating in what is thought to be a 4-year deal that will allow journalists to update online stories and engage with readers using social media at any time. [...]

Read More: UK media rights deal means Twitter just became much better for football reporting

The English Premier League (EPL) season kicks-off today, and the folk at PeerIndex – a web technology company that algorithmically maps out the social web – has pulled together a couple of league tables that may interest those with a penchant for football and Twitter.If you want to know what the most influential teams and players in the Premier League are in the Twittersphere, then read on.

Most influential EPL teams on Twitter

Here's a list of the most influential English Pre [...]

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