Jul
10

FanFeedr Is A Digital Buffet Of Sports Content For Ravenous Fans

E-marketer reported that there is VAST population of tech SAVVY, sports HUNGRY fans. They don’t want to WAIT for their sports news, they want to WHET THEIR APPETITE in REAL TIME:

 

Much as radio and TV transformed the sports fan experience when they came along, digital technology is doing so today. “In the on-demand era, people expect to get their dose of sports whenever the mood strikes them,” said a new eMarketer report, “Sports Fans Online: Examining the Digital Element of the Total Fan Experience.” “Digital channels provide much of the content that surrounds the games and extend fans’ enjoyment of sports.”

The patterns of modern fandom matter to marketers because the sports audience in the US is huge. In a Marist Poll conducted in November 2011, 61% of adults answered affirmatively when asked, “Do you consider yourself to be a sports fan, or not?”

 

FanFeedr STRIVES to FEED the sports fan’s RAVENOUS appetite. Everyone’s “tastes” are DIFFERENT, so Fanfeedr offers up different content cuisines. If you like to FEED on your team in “sit-down” fashion you can visit  our website, If you are more of a “fast food” eater, follow your team on Facebook or Twitter.

Grab your “plate” and step up to FanFeedr’s digital “buffett”.

 

Jun
14

ProgrammableWeb Plugs FanFeedr’s API As A MUST HAVE

 

In ProgrammableWeb’s “The New API: Apps, Partners, Income” , API is discussed as no longer a “NICE TO HAVE”. It is now a “MUST HAVE” for businesses. API should now stand for Apps Partners Income.

Partners is where FanFeedr comes in:

Some app creators are enlightened from the get-go. Alibras and FanFeedr each launched their APIs and apps on the same day. Why not? They needed them for the app anyway. Others need more encouragement, which often comes from potential partners, or even internal teams. The ESPN API developed out of the public eye for two years before it launched.

Be sure to get your Must Have FanFeedr API today.

 

 

 

Feb
23

Product Announcement: API Fixes And Changes For 29 February 2012

 

We wanted to let everyone know of the upcoming changes to the API. The push to production will occur on the afternoon of 29 February 2012 and will not result in any downtime.

One note, we’ve added pagination in a backward-compatible way to many of the calls (listed below). We encourage everyone to start planning on incorporating the pagination into their software. Documentation will be updated to reflect these changes when we make the push to production.

Thank you for your patience as we tackle some of these larger issues we’ve been experiencing.

Here is a more detailed list of the outward facing changes:

1. Several improvements to our event systems that will result in more accurate dates and times across sports.
2. Correct player ID’s will now be included in our boxscores.
3. Some api calls will now have pagination. All calls with pagination will default to page 0 for compatibility reasons. They will also accept a get parameter ‘page’ which will specify which page should be returned (0 … N). affected calls:
* /persons call will now be restricted to 100 persons
* /events call will now be restricted to 100 events
* /events/preseason call will now be restricted to 100 events
* /events/season call will now be restricted to 100 events
* /events/postseason call will now be restricted to 100 events
* /events/next call will now be restricted to 10 events
* /events/last call will now be restricted to 10 events

Please reply to this topic with any questions or comments.

Link to Category : http://developer.fanfeedr.com/forum/topics/85399
Link to Topic: http://developer.fanfeedr.com/forum/read/154650
Link to Comment  : http://developer.fanfeedr.com/forum/jump-to-post/160718

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Dec
28

FanFeedr Founder Ty Ahmad-Taylor Talks API With Mashery

Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Founder of Fanfeedr, discusses APIs for big media and small start ups. In the video below, Ty explains the importance for media companies to be a platform , instead of a destination, to attract the largest audience possible.

Learn how Fanfeedr in particular is leveraging a multi-tiered developer strategy with their API dashboard.
Video Key Points

- Issues facing large media companies and goal of attracting largest audience possible
- Challenges of having a product, a platform, or both
- Value of multi-tiered developer strategy
- The upside and downside of separating the front and back end

See Original Mashery Story By Clicking Here.

Dec
13

FanFeedr CEO Ty Ahmad-Taylor Speaks At ProMaxBDA Sports Media and Marketing Summit

FanFeedr CEO Ty Ahmad-Taylor spoke at the ProMaxBDA Sports Media and Marketing Summit in NYC last month. He participated on the panel entitled, “NEXT: A Look at the Digital Tools, Apps and Social TV Technologies Changing the Way We Market.”  Joining Ty were Mike Folgner of Snappy TV, Fraser Kelton of GetGlue, Tim Mahlman of Klout and Deb Roy of Bluefin Labs. The discussion was moderated by John Young of Comcast Interactive Media.

Each panelist shared how their company is forcing “social” into the mainstream and learning how to augment media buys, drive incremental viewers, realize new business opportunities and develop strategies for integrating social technologies into a successful marketing mix. Ty Ahmad-Taylor explained how marketers can get closer to fans with FanFeedr through team pages and social channels.

For more information about this discussion please contact ty@fanfeedr.com.

Dec
06

FanFeedr’s API Widget: Enriching Your Site Visitor’s Experience

Philadelphia Eagles’ Other View Widget powered by the FanFeedr Publishers’ Dashboard

We recently launched our widget generator, available now, for sports sites.

Why would I add a FanFeedr content widget to my site?

The Publishers’ Dashboard enables you to produce real-time, constantly-updated widgets based on a team, league or player of your choosing.

  • Perhaps you write a blog on the New England Patriots and you want to drive deeper engagement to your site.
  • The widget displays the best real-time breaking team news that will keep your readers informed about their favorite franchise.
  • Rather than being one of many sources of content about a team or league, the FanFeedr widget allows you to be the best place to get news and information.
  • This translates into longer stays with your site (third-party sites create a new tab or window) and more repeat traffic.

Carl Desberg, content manager of  Boston Sports Then And Now, explains the value that FanFeedr API widgets bring to his site:

“Boston Sports Then and Now has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past several months, as content and exposure is at an all time high. We are  looking to keep our readers, as up-to-date as possible and make our site a one-stop-shop for Boston Sports news. Now, not only can you read our insightful blog posts, but you can stay on top of your favorite Boston teams.  With the Bruins and Patriots FanFeedr widgets on our homepage, fans no longer have to go anywhere else for breaking news about their favorite teams.”

 

Boston Sport Then & Now’s Patriots News Widget powered by the FanFeedr Publishers’ Dashboard

How difficult is it to generate and install?

You don’t have to be a HTML guru to produce these widgets.

  • FanFeedr does all the hard work for you.
  • The user-friendly instructions will enable you to produce widgets in minutes.
  • You can customize the size of the widget and how many news items that will be displayed.
  • Press save, cut and paste the generated code into a Word Press blog or website.
  • You now have your own team/league newsroom embedded on your site.

Don’t take it from us, listen to what Chris Rott of Fantasy Football Gator had to say:

“FanFeedr has developed a superb image-delivery solution. Thanks to the simplicity of the FanFeedr API, we were able to integrate “play-of-the-day” action images into our Fantasy Football Web site within just a few hours. In addition, the FanFeedr AJAX interface is built on well-known standards that are efficient and easy to implement in either JavaScript or PHP. This flexibility has allowed us to fully automate the administrative aspects of the image-delivery process, helping us to deliver a solid and reliable service to our customers.”

With Fanfeedr API widgets, you too can make your site a hub for sports news.

For more information on the Fanfeedr API widget please CONTACT publisher@fanfeedr.com.

Nov
30

Game On: The New FanFeedr Sports Network Launches Today for Facebook and Twitter Users Who Are Passionate About Sports and Their Teams

The only sports page that avid sports fans need – delivering the best, curated sports content in the business

NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2011 — The new FanFeedr Sports Network (http://www.FanFeedr.com) offers over 400+ robust, team-specific sites and social media team accounts dedicated to providing the most timely and relevant news, photos, video, and sports data for the top sports.

“FanFeedr’s key differentiator is that it has created 400+ FanFeedr Branded Team Sites directly on Facebook and Twitter in addition to its website. What is key is that busy people can see everything their team is doing without ever leaving Facebook or Twitter to get their curated sports news from thousands of sources. Big sites like ESPN and Yahoo Sports do not offer individual team news with the breadth that FanFeedr offers up. FanFeedr has more team accounts that any other service on the Web,” said Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Founder and CEO of FanFeedr.

FanFeedr is not just another aggregator; content is curated from over 9,000 global sources ranging from newspaper beat reporter articles, blogs and Tweets, the top blogs, official league and team sites, Getty Images and AP photos, authenticated player and coach Tweets and much more.

FanFeedr’s product team listened closely to its user base of avid sports fans to better understand their desires regarding the content they wanted most, and how they wanted to consume it. The result of this effort is the new FanFeedr, which provides sports fan consumers with the most comprehensive lens into what’s happening with their favorite teams.

It is drop dead simple! FanFeedr now makes it easy for users to get the best real-time content for their favorite teams. Fans can either go directly to FanFeedr’s new website and pick their favorite team and immediately get all of the best, real-time, curated news and information — in ONE place. Or they can access their favorite team directly on Facebook and Twitter.

As an example, a Washington Redskins fan that’s logged into Facebook or Twitter and wants the latest news on his or her team can get it in one of three ways:

After months of rigorous customer development, the FanFeedr team developed the new FanFeedr Sports Network using lean startup techniques to isolate the core features that any fan of a sports team could possibly want. The design has been hailed as smart and elegant, and easy-to-use by leading user experience people like Mignon Khargie, the award-winning head of design for Salon Internet, as well as the site’s everyday users.

During the customer development process, FanFeedr deployed its unique “social sensing” technology, that not only determines the value of each piece of content, but also the overall value of each content provider, whether it is a national sports site, newspaper, blogger or Twitter account. “Our ‘social sensing’ approach is at the heart of FanFeedr’s curatorial process, which assures our users that they are receiving only the most relevant sports content for their favorite teams,” said Ahmad-Taylor.

Additionally, FanFeedr also uses a proprietary social algorithm to determine the interestingness, or hotness, of each piece of content.

Ahmad-Taylor predicts that a major market trend is happening right now with users consuming their content of interest for their favorite sports teams via social media channels on their mobile devices. Adds Ahmad-Taylor: “FanFeedr provides the best information along a fan’s ‘interest graph,’ as opposed to their ‘social graph,’ and we have been doing it longer and better than anyone else.” It is an untold story because Comscore and Quantcast are unable to track this type of user behavior on Facebook and Twitter. This is done by understanding the social value of each piece of content, as determined through sharing and reading gestures across all of Twitter and Facebook. FanFeedr now derives over 80% of its traffic through the team accounts on Facebook and Twitter and does not get any credit for that traffic from the traditional traffic tracking sources.

“We have learned a great deal from the consumption habits and desires of FanFeedr’s loyal users over the past two years since our initial launch,” said Ahmad-Taylor. “And today, we are launching the next generation of FanFeedr, which I believe will deliver the best user experience possible for sports fans to follow their favorite teams.”

Mr. Ahmad-Taylor has been speaking across the country about the convergence of sports and social media and how they are aligning today.

ABOUT FANFEEDR: The Best Place to Get Your Team News

FanFeedr is the pioneer in the convergence of sports and social media and is positioned as the leader in real-time sports content. Based in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY, FanFeedr is a real-time personalized stream service. The company has delivered the best team-specific news and information since it launched in 2008. FanFeedr has new partnerships with the NFL, SB Nation, the Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles and over 1,300 developers that reach more than 34MM uniques a month. For more information about the company, go to http://news.fanfeedr.com/about/.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Amy Bonetti
Big Mouth Public Relations
415-407-9008
amy@bigmouthpr.com

This press release was issued through eReleases(R).  For more information, visit eReleases Press Release Distribution at http://www.ereleases.com.

 

Nov
15

FanFeedr Re-Launches Sports Blog

The new FanFeedr News A sports blog launched earlier this month. What will differentiate version 2.0 from it’s predecessor, Standing Room Only, is the in-depth sports coverage and robust news content aggregated from FanFeedr.com.  Our staff brings you all of the hot topics and stories from around professional Soccer, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NCAA.

If  its newsworthy, you will find it here.

FanFeedr Sports Editor, Joe Gill brings you all the NFL action you could possibly want. He will have weekly previews of all the NFL match-ups. Each report will bring you the Best of the Best previews from around the Web. Want hot takes of your favorite team prior to the game? It’s all here.

When the games conclude, Joe brings you the best recaps, game MVPs, hot takes and video highlights from around the NFL. This is your one stop for post-game coverage.

Our weekly feature for all the NFL and Fantasy Football junkies, the NFL All-FanFeedr Team, brings you all the studs that were instrumental in their team’s victory. If you fielded this roster, you would have won your fantasy league by a landslide.

As we all know, NFL fans have an insatiable appetite for news, so time to strap on the NFL Feed Bag. The Feed Bag highlights the fantastic finishes, best touchdowns, marquee games, studs and duds of the week in the National Football League.  After feasting on all of this NFL content, there will be no room for seconds.

Check out the all new FanFeedr News today! You won’t be disappointed.

Cheers,

Joe Gill. Sports Editor, FanFeedr