After realising they were fighting a losing battle over bloggers and smaller publishers robbing their images, Getty Images made a bold move to make a library of images available as free to use.
With seemingly infinite pages of content across the web, almost all furnished by an image, it was becoming an increasingly fruitless chase for Getty to protect their images from misuse, and of course the legal costs and challenges that it was presenting.
JDG answered an SOS from the National Football Museum to take part in their #FM100 challenge – a Guinness World Record attempt involving the Football Manager Touch 2016 game.
Featured in the museum’s ‘Pitch to Pixel: The World of Football Gaming’ exhibition, the challenge involves 100 different managers playing the game on the same save, for at least an hour each, over 100 days.
We’re fast to praise social media as being brilliant for fan engagement – but nothing beats a traditional signing session.
Cheshire Phoenix, a professional club in the British Basketball League, arrange a signing session for after each match.
As first revealed in a blog back in November, Instagram has been working on a multiple accounts function.
The good news it is now implemented across both iOS and Android, meaning marketeers are now able to control multiple accounts.
A new TV advert for the British Ice Hockey website is now airing on Premier Sports.
Premier Sports currently televise the Elite Ice Hockey League, the NHL and several other ice hockey leagues across Europe, making them the broadcaster of choice for ice hockey fans.
This time of year enables you to look back at the previous 12 months and of course ahead to the new one.
2015 saw 98 live games attended, a personal record.
Of those 98, highlights would probably have to be Warrington Town’s Doodson Sport Cup final triumph over Farsley on penalties at Edgeley Park; a first visit to Braehead Arena to see the Clan ice hockey team take on Manchester Storm; and a very hot-tempered rugby league Championship season opener between Leigh and Bradford.
Instagram is the fastest growing social network, but so far, it has presented more frustrations than opportunities for someone in the sports marketing space.
Friday November 7th, 2014. A date that will be forever remembered as the day Warrington Town FC firmly put themselves on the footballing map.
