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Football FanCast profiles the global Champions League fan

Mary Varney — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:05:12 +0000

58.5% of fans globally start thinking about the next match straight after the final whistle. This is just as important in the UK as 52.1% are keen to know about the next match. Only 13% of fans starting thinking about the game on the same day. Nearly 70% of fans watch a match at home, some minor variations by market; the percentage is much higher in South East Asia due to the time…

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Snack Social Summary-Facebook to take on YouTube, Instagram to roll out Ads in the UK, and Bebo is back!

Mary Varney — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:57:01 +0000

Did you know… Social media ad spending in the UK is expected to double this year. Here is what else has happened in social media this week: Facebook is encouraging some of YouTube’s core content creators to start trialling distribution on their site. So far Collective Digital Studio and Makers Studio have tested this out. Apple’s new upgrade to IOS 8 enables users to upload…

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Snack Social Summary-Premier League launches Away Days App, Facebook introducing Expiring Posts, and Bookmaker Coral introduces Age Gate on Twitter account

Mary Varney — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:47:11 +0000

With the announcement of the iPhone 6 this week it may have be easy to miss some of the other bits of social and digital news. That’s where we can help: This app has been created for the fan attending away games – check out the screenshots and download it here ahead of this weekend’s away matches. Last week we mentioned Snapchat launching public stories around live events – this week…

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Snack Social Summary-Transfer Deadline Day, NFL have created their own Twitter bespoke match centre, and Instagram launches its Hyperlapse App

Mary Varney — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:49:28 +0000

Our Facebook newsfeed is no longer filled with #ALSIceBucketChallenges and we have all spent the last week realising how unpopular we are on Twitter through them opening their analytics feature up to everyone. Here is a summary of what else is new on social media: @TwitterAdsUK provided their followers with this interactive way to follow the transfer deadline rumours: All snaps from a…

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Arsenal top Twitter stakes as Snack Media acquire leading fan forum

taylor — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:59:27 +0000

Snack Media have recently acquired the highly respected Arsenal Mania website and forum. One of Arsenal’s largest independent fan sites, it has been one of the go-to places for opinion, discussion and debate for avid Gunners fans from around the globe. The news coincides with Arsenal officially surpassing the four million followers mark on Twitter today – the most for an English club on the…

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Good Things Come in Snack-Size Packages

Mary Varney — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:57:25 +0000

2013 – The year of the ‘selfie’, Vine and Snapchat. All of these are short, easy ways to grab somebody’s attention on social media and convey a message in seconds. Increasingly in today’s world, people are time poor. The rise of Twitter only goes to support this and reinforces a behaviour that is becoming the norm. People are looking for bite-size updates that mean they don’t need to spend…

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The UK is Twitter’s most mobile market in all of Europe

taylor — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:25:38 +0000

Fascinating research was uncovered by statistical goliaths Nielsen last week who revealed that as much as 80 per cent of Twitter’s UK traffic is being contemporarily driven by mobile. Having long been impossible to ignore for any aspiring business, the latest research now suggests that UK-based Twitter visitors are not simply mobile mad, but they are also more engaged that your average Twitter…

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Capital One Cup Live Blog Event

Mary Varney — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:42:34 +0000

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FootballFanCast.com Relaunches

Mary Varney — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:55:08 +0000

FootballFanCast.com is delighted to announce its new website re-launch – a bold, fresh statement with a striking look and opinionated tone throughout. You only need to visit the homepage to obtain a flavour of what the modern day football fan is talking about. The new layout ensures the website is far more manageable for the user, but alongside its slick layout and easier navigation is much…

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Google Launch App to ‘Helpout’

Mary Varney — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:57:30 +0000

The whole foundation of Google is a search engine that can answer people’s questions, now they are expanding so that humans can answer them too. At the beginning of November, Google announced ‘Helpouts’. This is where people will be able to video-link up to other experts to receive advice on home improvements, cooking, or even medical advice. The benefit of this is that Google will vet the…

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