Category: Media Spreadability in Sport

Is TikTok revolutionising the Sport Industry? The Role of TikTok in Shaping Gen-Z Sports Culture through humour

TikTok has significantly transformed the sports industry, particularly through the International Paralympic Committee's engaging content strategy aimed at Gen-Z audiences. Humorous videos effectively raise awareness of disability sports but risk trivializing their seriousness. The challenge lies in utilizing humor to promote inclusivity while maintaining respect for the professionalism of athletes.

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Darts: Hitting the Bullseye and Conquering Platformization in Sport Media

Darts has evolved from a pub game to a major televised sport, with the 2024 World Championship final attracting 3.71 million viewers. Platformization, including dedicated streaming services like PDC.tv and the rise of social media, has greatly contributed to this popularity. These platforms offer global reach and engagement, allowing the sport to attract new fans worldwide.

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How sustainable is the Olympics on YouTube?

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) portrayal of environmental sustainability on YouTube came under scrutiny in a recent study. Despite a focus on positive societal impact, analysis of over 13,000 videos revealed limited attention to climate and environmental issues, with minimal self-criticism. This suggests a downplaying of Olympic sustainability efforts. For more insights, refer to the full paper.

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Video Podcast – The power of media upon the Past, Present and Future of the Olympic Games.

Welcome back to the latest part of the series, where things are being presented in a different format today to give you guys a different viewing experience! Today’s episode is an video podcast hosted by myself. The video podcast will be centered around the past, present and future of the Olympic Games and highlighting the media's power... Continue Reading →

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Audio Podcast – A game between the Three Lions and the Lionesses beyond the football pitch.

If you join me today after following me through my journey of previous blogs, thank you. If not, please feel free to scroll back and check out previous posts of mine about this topic. The blogs contain an insight to the past relationship between media and broadcasted sports. Current digital media interaction within sport and... Continue Reading →

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Implications of the growth of women’s football (6)

This is the sixth and FINAL episode post in this blog series. A video podcast for you, discussing the potential future implications that women's football will face, and suggestions of how to optimise the future using trends from the men's game. I really hope you have enjoyed the content produced on my page! Thanks again... Continue Reading →

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VIDEO PODCAST – How Convergence Culture and Spreadable Media has influenced F1’s Marketing Strategy to attract a Gen-Z audience

The fourth instalment of a 6-part series aiming to explore the historical, current and future symbiosis between sport and media by analysing the media and digital transformations that have developed within the sport industry and sport media ecology. Now on course to reach 1bn fans in 2022, the following video podcast explores how F1 have... Continue Reading →

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Has Instagram created the Fake Footballer?

From a very static internet showing one-way communication in web 1.0, towards web 2.0 that encourages complex networking, interaction, the main characteristics of social media include; framework for participation, content agnostic, community features (Lingren, 2021). The creation of social profiles has aided the rapid rise of Instagram in a sporting sense, football clubs can now... Continue Reading →

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What impact has media convergence had on sport and is it here to stay?

As with the process of evolution, things change and adapt to suit the current environment, and the same principle applies to the world of technology and media. The first 2 blogs of this series explored how media and sport were consumed in past decades, e.g., one directional mass media, and secondly how sport is produced... Continue Reading →

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A Podcast about Podcasts in Sport

https://youtu.be/ivYXWIeUecI This audio podcast discusses the growth of podcasts as a media form in the sport industry, drawing upon my experience of creating and consuming podcasts, as well as referring to academic literature on the subject.

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