YouTube, with over 2 billion users, is shaping modern society and revolutionizing sports consumption. The platform offers accessibility to sports content, benefiting amateur and youth levels. Additionally, it simplifies complex football tactics, making them accessible to novice coaches, fostering football's progress from the grassroots. This democratization of knowledge is vital for the sport's evolution.
Have Social Media Disrupted Football Consumption?
While researching to write a chapter on digital and social media disruptions on the consumption of football for an upcoming book on The Business of FIFA I went about collecting data from a particular social media platform - YouTube - to discuss the possible transformations that the so-called digital revolution has caused on sport. For... Continue Reading →