A recent Rapleaf business report found that Sports fans tend to be social media fans, with more that 60% of respondents having more than 50 friends online. Other stats found:
- At 6.58 hours per month, time spent on content sites which provide news, information, and entertainment is up 88% from five years ago. Despite the emergence of social networks, and in particular the rapid growth of Facebook, it is the content sites which engage web surfers’ attention the most these days. (OPA, 2009)
- As per compete.com, In August, football sites were up 92.2% over July. NFL.com led with 6.5 million unique views, fanstasysports.yahoo.com came in 2nd with 4.75 million unique views (up 79%), and fftoolbox.com was up 350% with 579,000 UV’s. 43%
