I was recently invited to give a keynote talk on digital sport and fan engagement at Coppead Graduate School of Business in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Like my own University at Salford, the staff and students and the local sports clubs in Brazil are all very interested in using technologies Read more…
In this final part of our digital sport and fan engagement series, we discuss smartphone apps. With over 5 billion mobile devices on the planet and 2.5 billion of these are smartphones, this provides an incredible opportunity for sports clubs to engage with fans on a global scale. Smartphone apps Read more…
The term Internet of Things (IoT) dates back to 1999 and has become more popular in recent times to describe the network of various devices connected to the Internet. A recent poll on Consumer Affairs showed that although 70% of people owned an IoT device, only 20% had a firm grasp Read more…
In part 3 of this blog post series about digital sport and fan engagement, we turn our attentions to the growing field of eSports. Playing video games competitively has been around since the first games were released. The rise of competitive video gaming In 1980, Atari held a Space Invaders competition Read more…
Digital sport for fan engagement is a growth area as sports clubs and players seek to use new technologies to build their brands and reach new audiences. The business of sport is huge. To give some idea of the scale of sport, in 2018, Forbes released a table of the Read more…