Monthly Archives: July 2019

Official Supporters Club Websites on Follr – Second Quarter Content Partners

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The Follr platform provides highly customizable Websites enabling sports fans and official supporters clubs to create a community-centered on a team, sport, person or shared interest and passion.

Each community Website aggregates real-time social media content and includes:

  • Marketing and communication tools
  • Ecommerce services
  • The ability to automate content sharing
  • An extensive event management feature set
  • Aggregated real-time content from multiple online sources
  • Discussion groups

Follr additionally provides franchises, brands, media companies and organizations in the sports and entertainment industries with a broad suite of services that improve fan engagement, protect brand and increase revenues.

Follr community Websites now have access to over 100,000 sport-related videos with content from the most heavily trafficked channels on YouTube and fan Podcasts. They include videos from:

And podcasts from:

Team specific content providers include, for video:

Tottenham:

Arsenal:

Chelsea:

Liverpool:

Manchester United:

Manchester City:

Everton:

West Ham:

and podcasts:

Tottenham:

Arsenal:

Chelsea:

Liverpool:

Manchester United:

Manchester City:

Everton:

West Ham:

To submit a request to have your favorite YouTube channel or podcast added to Follr please let us know.

To find your local supporter’s club log in here.

* New in second quarter 2019.

Are Ticker Tape Parades a Thing of the Past?

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Source: Statista

Today the national U.S. Women’s soccer team is being celebrated with a ticker tape parade in downtown Manhattan for their World Cup win against the Netherlands this past Sunday.

The first ticker tape parade in New York took place on October 28, 1886, as a celebration of the new Statue of Liberty. The impromptu event ran between Battery park, at the southern-most tip of Manhattan where the Statue is visible, through the Financial district and up to City Hall. The route is now known as the Canyon of Heroes.

Originally, ticker tape was a paper strip where messages were recorded on a telegraphic tape machine. They were remotely driven devices used to provide updated stock market quotes. The used tape messages were in abundance in the Financial district and were thrown from windows in celebration of any given parade. Today, ticker tape is replaced with tons of recycled paper and confetti.

As the chart below illustrates, the heyday of ticker tape parades was in the 1950s, after World War II. In that decade, there were 71 parades, which welcomed foreign dignitaries, U.S. generals, veterans, and sports stars. The event has waned in recent years, with only three ticker tape parades in this decade, all celebrating sports wins for New York area teams or U.S. national teams. In the past decade, two out of the three ticker tape parades have been to celebrate the World Cup wins of the U.S. Women’s soccer team.