Social Media Soccer

What is socialmediasoccer.com?

Social media accounts of soccer teams and individual players of the Serie A have financial value.

Socialmediasoccer.com is a platform that helps monitor these accounts. The objective is to define the relationship between sports results and the authoritativeness of teams' social media by providing a tool that is able to measure visibility and the ability to engage within the world of soccer.

The platform:

• collects and displays data from social media accounts in real time;
• analyses and assesses the data extracted;
• calculates the social media value of Serie A teams and players, a value that is defined by an algorithm.

What is Social Media Value?

Social Media Value, realised in cooperation with ICT INNOVA, the first innovative start-up by the Rome University of La Sapienza, analyses the social media feeds across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube and returns a value between 0 and 100. This Social Media Value is calculated on a monthly basis.

Being aware of your authoritativeness and having a positive interaction with your fans can be translated into a financial value. #SMVALUE is a scoring system aimed at measuring the ability of one or more teams and/or sports persons to attract visibility, also as a comparison between them.

The algorithm analyses and processes over 230 metrics, assessing both quantitative and qualitative factors.

How does it work?

Socialmediasoccer.com analyses:

• 230 metrics

The Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram feeds of the 20 Serie A teams, those of their main sponsors and technical sponsors, and the feeds of all Serie A players.

Why socialmediasoccer.com

Socialmediasoccer.com is a platform designed for those who want to analyse the world of soccer and the Italian championship in particular, in order to get in touch with a very precise target audience. The aim is to have a tool to monitor the evolution of social media and to assign a financial value to social communication channels.

Who is it for?

The platform is a tool that can be useful to various stakeholders. In particular, we have identified four:

• Journalists and insiders who need to produce content and need supporting sources and data;
• Sponsors and investors who need to monitor where and how to communicate, and to assess the relative results;
• Soccer teams, players and managers who wish to analyse and optimise their social media strategy;
• Image consultants who wish to quantify and map all activities generated across social media accounts.

Services

Services for businesses

• SMV analysis and assessment tools
• Identifying soccer influencers
• Communication and marketing strategies for sponsors
• Integrated campaigns, creation of content and operational management to position products and services
• Monitoring influencers' evolution and economic exploitation of activities.

Services for teams and players

• Optimisation of operational management of digital activity and social media profiles
• Identifying a sponsor plan
• Production of content, editorial plans and localization of digital activity
• Economic exploitation and assessment of social media profiles
• Social media training for athletes, teams and youth academies
• Exploitation of fan engagement activities

Twitter Challenge: marketing and gaming

Within Social Media Soccer, the Twitter Challenge is a special challenge won by interacting. Every day, the teams that face off on the pitch also face off on Twitter. With our Twitter Challenge, we monitor and measure the level of interaction of the tweets proposed by the teams' official accounts. The Twitter Challenge takes place through "analysing the engagement rate" of tweets by teams during the match. It's a game that is easily understood by users, but also very useful for investors and those who want to intercept the "micro-moments" of a specific target. Indeed, the Twitter Challenge lets us get closer to fans at a moment of maximum exposure with tailored messages.

The Twitter Challenge calculates the weighted ER values according to the number of a teams' followers, in a given time window of 1 hour before and 2 hours after a match. Goals are determined by defining a threshold ER in advance. The ER values vary according to the groups of followers that a team has acquired.