Everything Ryan Spoon said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
ESPN digital hit 10 billion monthly minutes, 1.5 billion from fantasy
“This past month was, across ESPN, our historically great month. Year over year, across multiple, you know measurements, 30, 40% growth. We had ten billion minutes across all ESPN digital. Across all digital. And over one and a half billion of that was fantasy.”
Sunday is ESPN digital's busiest day despite lacking Sunday NFL broadcasts
“Our most active day of the year is Sunday. And coincidentally, we do not have NFL Sunday on our air. Fantasy makes a big chunk of that.”
Requiring Facebook logins elevates online comment and engagement quality for ESPN
“And simple things like using Facebook as a qualifier for conversation. It lifts the quality of engagement.”
Native Twitter video playback is ESPN's fastest-growing video segment
“Fastest growing part of our video business is, you know, again, frictionless, one click video play within the Twitter feed.”
ESPN SportsCenter app logged-in user rate grew from 0% to 70%
“Over the last year, you know, we put a gate up in front of our largest Mobile apps, SportsCenter and in a year went from zero percent of people logged in because they were customizing to the device as opposed to the user name, and it's now, you know, around 70…”
ESPN signed multiple startup deals from one a16z executive briefing day
“And in six hours probably met 15 companies. This was one of them. And we walked out of there actually with a couple deals, a couple interesting partnerships.”
ESPN expects to reach 15 million fantasy sports players this year
“We'll have, I think across all of our fantasy games this year, fifteen million players.”
ESPN.com is being fully redesigned around personalized user content
“We're in the process and it's in beta now with a about a 100,000 randomly sampled users, but we're gonna totally redesign ESPN.com, and a very significant chunk of the real estate across all pages is specifically for you versus me.”
ESPN sends personalized video clip alerts within 15 seconds of live plays
“On Saturday, we will cut a thousand live clips from football Across college football, and we'll buzz your phone within 15 seconds of those plays happening on the field.”
Over 55% of ESPN users exclusively access content on mobile devices
“Last month, 55% of our users exclusively accessed us on a mobile device.”
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