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Yaffe: MLB youth viewership fell faster than the NBA's after restricting social content
“Major League Baseball took a very different approach in the sort of middle of the last decade, and didn't allow nearly as much content on social. And you weren't seeing youth viewership increase for them. You were actually seeing youth viewership decrease at a…”
Yaffe: 80% of NBA YouTube consumption was outside the US
“By the time I left, 80% of NBA consumption on YouTube happened outside the US.”
Yaffe: NBA was the first sports league on YouTube, Instagram, and Snap
“We were the first sports league on YouTube, the first sports league on Instagram, the first sports league on Snap.”
Yaffe: Mexican teens brought Space Jam toys as top sports memorabilia
“We did a focus group of teenagers in Mexico. And we asked them to bring their most treasured sports item. Their most treasured sports product. And so I was expecting soccer jerseys of their favorite team and the, you know, soccer ball or baseball bat from thei…”
Yaffe: The NBA's US audience is a decade younger than the NFL's
“And if you look at the average audience age of the NBA, which is a decade younger than the NFL in the US, you know, it's hard to draw a direct line between those two things, but I have to think there's a pretty strong connection that the availability of and th…”