Comments on: SB Nation Scores A Link Deal With The NHL

By: The SportsStream Comes To SBNation

The SportsStream Comes To SBNation — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:33:45 +0000

[...] is a collection of 212 sports blogs across major sports like basketball, baseball, football, and hockey. So far it’s main site, SBNation.com, has been not much more than a glorified directory for [...]

By: DMV: The Nats Could Use Kenny Powers | Mr. Irrelevant

DMV: The Nats Could Use Kenny Powers | Mr. Irrelevant — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:34:25 +0000

[...] Local company SB Nation partners with NHL.com. [Tech Crunch] [...]

By: Jessica Chapel / Railbird v2 - links for 2009-04-14

Jessica Chapel / Railbird v2 - links for 2009-04-14 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:01:35 +0000

[...] SB Nation scores a link deal with the NHL "Sports-blog network SB Nation is now officially sanctioned by the NHL. Posts from its 29 hockey blogs now appear as linked headlines on the homepage of NHL.com." [Shades of the NTRA online task force marketing plan.] (tags: media sports-blog nhl sb-nation business-media) [...]

By: Mike Hickinbotham

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:59:35 +0000

Awesome – NHL.com has made some really positive changes over the last couple of years – this is another one of those changes.

I also liked how NHL.com have linked up to Yahoo Fantasy Sports.

By: スポーツブログネットワークのSB Nation、NHL公式サイトからのリンクをゲット

スポーツブログネットワークのSB Nation、NHL公式サイトからのリンクをゲット — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:27:44 +0000

[...] ［原文へ］ [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:23:42 +0000

Hmm… no mention that SB Nation was founded by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas?

By: MC

MC — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:56:21 +0000

Even better!

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:19:46 +0000

That sounds like a great deal then. Congratulations to your team.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:11:05 +0000

Joe ~
In this case NHL is only selecting posts that they want. Our writers are free to publish what they want on their sites, but the NHL doesn’t have to take it. We don’t tell them what to publish on their site and vice-versa.

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:47:17 +0000

Interesting. I wonder what this means in terms of oversight on these blogs. Does this mean that these bloggers can’t post anything negative about the NHL, a team, or player? Sometimes I think quality blogs like the ones on SB Nation are better to be left independent. I think that is what makes them appealing to sports fans that are looking for something different then standard news on NHL.com.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:27:12 +0000

You’ve only linked to Compete.com stats for SB Nation’s hub page. Since SB Nation is a network of 200 sites, you’d have to add up all of that traffic to compare it to others (Quantcast does so). SB Nation does cover all major pro sport teams as well as college and other sports such as MMA (MMAMania.com, BloodyElbow.com), Golf (Waggleroom.com), Nascar (4ever3blog.com) and others.

By: Mike Kerns

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:23:59 +0000

congrats to Jim and Tyler. SB Nation has a valuable property with organic growth, good content, and loyal users…it can and will scale to grow larger…big believer and have been for a long time.

By: technotopia

technotopia — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:20:11 +0000

who where thinks that this recession talk is overblown? http://iamned.com/blog/

By: MC

MC — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:13:28 +0000

This is a great first step…presuming there are rapidly following steps in other sports niches: college football, baseball (MLB and farm leagues), soccer/futbol, etc.

Bleacher Report seems to be stealthy growing in comparison:
http://bit.ly/TJRiO