11/15 Notes
The Red Wings defeated the Vancouver Canucks last night, 3-2. For the always entertaining game recap, check out Abel to Yzerman. This win was the Wings ninth straight victory making it the sixth time in franchise history that the Wings have won nine games in a row.
A friend of mine also happened to talk to Jason Williams on the phone a few days ago and said she could definitely tell he had had a concussion so maybe the team is doing the right thing by holding off his play until after Thanksgiving.
Notes on the NHL
- Alexander Ovechkin has fired his agent, Don Meehan.
- The NHL has made an agreement with YouTube to display clips from games, which sounds great to me. I just can’t get over that the league started working on this over the summer and actually thought of something that would reach out to a younger potential fanbase.
- Much “debate” has been going on in regards to the new Messier Leadership Award. Actually, it’s not really a debate because all the bloggers who have said something about it agree- a leadership award should not be named in honor of Messier.
- In today’s issue of Sports Business Daily, Ted Leonsis (owner of the Washington Capitals) talks about the blogosphere and what he forsees in the future in regards to advertising.
Leonsis said the blogosphere is another area that will offer additional revenue in the future. The Capitals have built a blogging community, and Leonsis said, “I can see us selling advertising and search fields and building tools and syndicating that out across our blogosphere. They’ll all have ad units in the same place and when we sell an advertiser we’ll bring that across the network. All of a sudden you’re starting to see this specialist, vertical, almost IPTV-like network blooming and I just want to be at the forefront.†Like other champions of the Internet, Leonsis expects more advertising spending to move online. Currently, people spend 18-22% of their day consuming media online, he said, while advertisers are only spending 6% of budgets online. “There’s this disconnect,†Leonsis said. “If we get 22% of ad dollars, that’s another $40(B).â€
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November 15th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
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November 15th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
What a great, sad game, Christy. We had you beat, but Luongo blew it. Heartbreaking….. (sniff)
November 16th, 2006 at 3:09 am
[…] Seen on Behind the Jersey: - In today’s issue of Sports Business Daily, Ted Leonsis (owner of the Washington Capitals) talks about the blogosphere and what he forsees in the future in regards to advertising. Leonsis said the blogosphere is another area that will offer additional revenue in the future. The Capitals have built a blogging community, and Leonsis said, “I can see us selling advertising and search fields and building tools and syndicating that out across our blogosphere. They’ll all have ad units in the same place and when we sell an advertiser we’ll bring that across the network. All of a sudden you’re starting to see this specialist, vertical, almost IPTV-like network blooming and I just want to be at the forefront.†Like other champions of the Internet, Leonsis expects more advertising spending to move online. Currently, people spend 18-22% of their day consuming media online, he said, while advertisers are only spending 6% of budgets online. “There’s this disconnect,†Leonsis said. “If we get 22% of ad dollars, that’s another $40(B).†[…]