SportsBlog Adds Targeted Audience Sites To Its Network; Helps Fuel Record First Quarter Growth

NEW YORK - April 14, 2015 - PRLog -- SportsBlog, the fastest growing platform for superfans, athletes and sports media voices, continued to see rapid growth in the latest comScore Numbers. Fueled by the addition of a host of targeted sites, greater participation from athlete bloggers and an increased social media traction, the platform is now seeing record traffic year-over-year, with more growth projected in the coming months with the addition of key platforms dedicated to baseball and the NFL and NBA Drafts. SportsBlog now has an average of 40 million page views a month, with 1 out of 10 males (between the ages of 18-34) in the US visiting daily, according to comScore.

“Our business model to be a platform that is custom-tailored for sports publishing, easy to use and well trafficked continues to gain steam, and our latest numbers combined with our partnerships show that we are growing and the best is yet to come,” said Kevin April, SportBlog co-founder and COO. “The engagement time with a diverse audience increases every month, brands are seeing and enjoying value, and our popularity as a smart digital destination is quickly making SportsBlog the right home for millions who want to engage and be engaged in sports big and small.”

Sites that have now joined the platform include:  sports technology site gaming and gambling news site The Daily Payoff, sports media site SportsTechie, Digital Sports Desk, China Sports Connection, sports gossip news site Terez Owens, African American-athlete focused The Shadow League, NHL Trade Rumors, MyMLBDraft, Sports City, as well as leading team targeted sites like Dodgers Nation, Lakers Nation, Warriors World, leading Dallas Cowboys site Blue Star Times and sites hosted by media personalities like Seth Everett and the voice of New York City Football Club Glenn Crooks among others. The platform also has helped to streamline the digital experience for over 25,000 fan and niche sports sites, all of which receive a wide variety of benefits from SportsBlog, including participation in the site’s innovative revenue-share program, cross-promotion and publishing tools.

SportsBlog is also hosting hundreds of current and former athletes using the SportsBlog platform to tell their stories, ranging from recent Basketball Hall of Fame selectee Spencer Haywood to Cynopsis Media Award nominee Charlie Villanueva of the Dallas Mavericks to San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Torrey Smith (who broke the news he was leaving the Baltimore Ravens on his blog, resulting in the sites biggest one day traffic total to date of over 1 million views).

In recent weeks, the platform has garnered its most attention by partnering with the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) to launch their player app and for hosting a series of Google Hangouts with personalities like Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman, Villanueva, WNBA stars Tamika Catchings and Cappie Pondexter, NBA Legend Sam Perkins and others.

About SportsBlog

SportsBlog is the world's fastest growing blogging destination for the sports obsessed. The site features authoritative news and fresh commentary from popular sports writers along with more than 20,000 blogs by superstars, superfans and everyone in between. It's also the platform of choice for many professional athletes – more of them blog on SportsBlog.com than on any other site. The SportsBlog Media Group is made up of some of the most popular sports sites online, including LakersNation, TheShadowLeague and DodgersNation.

Contact:  Talia Bargil Bloom | VP, Player Engagement, SportsBlog  talia@sportsblog.com  |  954 254 5465

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