UEFA Champions League Final 2011: Facebook Fanpage Showdown - FC Barcelona vs. Manchester United

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The ultimate comparison of the UEFA Champions League 2011 finalists' Facebook Fanpages - that accidentally also are the most successful sports team pages on Facebook overall: FC Barcelona and Manchester United

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Foreword

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Scope:

• Only outside data captured (visible to everyone, no FB insights)

• Only international posts (language English (US), location Berlin)

• Post analysis: 60+ posts from May 16 and before

• Post frequency, post type distribution: All posts in April 2011

• Data published here is only valuable as directional information

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Post frequency, post type distribution

video other photo

links

links

during April 2011: 50 postsshare of links among all posts: 82,0%

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during April 2011: 89 postsshare of links among all posts: 73,03%

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Post frequency, post type distribution

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Average from 16 sports related Facebook fanpages, including NBA, NFL (posts in January 2011), NHL, ESPN Soccernet, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Yahoo! Sports, Nike Football, Bayern Munich, FIBA, Vancouver 2010 (Feb 2010) and others.

Number of posts during April 2011 Share of links among posts in April 2011

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Engagement with posts

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61 posts analyzed between Apr 6 and May 7Feedback ratio calculated on 14,36 mn fans29,4% shown for illustration

64 posts analyzed between Apr 22 and May 16Feedback ratio calculated on 13,68 mn fans31,2% shown for illustration

percentage of fans that engagedwith each post (like, comment)

0,294%

percentage of fans that engagedwith each post (like, comment)

0,312%

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Highest engaging posts

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61 posts analyzed between Apr 6 and May 7Feedback ratio calculated on 14,36 mn fans

64 posts analyzed between Apr 22 and May 16Feedback ratio calculated on 13,68 mn fans

0,294% 0,312%

1,188% of fanbase liked and/or commented 1,658% of fanbase liked and/or commented

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Likes and comments

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61 posts analyzed between Apr 6 and May 7Feedback ratio calculated on 14,36 mn fans

64 posts analyzed between Apr 22 and May 16Feedback ratio calculated on 13,68 mn fans

percentage of commentswith each post‘s feedback

0,294%

percentage of commentswith each post‘s feedback

13,86%10,09%

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Most commented posts (in relation to likes)

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61 posts analyzed between Apr 6 and May 7Feedback ratio calculated on 14,36 mn fans

64 posts analyzed between Apr 22 and May 16Feedback ratio calculated on 13,68 mn fans

0,294% 0,312%

30,12% of feedback are comments37,17% of feedback are comments

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Posting content – sharing media

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61 posts analyzed between Apr 6 and May 7Feedback ratio calculated on 14,36 mn fans

64 posts analyzed between Apr 22 and May 16Feedback ratio calculated on 13,68 mn fans

share of photos andvideos among posts

share of photos among posts(no videos)

9,4%16,39%

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Media posts with most feedback

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61 posts analyzed between Apr 6 and May 7Feedback ratio calculated on 14,36 mn fans

64 posts analyzed between Apr 22 and May 16Feedback ratio calculated on 13,68 mn fans

0,312%

0,656% of fanbase liked and/or commented

0,608% of fanbase liked and/or commented

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Networking within Facebook – exploiting FB features

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16,39%

Likes 15 additional pages7 of those by FCB

Likes 1 additional page

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Player activity on Facebook

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Messi, Pique, Villa: approx. 17,5 million fans Rooney, Scholes, Ferdinand: approx. 6,7 million fans

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Embracing social media - fans

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http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/63091,news-comment,news-politics,croatian-referee-gives-yellow-card-to-player-for-dying

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/25/darron-gibson-quits-twitter-abuse

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Embracing social media - players

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http://images.teamtalk.com/08/12/800x600/Red-card_1616371.jpg

http://deadspin.com/5804120/totally-anonymous-soccer-player-sues-twitter-for-saying-ryan-giggs-had-an-affair