What a year it’s been to be Editor-in-Chief of Football FanCast. We’ve expanded our editorial team exponentially including an office in Bangkok, our readership has grown and with it our standing within the Beautiful Game, and we’ve even won an award.
It’s been a real rollercoaster and while there were times when toiling away covering a 0-0 bore draw or hogging the telly on a Saturday (much to the annoyance of family and friends) has been difficult – the team’s commitment and hard work has certainly paid off.Our LIVE blogs have gone from a trial we ran in our spare time to the site’s USP and the reason we’re mixing it with the big boys commercially, while the site’s look, content and reputation continues to get better and better.From the sub editors to the writers, the LIVE bloggers to the content capturers we’ve pulled together to make something really special – long may it continue in 2015.– Greg Newcombe, Editor in Chief of Football FanCast
It has been a brilliant year for our flagship site FootballFanCast.com – here are the editorial team’s top five moments:
Award Winning Blog
Our Football FanCast team won a well-deserved award this year at the Football Blogging Awards. The editorial team won Best Established Blog 2014 – fan’s choice, which is the icing on top of a brilliant year.
100th Million Visit
This year marks FFC having it’s 100th million visitor – with ever-growing numbers FootballFanCast.com is growing year on year. The editorial team work hard daily to ensure that the football news coming to you is of the highest quality.
Ever-growing Social Following
Even after a 300% growth on Twitter, @FootballFanCast is waiting for your follow! You can’t be serious all the time, so here is a taster of the top quality social media banter from the social community team:
So, yeah, nice shoes Gervinho… pic.twitter.com/3F94OeDMUH
— FootballFanCast.com (@FootballFanCast) May 1, 2014
Old Trafford will be rocking for the Round of Last 16 in the #ChampionsLeague pic.twitter.com/GziTrqaevT
— FootballFanCast.com (@FootballFanCast) December 15, 2014
Arsenal fans watching the Champions League draw #AFC http://t.co/ZnCgslkTKS — FootballFanCast.com (@FootballFanCast) December 15, 2014
Our Live Match Centre
Our live editorial team has gone from strength to strength in 2014 – and we are now live blogging all major Premier League games. Don’t forget to slide over to our live blogs:
Slide in to our live blog like… http://t.co/DnSbCFuVpF #MCFC #SAINTSFC https://t.co/0vhnwkLNAq — FootballFanCast.com (@FootballFanCast) November 30, 2014
Working with Big Brands
Over the last year Football FanCast has worked with Europcar, BT Sport, Pot Noodle, Trust Ford, Thomson Sport and Ford. By creating quality content they gave huge exposure to a variety of campaigns in 2014: