"the acquisition of Athletic.net, the #1 US High School meet entry system by number of meets, used by over 50% of US High School teams, with over 30,000 yearly coaches actively using Athletic.net..."
Will they help it grow?
"the acquisition of Athletic.net, the #1 US High School meet entry system by number of meets, used by over 50% of US High School teams, with over 30,000 yearly coaches actively using Athletic.net..."
Will they help it grow?
I laughed out loud at the "16 million yearly unique visitors and 160 million+ pageviews" per year and the Runnerspace should be thought of as the facebook for running parts.
Stats = not true -- brojos chime in
Facebook = stagnation, loss of interest from youth -- great comparison
Oh no! Runnerspace ruins everything. I hope they leave it be.
No way jose wrote:
I laughed out loud at the "16 million yearly unique visitors and 160 million+ pageviews" per year
Seems reasonable. Quantcast shows
www.athletic.netwith 8 million+ yearly uniques and 110 million+ pageviews last year. So, they would be a large chunk of that overall total...
Who cares? Runnerspace is being hollowed out by under 24s on social media sites. It's over for Runnerspace.
Can they then dump the Taylor's from XC Nation blogging on the site?
Welp, hopefully another site steps up. Runnerspace is poison.
flosports must be out in force today surprised we are not seeing pop ups from all these threads
Olympicbound wrote:
Can they then dump the Taylor's from XC Nation blogging on the site?
They could but that would go against what they are trying to do. RS wants to be the hub of the sport - anyone can create their own site. RS doesn't support the Taylors, but they are welcome to create their own site just as anyone else is.
i see the synergies. finally a platform that is mobile, responsive and modern that will gather steam here and in canada. easily monitized for a return
ahhhh wrote:
flosports must be out in force today surprised we are not seeing pop ups from all these threads
Flotrack isn't much better than Runnerspace, they get overly excited about everything and the paywall is outrageously high for the product. Their site layout is much better though.
really barbarians at the gate here...
SPSL alumni wrote:
Flotrack isn't much better than Runnerspace, they get overly excited about everything and the paywall is outrageously high for the product. Their site layout is much better though.
But they are very different. I like Flotrack's layout more, and they generally have better coverage of specific meets. But if Flotrack isn't there and/or someone else has the rights, Flotrack behaves like that meet doesn't exist. RunnerSpace tries to get info and results from everywhere - even Flotrack exclusive events. They even publish links to Flotrack Live Webcasts. Flotrack would never do that.
http://livewebcasts.runnerspace.com/I don't understand why this is newsworthy. Milesplit was acquired by flotrack and now Athletic.net was acquired by Runnerspace. In both cases crap bought more crap and made a blog post about it.
All four of these groups have not gotten it right yet and together their merges only further complicate things. At least one thing we can be certain about is both Runnerspace and Flocasts know how to foolishly spend money that they didn't accumulate through their own efforts.
Specialize Web Media are being torpedoed by Standard Social Media platforms such as instagram, vine, etc.
Runnerspace is the WORST WEBSITE I've ever been to. It's disorienting. It's painfully ugly and impossible to navigate.
Sucks for Athletic.net.
SPSL Alumni wrote:
Welp, hopefully another site steps up. Runnerspace is poison.
Why are they poison ?
I just never liked their interface or slow servers...
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They fixed the later and improved the former...
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Judge Dredd wrote:
I don't understand why this is newsworthy. Milesplit was acquired by flotrack and now Athletic.net was acquired by Runnerspace. In both cases crap bought more crap and made a blog post about it.
All four of these groups have not gotten it right yet and together their merges only further complicate things.
I would call athletic.net anything but crap. At least in Oregon it has made a huge difference with efficient meet entries, results, and record keeping. Every high school in the state uses it for all meet entries and results. You may be from an area where it is used more sporadically, or view it only as a site to look at national leaders, but from my perspective, and I think most coaches in Oregon, it has been a major major positive in meet and team management. I know there are some other options out there that may also do a good job, but Athletic.net is far from crap.
Well said. What athletic.net does for coaches is great. You don't become the most used online meet registration site in the nation by being crap.
No way jose wrote:
I laughed out loud at the "16 million yearly unique visitors and 160 million+ pageviews" per year and the Runnerspace should be thought of as the facebook for running parts.
Stats = not true -- brojos chime in
Facebook = stagnation, loss of interest from youth -- great comparison
I don't believe those numbers unless they are counting athletic.net's traffic, and/or USATF.TV's traffic.
Athletic.net is the much bigger website than runnerspace in terms of traffic and page views yet Runnerspace is doing the acquiring.
On a similar note, Milesplit was a bigger website that Flotrack in terms of traffic and page views yet Flotrack acquired Milesplit.
This site has traffic estimates:
http://www.similarweb.com/Most high school traffic is someone looking up a result. You roll that traffic up and you can look bigger to advertisers.
Doesn't Milesplit put high school results behind a paywall? Having a free results site seems like a no brainer which is why I've always liked athletic.net.