{"id":16811,"date":"2016-11-17T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/football-on-your-phone\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T04:00:23","slug":"football-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/football-on-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Football on your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Football League has long held the throne as America\u2019s favorite sport. Even with its dominance in television, 34 of the top 35 watched shows in America were NFL games, viewership has been slipping and the league has been looking for new ways to connect with young fans<sup>1<\/sup>. The answer may lie in using the internet of things and live streaming to reach fans who are no longer spending hours in front of their TV on Sundays<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peyton and Eli Manning Rap &quot;Football on Your Phone&quot; Music Video\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yhMZtMG46SE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The NFL has already started to take steps to move from the traditional television partnerships to reach their fans and expand the overall audience for their games. The NFL first experimented with streaming in 2015 with its partnership with Yahoo. \u201c\u2018The NFL has always been committed to being at the forefront of media innovation. Through this partnership with Yahoo &#8212; one of the world&#8217;s most recognizable digital brands &#8212; we are taking another important step in that direction as we continue to closely monitor the rapidly evolving digital media landscape,\u2019 said Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football League\u201d<sup>4<\/sup>. The Bills-Jaguar game in London was only available via Yahoo streaming and it was a huge success. The game attracted \u201c15.2 million unique users, nearly five times more than the previous record for a streaming audience, the 2014 World Cup match between Belgium and the American national team\u201d<sup>3<\/sup>. <sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Even more impressive, one third of the viewers were outside the US, showing that streaming can not only help the NFL connect with millennials, it can also bring in a new audience<sup>5<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the NFL is continuing to push the digital envelope by creating a partnership with Twitter for the Thursday Night Football games. Twitter will be live streaming the Thursday Night Football games for free to all viewers on their twitter accounts. \u201cThe league is using Thursday night games, which draw smaller audiences than the contests on Sundays and Mondays, to experiment with different kinds of media, distribution models and technologies. By the time the NFL&#8217;s biggest broadcast contracts expire in 2021, it will be prepared to sell a broad array of digital rights \u2014 and make more money\u201d<sup>6<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Customers want to be able to consume live games beyond a television set, but there are other ways the NFL can use this push to a digital world to create more value for sponsors, players, and fans alike. The league can to continue to create new content as the threshold for viewership becomes a lot lower in the digital streaming age. There are no longer large contracts that require large viewership to make it worth the money and time for the NFL and sponsors alike to offer the content. When testing this hypothesis \u201cpeople gravitated to the long-form content, the Netflix-style content, shows like\u00a0A Football Life, content that you lean back and watch\u201d<sup>7<\/sup>. Last month the NFL announced a partnership with Whistle Sports to develop and distribute this exciting new content across a broad range of social media platforms, providing another key touch point for our fans and sponsors to participate in NFL conversation online\u201d<sup>8<\/sup>. These new media outlets will also create new opportunities for sponsors to connect with customers.<\/p>\n<p>However, this digitalized world can offer more to fans than just streaming games and more video content. The league is using the internet of things by inputting RFID chips in the pads of players to track all their movements on the field<sup>9<\/sup>. These stats can help players learn on where they need to improve, help coaches make sure they\u2019re optimizing each player\u2019s practice and field time to make sure not to overwork players, and help making play calls based on data collected on the other team. This level of data is also gold for the growing base of diehard fantasy football fans who are always looking for new data on their favorite players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/nfl_tech_infographic-100612792-large.idge_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16810\" src=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/nfl_tech_infographic-100612792-large.idge_-75x300.jpg\" alt=\"nfl_tech_infographic-100612792-large-idge\" width=\"75\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/nfl_tech_infographic-100612792-large.idge_-75x300.jpg 75w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/nfl_tech_infographic-100612792-large.idge_-256x1024.jpg 256w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/nfl_tech_infographic-100612792-large.idge_-150x600.jpg 150w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/nfl_tech_infographic-100612792-large.idge_.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what is next? How can the NFL continue to reach its fans and find new revenue streams in an increasingly digital world? One way is to continue the push for big data to make the game not only more accessible but also safer. Why not put sensors in the helmets that can measure how hard of a hit a player takes? Instead of visual clues of concussion symptoms, we can use science to protect the players and the sanctity of the game. We can also use the digital streaming to connect fans from all over the world. Instead of streaming a game on yahoo, it could be Facebook so fans could live comment back and forth around the world watching the game together while being miles apart. The NFL should continue to use digital media and data to enhance the game for players and fans alike.<\/p>\n<p>(words: 788)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the NFL is digitizing itself to stay relevant for millennials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":16812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[298,92,1053,1857,335,147],"class_list":["post-16811","hck-submission","type-hck-submission","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-data","category-cellphone","category-football","category-nfl","category-smartphone","category-streaming"],"connected_submission_link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/assignment\/digitization-challenge-2016\/","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Football on your phone - Technology and Operations Management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/football-on-your-phone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Football on your phone - 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