Five reasons to get in the game with the #SportsTwitter community
When a live sports event is happening, there’s only one place that can keep up: Twitter.
Twitter is home to a passionate community of fans that come together to share their love of sports during the big plays, hot takes, and viral videos. With so many epic sporting moments to come in the months ahead, here’s five big advantages #SportsTwitter offers brands who are looking to connect with their audiences and build cultural relevance.
1. #SportsTwitter: a growing audience that can't get enough
The community of #SportsTwitter is alive and thriving. With 129 million unique authors and whopping 4.2 billion Tweets globally, the sports conversation growth has been steady with no signs of slowing down.1 Across more than 70 sporting events and leagues, we saw platform and user growth on Twitter including a 28% increase of Tweets and 29% increase of impressions in the past two years.2
Not only is the conversation booming, sports is endemic to Twitter. In fact, sports fans represent 42% of Twitter's audience, which is more than any other social platform.3
2. Real-time conversation at scale
#SportsTwitter is real-time conversation at scale, with breaking news that breaks the internet. When the #ScoringKing
3. Twitter augments the fan (and brand) experience
No matter the sport, we regularly partner with leagues and teams to enhance the fan experience on Twitter. During the 2022 Women’s Euro, we teamed up with @FreeLionesses – who are dedicated to supporting fans of the women’s game – to turn inspiring and positive Tweets by fans into #ShareYourRoar scarves! Fans and England players proudly raised their scarves, creating some truly memorable moments – on and off Twitter.
The loud (and proud) support for women in sports isn’t new to Twitter. The women’s football conversation grew 52% over the past 12 months, paving the way for the FIFA 2023 Women’s World Cup which is set to take place on July 20-Aug 20th, in Australia and New Zealand.5
4. Join conversations that drive outcomes
Brands on Twitter make the sports conversation richer. Relevance and creativity can really get people talking. In a recent Twitter survey into shopper behavior, three in four people said that conversations about products on Twitter resulted in them making a purchase.6
Talk on Twitter drives sales, and the brands Tweeting alongside fans during major sports moments are the ones winning the game.
5. Five tactics to win sports fans over
No matter your objective, we have new and enhanced solutions to help brands get in the game and drive results.
- Own the conversation by tapping into the power of Twitter Takeover suite. These products give you exclusive ownership of Twitter’s premium real estate across desktop and mobile, allowing you to maximize your reach and be front and center.
- Twitter Amplify is a powerful way for brands to align with the big sports moments and tap into #SportsTwitter’s passion for video. Twitter Amplify enables brands to run pre-roll video against official, brand safe content from the world’s leading publishers.
- Express your brand’s personality and make it a part of the conversation by adding fun, visually appealing features such as Custom Likes, Branded Hashtags and Branded Hashfetti.
- Drive fired-up fans through the funnel with live shopping.
- Meet fans in their home turf by using Twitter’s targeting capabilities like follower look-alikes targeting and event targeting. Find out more about Twitter Ads targeting tools here.
With so many epic sporting events to come, don’t leave your brand on the sidelines! Build a strategy with one of our Sales team members, and check out our 2023 Twitter marketing calendar for a deeper look at the upcoming events you can connect to.
The ball is on your court. Game on!
- Twitter Internal Data (Semantic Core). Tweets from February 21st, 2022 - February 21st, 2023.
- Twitter Internal Data (Semantic Core). Tweets from February 21st, 2021 - February 21st, 2023. Global. Events/Leagues: AFF Championship, ATP Cup, Australian Open, BBC Sports Personality of the Year, BWF Tournaments, Badminton Asia Championships, Ballon d'Or, Boston Marathon, CAF Awards, CONCACAF Gold Cup, Commonwealth Games, Copa América, Davis Cup, Denmark Open, EuroLeague Final Four, European Athletics Championships, FIBA Asia Cup, FIBA European Basketball Championship Men, FIBA European Basketball Championship Women, FIBA Men's Basketball World Cup, FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, FIFA Men's World Cup, FIFA Women's World Cup, French Open, French Open (Badminton), Hylo Open, Indonesia Masters, Invictus Games, Istanbul Marathon, Japanese Hih School Baseball Championship, Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament, London Marathon, MLB Draft, MLB World Series, Mediterranean Games, Men's March Madness, Men's Tour de France, Miami Open, NBA All-Star Weekend, NBA Draft, NBA Finals, NFL Draft, NFL London Games, NFL Mexico Games, NFL Munich Games, NHL Draft, National Signing Day, New York City Marathon, Olympics, Paralympics, Pekan Olahraga Nasional, Royal Ascot, Ryder Cup, SEA Games, Stanley Cup, State of Origin, Sudirman Cup, Sumo Nagoya Basho, Sumo Summer Basho, Super Bowl, The Grand National, The Masters, The Open Championship, Thomas & Uber Cup, Tour of Antalya, Tour of Britain, Triple Crown Horse Racing, Trophées UNFP du football, U.S. Open Golf, U.S. Open Tennis, UEFA Champions League Final, UEFA European Championship, Volleyball Women's World Championship, WWE Royal Rumble, Wimbledon, Women's British Open, Women's March Madness, Women's Tour de France, World Athletics Championships, Wrestlemania.
- Global Web Index. Waves Q1 2022 - Q4 2022. Global. Question: Message: How often do you visit or use these services? Audience: Interest in “Watching Sports.”
- Twitter Internal Data (Semantic Core). Oct. 18th, 2022 - Feb 7th, 2023. US Only.
- Twitter Internal Data (Semantic Core). Women’s Football Tweets from Feb 2022 - Feb 2023. GL Only.
- Twitter Shopper Behavior Survey, Sept 2021.