Greenfly for Sports
How Leagues and Teams Engage Digital-First Fans
Digital media now drives sports fan engagement. Leagues, teams and sports associations have an opportunity to leverage their digital media inventory by distributing it to their most influential promotional partners and influencers—athletes, sponsors, and broadcasters—to share with fans.
Moving mountains of media in real-time is no small task. See why Greenfly’s automated digital media distribution software powers revenue-generating programs for leagues, teams & competitions around the world.
See why over 30 leagues and 500 teams use Greenfly software
Athlete Social Distribution
Harness the brand-building endorsement of your most powerful influencers and share short-form media with athletes & players. Give them curated media galleries with personalized highlights to post on their personal social accounts — before they leave the locker room. Automate the distribution of individual photo & video galleries to every player and help them build their personal brand – and at the same time they’ll help build yours.
- Ensure quality game and training assets are always available on mobile phones
- Strengthen relationships with all of the athletes on your roster.
Don’t just ask them for media appearances, give them something valuable in return.
Major League Baseball: Athlete Social program
92% of TBT basketball players use Greenfly.
Collect Matchday Content
Gather short-form digital media on game day, and organize and distribute it in real time to your social media team, sponsors and broadcasters — as an add-on to their linear media rights. With a game-day content program, quickly collect sourced media from embedded photographers and live content creators, and even licensed media from Getty Images to distribute to everyone who will help with digital promotion.
- Teams: Provide matchday media to content teams to post on social media and provide to their players and sponsors.
- Broadcasters: Syndicate social media to rights-holders alongside broadcast media to engage younger audiences.
- Sponsors: Increase sponsorship value by delivering media they can use for their own promotions.
Bundesliga: Matchday Content program
Digital Media Drives New Sports Revenue
Download this free PDF to discover how engaging fans through digital media distribution can directly drive merchandise, sponsor and broadcaster revenue.
Digital Sponsor Activation
Demonstrate your digital fanbase’s power to increase sponsor value as digital channels replace experiential exposure. Provide sponsors short-form media showcasing their brand logos for re-use in their marketing. Include the impressions and engagements sponsors gain across athlete, broadcaster and superfan social pages — not just official brand channels.
- Extend sponsor exposure well beyond match day.
- Leverage the reach and influence of your advocates to meet sponsorship commitments.
- Improve and expand relationships with your most valuable sources of revenue.
Premier Lacrosse League: Sponsor Activation program
By using Greenfly +Engage, we’ve already collected thousands of photos and videos with just a single Twitter post. We’re thrilled to share those incredible reactions and celebrations with our fans!
Caroline Morgan
Vice President of Digital Strategy
Los Angeles Dodgers
Fan Engagement Campaigns
Activate fans to create and submit photos and videos for use on your owned social or other digital channels. Integrate a branded microsite into your website or mobile app to provide instructions and collect media that you can easily organize and review. Easily pull together dozens or thousands of submissions to create videos and commercial ads.
- Give fans an easy way to participate in and commemorate big franchise moments.
- Build a library of original content.
- Get full transfer of intellectual property rights on submitted media.
Los Angeles Dodgers: Fan UGC Campaign
The Greenfly app has meant that I always have a great selection of images and videos customized for me and available immediately after my matches and training sessions, which I can post to my social media channels whenever I choose.
Ivana Andrés
Real Madrid Feminino
Shout-out to Greenfly!
It allows us to share all our great content with one stroke.
Thomas Dziagwa
Basketball Player for TBT &
Oklahoma State University
Athlete Content Co-Creation
Bring your fans closer to your brand by letting them hear directly from their favorite athletes and coaches. Give fans ‘direct access’ by remotely directing these advocates to create videos or take photos with a self-guided media brief for filming, including instructions, a script and a teleprompter.
- Create meaningful, purpose-driven media with your most ardent supporters.
- Harness the power of their original stories to drive sports fan engagement.
- Maintain intellectual property rights on all media.
Rajasthan Royals: Remote Content Creation
