Flo Sports

[WUPHF]

In this just posted 25 minute ODAC Podcast, most of the final nine minutes (and a few seconds) is devoted to the conference's partnership with FloSports.

Thanks for sharing! The podcast illustrates the points that have fascinated me from the beginning, the promise of the promotion of the athletes...

I have wasted more time than I care to admit, looking for evidence of this on Twitter and YouTube and I am surprised how little content Flo Sports is providing.  Maybe the content is on other platforms or is also behind the paywall (I still need to subscribe), but that makes no sense if the goal is the promotion of the athletes.

This podcast is interesting in that they also suggest that the Flo Sports platform will diversity the viewership.  That is to, fans from other colleges and universities that subscribe to Flo may watch other contests because they are in the Flo ecosystem.  I do not buy that...  Please correct me if that is not what they were saying.

[Ralph Turner]

That is to, fans from other colleges and universities that subscribe to Flo may watch other contests because they are in the Flo ecosystem.  I do not buy that...  Please correct me if that is not what they were saying.

I agree.  FLO Sports won't change my viewing habits favorably for D3.

[y_jack_lok]

In this just posted 25 minute ODAC Podcast, most of the final nine minutes (and a few seconds) is devoted to the conference's partnership with FloSports.

Thanks for sharing! The podcast illustrates the points that have fascinated me from the beginning, the promise of the promotion of the athletes...

I have wasted more time than I care to admit, looking for evidence of this on Twitter and YouTube and I am surprised how little content Flo Sports is providing.  Maybe the content is on other platforms or is also behind the paywall (I still need to subscribe), but that makes no sense if the goal is the promotion of the athletes.

This podcast is interesting in that they also suggest that the Flo Sports platform will diversity the viewership.  That is to, fans from other colleges and universities that subscribe to Flo may watch other contests because they are in the Flo ecosystem.  I do not buy that...  Please correct me if that is not what they were saying.

That sounded to me like what they were saying. I don't buy it, either.

I will say, though, that I decided to give Flo an early tryout, so on Thursday I watched part if the first half of a D1 women's soccer game. The home team, Stony Brook (Long Island, NY), plays in the CAA (C is for Coastal). Not sure what conference the other team -- UMass Lowell -- plays in. Anyway, it was just a basic broadcast, like hundreds of D3 games I've watched. The announcers were fine, but there was nothing special about the camera work. Since it was soccer, there were no timeouts (one water break due to heat) so no ads, no athlete profiles, etc. I didn't watch halftime, so maybe they had some special content then. Also, the game was on a multi-purpse field (football, soccer, maybe field hockey) in a nice stadium, though not huge. The game was very sparsely attended.

[Ron Boerger]

UM-Lowell is a member of America East, a non-football D1 conference.