Bendigo Spirit on YouTube
The Bendigo Spirit are a WNBL team based in Bendigo, Victoria. There aren’t many videos featuring the team on Youtube. I’ve found a total of four uploaded by three people. Of these four videos, two were uploaded in June 2008 and two were uploaded in October 2009. Dates for video uploading thus appear random or likely coincide with the start and end of the WNBL season. The two June videos were uploaded by an account that was probably created by the team, where no one as logged into it in the past three months. The other two videos were uploaded by two different individuals. Both of those individuals were interested in Australian basketball: Luuuc who has a lot of NBL videos and bbax222 who has a lot of Australian national basketball team videos and WNBL related videos. The most views for a video was BENDIGO BANK SPIRIT: Kelly Wilson with 171 one views as of March 25, 2010. It was uploaded by bbax222.
Demographic data for these YouTube members is sparse. All that is really known is that all three are based in Australia. This contrasts a fair bit to some other Australian teams and social networks where people outside the country make up part of the community. This YouTube uploading community also accounts for the largest population of Bendigo Spirit fans I’ve found on the networks I’ve looked at so far: There is one account on MySpace and one account on bebo. (There are two fan pages for the team on Facebook. One has 165 members and the other has 83 members. I just count Facebook people based on the number of people listing a team as an interest, not based on fan page membership. And after looking at one of those pages, they do have an official Twitter account with 20 followers. Go follow the Bendigo Spirit on Twitter! Support women’s sport!)
Given that the biggest community of people appears to be on YouTube and that YouTube is the second biggest search engine out there, it would probably behoove the Spirit to go back to using YouTube more actively.
