The Townsville Fire are a WNBL team. Like the Bendigo Spirit, there is a small community of people who have uploaded videos featuring the team on YouTube. Both have three people who have uploaded a total of four videos. There is one person in common between the two groups: bbax222. The other two people are timtufuga and Ambalina1989. timtufuga has uploaded a number of videos featuring WNBL teams. Ambalina1989 has not. Three of these videos were posted during 2009/2010 season: 1 in October, 1 in November and 1 in December. The last video was uploaded in March 2008 and features the team’s dance squad. The four videos that were uploaded have had very few views. The most watched video is TOWNSVILLE McCAFE FIRE: Rachael Flanagan (interviewed by Jes ) and it has 60 less views than the most popular Bendigo Bombers video. So far, people just don’t seem to be keen on watching or uploading WNBL videos to YouTube.
The YouTube community again appears to be one of the biggest outside of Facebook. (Bebo has two people who list them as an interest.) The Facebook community size is again not based on people listing the team as an interest (important if you are a team and wanting to direct advertising at them) and is instead based on group and fanpage size.
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After I finished with my Yahoo!Groups look at the WNBL, I decided to look at the WNBL on other services. They included LiveJournal, bebo, orkut, blogger, Facebook, Dreamwidth Studios, InsaneJournal, Crazylife, scribbled, JournalFen, blurty, and DeadJournal. Only LiveJournal and bebo had people listing a WNBL team as an interest. Some of these teams have corporate names and possibly spelling variations. We tried to use those variations to make sure that everyone who included them as an interest was included. With the Australian Institute of Sports WNBL team, it is possible that some individuals aren’t interested in the team but rather the Institute itself. (Which is pretty cool based.) The following table was produced when the search was completed:
WNBL fans on bebo and LiveJournal
| Service |
Team |
Username |
Last updated |
Gender |
Age |
Year of Birth |
City |
State |
Country |
|
| bebo |
Adelaide Lightning |
Olivia Smith |
|
Female |
31 |
|
Adelaide |
South Australia |
Australia |
|
| LiveJournal |
Adelaide Lightning |
t2incorporated |
171 weeks ago |
|
|
1988 |
Brisbane |
Queensland |
Australia |
|
| LiveJournal |
Adelaide Lightning |
abster7 |
265 weeks ago |
|
|
|
Adelaide |
South Australia |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Australian Institute of Sport |
Rayno Ellis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Australian Institute of Sport |
Chris Roper |
|
Male |
22 |
|
Sydney |
New South Wales |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Australian Institute of Sport |
Blair H |
|
Male |
21 |
|
Bendigo |
Victoria |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Australian Institute of Sport |
Sam Pickett |
|
Male |
25 |
|
Noosa |
Queensland |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Australian Institute of Sport |
Lieke Schaap |
|
Female |
18 |
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Australian Institute of Sport |
Daniel Walker |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Australian Institute of Sport |
Ben Hall |
|
Male |
25 |
|
Adelaide |
South Australia |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Australian Institute of Sport |
Lauren Jackson |
|
Female |
28 |
|
Albury |
New South Wales |
Australia |
|
| LiveJournal |
Australian Institute of Sport |
erg_grrl |
183 weeks ago |
|
|
|
Los Gatos |
California |
United States |
|
| LiveJournal |
Australian Institute of Sport |
x_roxysnow82_x |
282 weeks ago |
|
|
|
Dundee |
Illinois |
United States |
|
| bebo |
Bendigo Spirit |
Lisa Clark |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Canberra Capitals |
Lauren Jackson |
|
Female |
28 |
|
Albury |
New South Wales |
Australia |
|
| LiveJournal |
Canberra Capitals |
beloved_zara |
1 week ago |
|
|
|
|
|
Australia |
|
| LiveJournal |
Canberra Capitals |
amyfoxyfox |
2 weeks ago |
|
|
1990 |
|
|
|
|
| LiveJournal |
Canberra Capitals |
the_seether_is |
130 weeks ago |
|
|
1984 |
Brisbane |
Queensland |
Australia |
|
| LiveJournal |
Canberra Capitals |
kristenvealfan |
176 weeks ago |
|
|
1982 |
Canberra |
Australian Capital Territory |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Dandenong Jayco Rangers |
Vanessa Lacey |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Dandenong Jayco Rangers |
J-E-S-S |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Logan Thunder |
Loganthunderisda |
|
Male |
|
|
Logan |
Victoria |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Logan Thunder |
Logan Thunder - Mens DLeague |
|
Male |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Logan Thunder |
Laura Mc Dermott |
|
Female |
22 |
|
Lismore |
New South Wales |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Logan Thunder |
Patty |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Logan Thunder |
Scotty |
|
Male |
|
|
Logan |
Victoria |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Logan Thunder |
Emmyy |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Logan Thunder |
Leisa C |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| bebo |
Perth Lynx |
Tash Nichols |
|
Female |
18 |
|
Perth |
Western Australia |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Perth Lynx |
Liam Dunn Kellock |
|
Male |
|
|
Perth |
Western Australia |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Sydney Uni Flames |
Vlad Alava |
|
Male |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| LiveJournal |
Sydney Uni Flames |
lelak |
8 weeks ago |
|
|
1975 |
Sydney |
New South Wales |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Townsville Fire |
Rebecca |
|
Female |
20 |
|
Townsville |
Queensland |
Australia |
|
| bebo |
Townsville Fire |
Reece Dowleans |
|
Male |
21 |
|
Townsville |
Queensland |
Australia |
|
The places were then put on a map. The only hiccup was Noosa, Queensland. It was skipped. The United States was also left off because it seemed likely that those fans were not fans of the team, but rather the Institute itself. The map seems to reinforce the idea from earlier posts that Australian sports teams largely come out of a regional fan base.
Regarding Facebook, I did check them using their advertising data that pulls from people’s interest lists. There were none. In fact, no one even listed the WNBL as an interest on Facebook. There may be a number of Fan pages and groups on Facebook dedicated to these teams but this doesn’t look at them, just like when doing interest based research, I don’t look at LiveJournal or bebo groups.
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