Chris McCoy
entrepreneurship at the intersection of sports media and the social graph
Sports is the ultimate, real-life social network. I'm trying to bring it online.
I'm the Founder at YourSports. We're creating the sports graph--a social network for local sports.
Our first release is Plays, an iOS app that democratizes live play-by-coverage of any football game entirely into Twitter. We've taken play creation on your phone from 30 seconds down to 3: http://bit.ly/rsSo1C
Here's a bit of my journey.
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My Answer on Quora to: What are some $1B+ markets ripe for disruption?
What are some $1B+ markets ripe for disruption?
Chris McCoy, helping pioneering crowdfunding ...
Sports media rights (sports broadcasting).
It's a $9B industry here in the U.S. $26B worldwide. Yet 99.99% of the games played around the world still aren't legally broadcast. Anywhere. On TV. Mobile. Web. You name it.YouTube and live streaming co's don't count--they're effectively stealing a property's media rights.
Fans miss lots of games. Teams and leagues miss out on much-needed revenues.ESPN, Fox Sports Net, Comcast SportsNet, Sky--they're all prime for disruption. Industry needs a new business model first. Ads and PPV aren't profit centers. Without audience guarantees, how does a network know which games to produce and sell brand ads against? They don't. Same goes for the PPV model.I'm working on trying to change this.
