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thumb Whistle Sports Network is a media company that focuses on providing sports content for millennials from over 300 YouTube channels. The company provides support and resources to these video creators, as well as creates their own content.〔 Whistle Sports is a YouTube certified broadcaster.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/13/whistle-sports-series-b/ )〕 Since its launch in 2014, Whistle Sports has raised more than $36 million in funding to date. It raised $8 million in 2014〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/13/whistle-sports/ )〕 mostly from Sky Broadcasting.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/british-broadcaster-sky-invests-7-million-in-youtube-video-network-whistle-sports/ )〕 and $28 million in a second round in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://recode.net/2015/01/13/whistle-sports-video-network-is-not-espn-and-its-raised-28-million/ )〕 In the summer of 2014, Whistle Sports launched an Xbox app.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/15/xbox-ones-getting-a-new-sports-network-aimed-at-low-attention-span-gamers/ )〕 In September, National Basketball Association (NBA) player Jeremy Lin became a content partner with Whistle Sports, adding his YouTube channel with roughly 400,000 subscribers in exchange for an undisclosed equity stake. He was the first athlete from one of the four major sports leagues in the United States to produce content for the platform. By the end of 2014, Whistle Sports subscribers and social media followers were: YouTube (8 million subscribers), Facebook (9.3 million fans), Twitter (1.3 million followers), Instagram (2.5 million followers), and Vine (2.2 million followers).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://whistlesports.com/ )〕 Now, Whistle Sports has 130 million YouTube subscribers as of November 2015. In addition, the company has had partnerships with Nickelodeon with "Top Ten Trick Shots," Sky Sports, Verizon for Go90 and Wilson for their #MyWilson campaign. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whistle Sports Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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