It’s an exciting day in Bleacher Report history! Today is the official launch of the Bleacher Report Store powered by our friends at LIDS. We’re excited about this new experience we can bring to our B/R readers. Now you can read about your favorite teams and find the latest gear in the same place. We know how much you love your teams, and we think the store will provide you with another way to show your pride. You can check out the store anytime here: shop.bleacherreport.com
Bleacher Report is proud to be a game changer. That’s right, we’re teaming up with popchips and Tim Lincecum to give back to the San Francisco Bay Area community.
popchips’ game changers program asks fans to submit ideas on how Tim can give back to the community. Fans will then vote on the community project submissions, and Tim will select one local cause from the top five most popular ideas.
You can submit your ideas here by April 30. We couldn’t be more excited to be a part of such a good cause!
We’re proud to officially announce our partnership with the personalized news reading app Zite. As part of their new Zite Publisher Program, we will be providing personalized sports content to Zite users.
This partnership represents our core belief that sports fans should get the team coverage they care about it anywhere and however they want to. We’re excited to be one of the intial partners and looking forward to working with them.
You can check out Bleacher Report on Pulse here: http://www.pulse.me/bleacherreport
We’re excited to announce that we’ve created a brand new, optimized Bleacher Report experience for your iPad!
First up is Team Stream HD – our 5-star mobile app is now redesigned for the iPad and available in the App Store!
We’ve listened to what you love the most about Team Stream and given it some room to breathe on the iPad. Just like on your iPhone or Android, you can choose the teams and topics you care about and follow them in real time with:
- Hand-picked news and analysis from Bleacher Report, Twitter and many more sources across the web
- Push notifications for your teams’ breaking news as it happens
- A new personalized home screen experience with the latest from Bleacher Report and your teams.
We’ve laid out Team Stream to take advantage of the iPad’s extra real estate so you can tap and swipe your way through your teams, streams, and news.
A new BleacherReport.com experience for iPad- while we had our iPad developer hats on, we also created a brand-new article and slideshow design for iPad users visiting BleacherReport.com. We worked to make our articles and slideshows really captivating for the tablet, and we think you’ll enjoy the full-screen photos, seamless transition between stories, and ease of sharing and commenting.
And this is just the start!
We’ve not only gotten rave reviews of Team Stream but continue to see mobile traffic explode at Bleacher Report from 5% a year ago to over 30% today. As we begin 2012, we’ll continue to work on ways to help sports fans get even more out of these devices that they carry around with them during and between sporting events. Stay tuned — we could not be more excited.