Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

awesome....you can google! no way!

now think for a second why this whole discussion even began as to why Fox Sports would try to hire Dave Portnoy- who has an online media company that mops it up with the most coveted 18-34 online/social media/podcast addicted demographic that advertisers jizz in their pants over.....

just because some old dusty curmudgeon on an insanely obscure anonymous message board that maybe 50 people in the entire world use has never heard of Barstool or Dave Portnoy means exactly....jackshit. and it obviously goes without saying that just because one person has never heard of Barstool doesn't mean it is not hugely popular. there are plenty of things i and many on this board have never heard of that are massively popular.

Fox Sports is betting big on Portnoy and his Barstool/online following that he will attract more 18-34 viewers aka the most highly coveted and important demo for tv networks/advertisers in order to do what....generate more ad revenue and make more money for the parent company.

Once again, you take things far out of context.  Imagine that.  You said that Dave Portnoy, or DP for short, was the biggest media or whatever.  Just because I don't know much about them doesn't mean that I don't know who or what they are.  I know of them/him.  Him being "hugely popular" doesn't equate to being #1.  I don't even know what metric you'd use to gauge #1.  Followers?  Hits?  Does DP do NFL, College Sports, all of the above?  I don't really know.  I know they at least do College Sports, mostly click-bait type articles with no real insight or depth.  Kinda of like Saturday Down South and any other number of on-line sports media.  I don't even remember it being a thing a year or two ago, and with on-line media it could be gone just as quick.  Hell, Tik-Tok wasn't even a thing until ~2018....which was like yesterday.  

And Fox sports....is the worst.  I will watch them when I need to or have to, but Fox Sports getting in bed with DP means nothing to me.  

That'd still be ESPiN & Turner Sports your creativty with a narrative is almost to be admired.And Fox is still raking in over 10 Billion a year.Bleacher Report has 4.68 million YouTube subscribers.Barstool Sports has 1.88 million subscribers on their main ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

ESPN is a legacy cable network owned by a massive publicly traded company called Disney. Ever heard of them? Turner/TNT is....a legacy cable network owned by a massive publicly traded company called Warner Brothers. Ever heard of them? Bleacher Report coincidentally is also owned by Warner Brothers Discovery- and it is a decaying money pit for said company.

Barstool is an exclusively online sports media company (which is what I stated) and it's owned by one guy (Dave Portnoy) - it's not a legacy cable media channel owned by one of the most powerful publicly traded companies on planet earth like say...ESPN.

I take nothing out of context, genius. The discussion was started by Badge and I was responding to him- in context. And I said Barstool was the biggest online sports media company. Because newsflash: they are.

Have the Doc up your thorazine or try cleaning Portnoy's cack out of your eyes - no it isn't - not close.Are you to broke to pay attention?

ESPN: 13.9 million YouTube subscribers
Bleacher Report: 4.68 million YouTube subscribers
Barstool Sports: 1.89 million YouTube subscribers

https://www.businessinsider.com/espn-losing-social-media-audience-trump-facebook-instagram-jemele-hill-bleacher-report-barstool-2017-9

Gosh who to believe MDolt or Business Insider

"Just talk to a 54-year-old," says David Finocchio, co-founder, and CEO of Bleacher Report, the 10-year-old digital-media brand acquired by Time Warner for $170 million that has fast grown to 45 million unique visitors in the US, according to comScore. Bleacher reaches 250 million people each month overall thanks to its social footprint."Our social content is better because we have a more peer-to-peer voice," he said. "We connect with younger people like they're texting their friends, not like a classic media company shouting out.

"If a traditional media company uses terms like 'dope' or 'lit,' it comes across as condescending," he said. "They can't get away with it."

On the surface, ESPN's social-media presence does appear fairly lit. It has 33.5 million Twitter followers whereas Bleacher Report has 5 million and edgy upstart Barstool Sports has 900,000.