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Today is a big day for our brands!🚀 First, our HockeyTDAY YouTube channel hit the 1,000-follower mark! Congrats to Ethan Zaretsky, Ben Wasserman, Aisling Smith, and Anabel Dennis for this great accomplishment.👊 Second, our BasketballTDAY YouTube channel hit the 100k follower mark, which is truly amazing! Austin Groft has been working insanely hard for a long time now and we could not be prouder. Silver play button coming soon! 👀 Make sure to subscribe to both channels, link in the comments, and for any brand inquiries please contact [email protected].

The WNBA will receive $2.2 billion in media rights revenue over the next 11 years (via The Athletic) This is about 4 times as much as previous deals, showing the rapid surge in the popularity of women’s sports and the WNBA. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is looking at $78 billion in the same package, which is almost locked in as the league currently awaits approval from the NBA board of governors. As the WNBA grows in popularity, new expansion teams have been announced. The Golden State Valkyries are set to launch in 2025 and will become the WNBA’s 13th team.In 2026, Toronto will host the WNBA’s 14th team, whose name is to be determined. Beyond these two additions, the WNBA’s Commissioner, Cathy Engelbert is hoping to add two more teams by 2028. Which is just in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The cities that Engelbert mentioned the WNBA is considering expanding into are as follows: Portland Philadelphia Denver Nashville South Florida The WNBA Expansion Project, by The Jersey Club, imagined what a 23-team league would look like in the future, with logo mockups as seen in this image. On July 18th, 2024, Front Office Sports announced that the league is expanding its regular season length from 40 to 44 games. Just five years ago, in 2019, the league held 34 games in the regular season each year. One thing to note is that the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) is still going to be operating in the red but is hoping to turn it around and reach profitability sometime in the near future. To pour even more gas on the first, New Balance is joining the action by locking in a multiyear partnership with the WNBA. At TDAY Sports, we have been investing in the growth of the WNBA since the spring of 2023, just a few months after our launch, as we believe in the current and potential of the WNBA. We have been regularly showcasing WNBA stories and moments on our social media, and we are excited about the continued growth of the league!

Ole Miss announced a partnership last week that will change the game for student athletes. And in this week’s newsletter… Justin Leusner, will be breaking down exactly what this partnership means for athletes. Plus… 📺Why long-form content is a must for anyone serious about building a personal brand. 📚And a quick glimpse into what’s been keeping Justin busy lately. Sign up in the comments below :)

We just launched a newsletter! This is something we’ve been working on hard behind the scenes, and I’m thrilled to bring this to you today… I bring to you the next step at TDAY…   Our founder and CEO, Justin Leusner, has released a weekly newsletter named: 📰 Tactical TDAY. And this week's edition is packed… ⚽ Messi’s latest move OFF the field… and why it’s a game-changer for athletes and creators 🏀 How Basketball TDAY smashed 17 million views in just 30 days 🚀 And Justin’s personal creator journey: the moment that changed everything Sign up below, before 3:30 pm ET to get it hand delivered to your inbox.

Big year ahead that starts now!

TDAY IS HIRING!🚀🤝 Want to join one of the fastest growing media companies in the world? Apply now: https://lnkd.in/esvv2C7P Applications are open until 11:59pm EST on August 5th, 2024! Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

In June, we made a MASSIVE Instagram change... We took our main TDAY Sports Instagram page which had over 600,000 followers to BestHoops and made BestHoops into TDAY Sports. Why did we do that? Because the page with 600,000 followers was hitting an international audience that only cared about basketball highlights. 1 month later, this change has played out GREAT! In the last month, the now TDAY Sports page has better engagement on a smaller follower account and the BestHoops page gets millions of views weekly! Shoutout to Christopher Reynolds, our head of Instagram content, for spearheading this change! Link in the comments to follow both pages!🤟

Day in the Life of our VP of Brand Partnerships! More Day in the Life videos coming soon...👀

We’re #Hiring! We are in need of Graphic Designers for our Hockey, Lacrosse, and Golf brands! If you or anyone you know would be a fit for this position, apply now!

Great tips here from our VP of Brand Partnerships. Shoutout Austin Groft for absolutely crushing it!!!