SB Nation (an abbreviation for their full name SportsBlogs Nation) is a sports blogging network owned by Vox Media. It was co-founded by Tyler Bleszinski, Markos Moulitsas, and Jerome Armstrong in 2003. The blog from which the network formed was started by Bleszinski as Athletics Nation in 2003, and focused solely on the Oakland Athletics. It has since expanded to cover sports franchises on a national scale, including all Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, and National Football League teams, as well as college teams, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, totaling over 300 community sites. In 2011, the network expanded into technology content with The Verge, leading to the parent company Sports Blogs Inc. being rebranded as Vox Media. SB Nation operates from Vox Media's offices in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Corporate affairs and business model
From 2003 to 2011, the sports blog network SB Nation (originally known as SportsBlogs Nation) operated under the parent company SportsBlogs Inc., which was headquartered in Washington, D.C.[1][2] Since Sports Blogs was rebranded as Vox Media, the network has also operated from the digital media company's offices in Manhattan.[3]
Many contributors to SB Nation work as part-time contractors,[6] and are paid a stipend each month.[1] The network generates revenue through advertising.[6]
History
SB Nation was co-founded by friends Tyler Bleszinski and Markos Moulitsas in 2003. The single blog from which the network formed was launched by Bleszinski as Athletics Nation in July 2003, and covered only the Oakland Athletics baseball team.[3]Athletics Nation quickly became Blogads's second largest website, following Daily Kos, where Moulitsas served as an editor.[4] Following the blog network's creation, six additional writers were hired to join Bleszinski in creating content, and Daily Kos' platform was implemented to encourage online community growth.[4] Established bloggers were selected to contribute articles, and sports fans could leave comments. After sites were created for all Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), and National Hockey League (NHL) franchises, along with some college and other teams, Bleszinski focused on company growth and making money.[4]
In 2008, SB Nation raised $5 million in a Series A round of financing with Accel Partners, Allen & Company, and Ted Leonsis contributing.[7] Jim Bankoff, who was advising the company during the venture round, became SB Nation's CEO in January 2009.[1][4] The network had approximately 1 million unique users, 5 million unique users, and nearly 185 blogs by February.[7][6] The NHL sanctioned and began linking to SB Nation content on its official website in April, when the network was averaging 5 million unique monthly visitors across nearly 200 sites.[7] In July, Comcast's venture capital branch, Comcast Interactive Capital, spearheaded a nearly $8 million second round of financing.[4][8] In September 2009, SB Nation was re-launched to serve as a nationally focused portal for the network's blogs.[4] Revenue generated by the network increased by four times in 2009.[1]
In 2010, the network launched 20 regional sites, bringing the total number of sites to nearly 275. SB Nation had 31 full-time employees and was receiving 40 million monthly page views by approximately 8 million unique users, as of mid 2010.[1]Comcast SportsNet and SB Nation agreed to a content sharing partnership in shared markets in June 2010.[8] In November, Khosla Ventures led a third round of funding for SB Nation.[2] The $10.5 million received brought the company's total funding to approximately $23 million.[6]SB Nation acquired the blog networks FanTake and The Offside in March 2011, expanding its coverage of college sports and soccer, respectively.[9] The network hired several Engadget employees to launch its first major expansion outside sports.[2][4]SB Nation's parent company, SportsBlogs Inc., rebranded as Vox Media in October 2011 and The Verge launched in November 2011.[10][4][2] In late 2011, MMAFighting.com was integrated into SB Nation after Vox Media acquired the mixed martial arts site from AOL.[11] MMA Fighting produces The MMA Hour and The MMA Beat, which continue to stream on SB Nation and social media outlets, as of 2017.[12][13]
In September 2012, SB Nation introduced a major redesign codenamed "SB United", which introduced a new "magazine-style" layout with a larger focus on long-form content and digital media, and redesigned logos for each of the network's approximately 300 blogs. The redesign was overseen by Spencer Hall, the site's first editorial director.[14] The LGBT sports website Outsports was acquired by Vox Media and integrated into SB Nation in March 2013.[15] The site's founders retained editorial control, and the purchase marked the first time a major sports media company acquired an LGBT-focused website.[16]SB Nation was averaging approximately 50 million unique visitors by mid 2013,[3][17] and had approximately 800 contributing bloggers by the end of the year.[18]
Elena Bergeron was named SB Nation's editor-in-chief in 2017.[5] In mid 2017, the sports and culture website The Ringer transferred its publishing platform from Medium to Vox Media's Chorus platform. The site's founder, Bill Simmons, retained ownership and editorial control.[19][20]The Ringer's parent company, Bill Simmons Media Group, and Vox Media agreed to share revenue generated by advertisements sold by Vox Media.[21][22] Vox Media began sharing audience traffic between SB Nation and The Ringer.[23] In February 2018, Vox Media laid off 50 employees, including some members of the SB Nation social video team.[24]
In August 2019, after closing its national college football blog Every Day Should Be Saturday (which joined the platform in 2010 after originally being established in 2005 as an independent website), SB Nation announced a new college football vertical known as Banner Society, which will aim to " keep expanding, warping, and sharpening the conversation around college football in all its bizarre, corrupt, colorful elements", and "find new and different ways to connect with our audience directly, all over the internet".[25][26]
In December 2019, Vox Media announced that in order to comply with California Assembly Bill 5, SB Nation would "end our contracts with most contractors at California brands" over the coming months, and transfer their roles to a new group of employees. The company stated that this would be an extension of investments that have seen more full-time employees working for the network's largest sites, and that former contractors would be able to contribute as unpaid "community insiders".[27]
On April 17, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vox Media announced it would furlough 9% of its workforce starting May 1, 2020, including SB Nation.[28]
In March 2024, Vox Media divested Outsports to LGBT-oriented publisher Q Digital, with the site's co-founders receiving an equity stake in the company.[29] In April 2024, Vox Media shut down the website's podcast network.[30]
Sites operated by SB Nation
SB Nation is made up of over 200 websites called “communities” that cover the major sports leagues including all of the NFL teams, and select communities for NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, UFC, Formula 1, WWE, PGA, and college sports.[31] The coverage style of SB Nation’s communities have an emphasis on covering sports from the perspective of fans.[32] SB Nation also operates a site dedicated to sports gambling in conjunction with DraftKings Sportsbook called DK Network.[33]
NFL Communities
SB Nation has 32 community websites dedicated to the fans of each NFL team.[34] The NFL communities cover game previews and recaps, analysis, breaking news, and player profiles.
SB Nation’s NFL community sites encourage their readers to contribute to the discussions on the site and interact with each other as they have a “ground up, grass-roots, instead of top-down” style of covering sports. SB Nation’s NFL community sites encourage their readers to contribute to discussions on the sites.[35] Many of the communities were launched in the mid-2000s, either from scratch or incorporating existing fan sites for each team into the SB Nation company profile.
SB Nation’s NFL producers also produce podcasts covering each team and are featured in other sports media podcasts, radio and in NFL news articles.[36][37]
In May 2016, SB Nation created an online video series for NBC Sports around NBC Sunday Night Football.[38] The network expanded into radio programming in mid-2016 through a partnership with Gow Media.[39]SB Nation sold its first original television program, Foul Play, to Verizon Communications'go90, in September. The network was averaging approximately 70 million unique monthly visitors at this time.[40]Foul Play premiered in May 2018.[41]
SB Nation also maintains a YouTube channel which publishes regular web series by a variety of online hosts and content editors including Jon Bois, Will Buikema, Ryan Simmons, Seth Rosenthal, Kofie Yeboah, Mike Imhoff, Clara Morris and many others. The series produced on the channel include:
Dorktown, which focuses on telling obscure sports stories.
Chart Party, in which specific statistical data in sports is examined.
Collapse, a series which charts the decline of various successful franchises and teams.
The Worst, a series about the worst sporting contests and performances of all time, both by teams and by individuals (whether in competitiveness, quality of play, or other factors).
Rewinder, in which the background and context of memorable sporting moments is explored.
Beef History, a series dedicated to high-profile interpersonal rivalries between athletes, coaches, managers, and teams.
Weird Rules, a series examining odd rules in sports, as well as their origin and application.
Fumble Dimension, a series in which the presenters attempt to create strange and comical scenarios in sports video games.
Untitled, a series exploring how various athletes considered great in their sport failed to win a major title/championship in their playing career.
Prism, a series about athletes, coaches, and managers whose public perception shifted greatly during/after their sporting career.
Most Virtual Player, a wide-reaching series centred on athletes, either real or fictional, in video games.
Alongside these ongoing series, the channel has also published a number of multi-episode sports documentaries.
In August 2020, SB Nation's YouTube channel was renamed to Secret Base.[44][45]
Holtzclaw controversy
In February 2016, the site published a lengthy profile of Daniel Holtzclaw, a former police officer convicted of multiple accounts of rape and other charges, focusing on his college football career. The piece, which was seen as sympathetic to Holtzclaw, was heavily criticized and was taken down within hours of publication. SB Nation's editorial director Spencer Hall apologized for "a complete breakdown" of SB Nation's editorial process, and described the story and its publication as a "complete failure" of site standards.[46][47][48]SB Nation subsequently cut ties with the story's author, freelance journalist Jeff Arnold, and put its longform program on hiatus pending a peer review of the editorial process that led to the Holtzclaw piece being published.[49] The head of the longform program, veteran sportswriter Glenn Stout, was suspended and later fired.[50]
In May 2016, Vox Media published the results of the peer review. It found that the longform program was isolated from the rest of SB Nation in a way that made it impossible for stories to be properly vetted. It also harshly criticized SB Nation for not giving individual editors the authority to review stories about sensitive topics. At the time, sensitive stories were reviewed by the newsroom's two most senior women, senior editor Elena Bergeron and senior content producer Sarah Kogod. The reviewers found that this practice made it appear that an individual editor did not have the responsibility to "care to the fullest extent about matters of ethics, integrity, and accuracy." It also raised concerns about the lack of diversity in the newsroom.[51] Based on the review, SB Nation permanently shelved the longform program, replacing it with a features program. SB Nation also announced it would take steps to diversify its newsroom. In a statement, SB Nation said that the Holtzclaw situation revealed that "an organization cannot afford to wait to be diverse, particularly if that organization is one that wants to tell stories."[52]
Recognition
In 2011, Time included SB Nation in their list of "50 Websites That Make the Web Great".[53]SB Nation was a finalist in the seventh annual Shorty Awards' "fansite" category (2015),[54][55] and received a National Magazine Award (or Ellie Award) in the "Digital Innovation" category in 2018 as the publisher of Jon Bois' narrative, 17776.[56][57] A sequel to 17776, 20020, was released in September–October 2020, with a third edition, 20021, was set to be released in 2021, but as of 2022 has no set date of release.
Letterboxd named Jon Bois' and Alex Rubenstein's collaborative documentary on the history of the Seattle Mariners the highest rated documentary miniseries of 2020,[58] and The New York Times listed its first episode, "This is not an endorsement of arson", as one of the best episodes of TV of 2020.[59]
^Poniewozik, James; Hale, Mike; Lyons, Margaret (December 17, 2020). "The Best TV Episodes of 2020". The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
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