Sailing Properties on Facebook – The Top 10s
Top 10 Sailing Properties on Facebook.
By Likes, Growth %, Growth Actual, Engagement % and Engagement Actual.
In addition to our Top 50 Sailing Brands on Facebook Chart – we are now offering the Top 10 for a variety of measures. This page contains 5 different Top 10 lists for different metrics.
The Top 10 Lists for September 3, 2012.
Last Updated – 1 March 2013.
Notes
- Engagement is the number of people ‘talking about’ a page divided by the number of likes.
- We now monitor 85 yacht racing & sailing properties including all America’s Cup Teams.
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- Sperry Topsider. Some believe that Sperry has no place in this list, and that if we include them, then we should also include Volvo Cars, PUMA and other sponsors who have sailing content on their Facebook page and a lot more followers. The difference between Sperry and Volvo is that the shoes are worn during competition and a car isn’t.
- Jessica Watson. We added Jessica on December 1 as she has announced she will compete in the Sydney Hobart race. This list is not a proxy for popularity – it is a proxy for investment in and engagement with social media. Having said that, there are individuals who do think social media is important who haven’t captured the Facebook generation’s imagination the way Jessica has. At the time of writing, Abby Sunderland had around 22,000 likes, however, Jessica’s continued involvement in competitive sailing is the reason we have included her and not Abby.
- Windsurfing. We also added several windsurfing properties to the list in December 2011. Both the International Olympic Commission (IOC) and the world governing body of sailing (ISAF) see windsurfing as part of competitive sailing. One of the reasons to add windsurfing brands into the list is to give ‘traditional’ sailing properties some perspective – so that they think a little bit outside of the box.
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