Creating Sports

A young creator you should keep an eye on? Miles du Bois. The Division III rising junior lacrosse player at the Stevens Institute of Technology is only midway through college yet has already carved out an impressive yet steadily growing following across YouTube (19K subscribers), TikTok (15K followers) and Instagram (11K followers). I recently spoke with Du Bois about… - How he got into vlogging - Why the lacrosse community’s closeness has benefitted him - His recent YouTube optimization learnings - How his revenue channels stack up …and much more! Please check this out, and subscribe if you haven’t yet!

Not one, not two, not three... We have reached four weeks of publishing Creating Sports, and we're just getting started! Today, we're back with the biggest news in the Sports x Creator world: - The National Basketball Association (NBA) is bringing back the Creator Cup, and this time it has a sponsor (Hennessy) - The National Football League (NFL) welcomed Jenna Bandy to its HQ to teach current star players about social media - Nuggets within on SEC Shorts, Jomboy Media, Bally Sports, Pro Football Network, Theo Ash, FOX Sports, Ilona Maher, Medalist Skin, Liam Holland and NBC Sports If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so!

The NCAA changed its rules. Cayden Henschel changed his life. It’s that simple. Less than a decade ago, the NCAA effectively forced Ryan Trahan and Deestroying to make an impossible decision: Be a college athlete or a creator? Henschel, a standout wrestler at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with over a million followers across social media platforms, nearly had to make a similar choice. But in the summer of 2021, the NCAA finally got rid of its archaic rules. It moved to allow athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness. For Henschel who was a year into school, this changed everything. He had begun college unsure how he would afford tuition and unable to buy a car. Today, because of his earnings as a wrestling creator, Henschel has… - Paid off his entire college tuition - Paid off his car - No debt - Started saving for retirement In 2023, he cleared six figures as a wrestling creator for the first time. Upon graduation next year, he will go full-time as a creator. Want to know the full Cayden Henschel story? He exclusively spoke with Creating Sports about his journey and strategies, and you can read it all today: https://lnkd.in/gUKz8biZ

The latest in Sports x Creators: - NBCUniversal teamed up with Meta, Overtime, Snap Inc., TikTok and YouTube to send 27 creators to Paris for the Olympics - Good Good Golf hosts the Midwest Open - Much more on Bryson DeChambeau, Madden 25, Oshae Brissett, The Umpire Channel, Deestroying and more. Subscribe so you don't miss anything!

The biggest possible win for a creator isn’t always going full-time online. Just ask Max Fries. The recent graduate from Earlham College grew his TikTok following to six figures while starring on his Division-III baseball team. The online notoriety has landed him brand deals, making him some nice side-hustle cash. But the real win came in the form of the Savannah Bananas. Fries began the year riding a unicycle everyday trying to get the Bananas attention. Today he’s in Savannah playing six games for the Bananas developmental team, The Visitors, with the hope of sticking around for the long haul. Don’t miss the full story (and don’t forget to subscribe!) #creators #contentcreators #influencers #SavannahBananas #baseball #TikTok

Today, Megan Rembielak – known by the internet as “MegRem Softball – is perhaps the?internet’s top softball instruction creator. Nearly 500K followers. A booming clinic business. Long-term brand partnerships with BRUCE BOLT, John Valle's Valle Sporting Goods, and Tanner Tees. A new training membership so popular that she needed a brand-new website to meet demand. But four years ago, Rembielak didn’t have any softball social media channels. She only started her creator journey because everyone was at home due to the pandemic and, as her husband suggested, it might be a way to make a “couple extra bucks.” Turns out, it was more than a couple bucks… “I never in my wildest dreams thought this would be my full-time job, literally,” Rembielak tells me. Learn the full story of Rembielak’s journey, with exclusive insight into her business, in the newest edition of Creating Sports: https://lnkd.in/gifaPjXj

The latest in Sports x Creators dropped this morning: - The NFL's reigning Fan of the Year, Tom Grossi, has topped $1M in money raised for charity as a creator - PepsiCo's Gatorade selected four creators – Emily Harrigan, Anthony Hamilton Jr, Crissa Jackson and AJ Greene – to promote its collection with Eric Emanuel - How Electronic Arts (EA) has tapped into creators, including one of its cover stars, to reach the younger audiences who didn't grow up playing the NCAA football games Much more inside, so check it out (and join those who have subscribed)! https://lnkd.in/gA9h_qPN

Sports x Creators Hello and welcome to Creating Sports, the only newsletter exclusively focused on creators in sports. The sports media landscape has splintered over the years with creators continuing to come further into focus. Creating Sports will pick up those pieces and put together twice-a-week newsletters that inform, educate and entertain. Beginning next week, we'll be coming to you twice a week – first on Tuesdays with a recap of the week's biggest news in the sports creator world, and then on Thursdays with exclusive interviews with sports creators. To get underway, our schedule is a bit different. We put up our intro post today (check it out now!), but tomorrow the fun truly begins. Then on Thursday, you'll hear directly from a creator who has dominated a niche within a niche. Join us for the ride, why don’t you? Click here so you don't miss anything as we get underway: https://lnkd.in/g99apCxz #creators #sports #newsletter #influencers