OleOle

OleOle is a social networking website for football fans. Founded in 2006, OleOle is a privately-held international company with headquarters in Beverly Hills, California and offices in New Zealand as well as across Europe and South America.

The website enables fans from around the world to access a wide array of information on all the football topics and news and information that are independent of the traditional media, leagues, clubs or organizations who deliver their own content. A multi-lingual site, it is available in 10 languages - English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

Online Social Networking Platform for Football Fans

The OleOle Football Platform is one of the first and only multi-lingual social media websites built around a single topic: Football. Registration to OleOle.com is free. Once registered, users are able to connect with each other in an environment that has 100% football fan-driven content: videos, wallpapers, photos, blogs, fan clubs, articles, news, podcasts, statistics, history and more.

The OleOle social media platform enables devoted fans to continue their passionate discussions online and create conversations, share experiences and opinions, and publish news about the sport, the teams and players, managers and officials.

All the content on OleOle is created, rated, moderated and edited entirely by users. The OleOle platform intends to cover the entire word of football, with a separate editable user-generated content section for every professional team, league and player in the world. OleOle covers more than 170 competitions, 300 leagues, 208 national teams and football federations, 5,580 clubs, and 57,500 players.

Customizable members’ pages

OleOle enables members to customize and style the look and feel of their profile page. Page widgets can be added, configured and moved around the page according to each individual’s preferences; and the fans can choose which content gets featured and displayed based on votes from the entire OleOle football fan community.

User-generated content on a vertical platform

OleOle has taken the technologies from social networking, social media and football news and created a vertical social networking platform dedicated to football. Envisioned by its creators as the future of online sports websites, it is a place where the fans participate, create and drive the conversation and the content. Its user-generated content model reflects the growing trend whereby users recommendations and opinions prevail over traditional, single-voice media. Oleole.com enables fan to read about opinions from their peers and football experts. It enables football fans to voice and express their opinions.

The OleOle platform blends many social media functions together around each topical section so that fans can find information quickly and join in the discussion. Functions include:

• Customizable team, player, league sections composed of widgets that fans can configure, style and move.
• Integrated multi-lingual blogs for publishing posts directly to the relevant sections of the platform.
• Live Scores keep fans updated in real time online about matches they might not be able to see. Members can check the results of past games, and see future schedules.
• A user-generated rich media Football Encyclopedia that leverages MediaWiki technology and provides football historians with a place to write about their teams' history, record statistics and document match records.
• Throw-Ins - news articles or media found outside of OleOle that members can submit, vote on and discuss. The most popular Throw-Ins rise to the front page.
• Fantasy Football games that include five leagues, and an exclusive European Super-League that lets members assemble their dream teams and test their mettle as a team manager.
• Photo, video, and desktop wallpaper galleries that contain member-generated media that can be shared online.

Football’s most popular blogs on Oleole.com

To cement itself as the world’s leading football website, the growth strategy of Oleole.com has revolved around viral growth, search engine optimization and the acquisition of some of football’s most popular blogs such as Internazionale’s Io Sto Con Mancini^[1] and Aston Villa F.C.'s popular blog The Villa Blog^[2]

Official Fifa Travel Partner for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa

OleOle has been appointed by FIFA through MATCH Event Services as a Participating tour operator to distribute ticket packages for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa. In April 2010, OleOle launched their new FIFA World Cup Tickets and Travel Package store - www.worldcuptickets.biz.

References

1. ^ OleOle Acquires Popular Italian Football Blog about Inter Milan "Io Sto Con Mancini"
2. ^ OleOle Acquires Aston Villa Fan Blog, More To Come

External links

• OleOle.com