My diet for the consumption of sports media varies from a wide variety of different things. Over the last five years, I would say that social media has been the main way that I consume sports media. I used to use Instagram as one of the main ways I consumed sports. I would follow my favorite teams and other sports accounts like Bleacher Report or Overtime. Initially, this was the way I kept up with the sports world a couple of years ago. However, that has since changed, and I now use X to keep up to date. I enjoy using X because you can receive sports news as soon as it happens. This is something beneficial during NBA trade deadlines, Premier League Transfer windows, or NBA/NFL draft news. X is also skilled at identifying accounts dedicated to posting news about your favorite sports teams.
YouTube is the social media that I continue to use quite often today. I use YouTube to watch highlights of a match or of a player that I like. Here is also where I like to watch YouTubers who talk about sports. These can be YouTubers that cover my favorite teams specifically, or YouTubers who cover things going on in a league I like. To contrast the popular trend of short-term media, I like to watch YouTube videos to get a deeper understanding of certain topics. The next way that I consume sports media is with the social media app TikTok. TikTok is the way I am able to consume quick-form content. This would be the highlight of a play that happened during a game or a fan edit of a player. A difference that TikTok brings is that the accounts of sports teams may post funny videos following a trend going around. Finally, I consume sports media by watching television, and I use the TV to watch my favorite teams play live.
In the future, I believe that podcasts will be even bigger than they are today. I see more players wanting to get into podcasting or even general managers wanting to start one. I can also see people wanting to watch fewer games live in exchange for short-form content on social media. The short form content would ruin some people’s attention span, and they wouldn’t be able to sit down or attend a game. If I had a magic wand, this would be the thing that I would change: get rid of short-form content. Getting rid of it would help push people to see more games at home or travel to see it live.