Collingwood & West Coast Eagles battled on Sunday not only at the MCG but also online, here are the results.

The Build Up

Collingwood

Via Website – Smash the digital Eagles!

On Facebook

On Twitter

West Coast

Via Website – Beat the Pies in our online battle

On Facebook

On Twitter

The Results

YouTube

Metric: Increase in YouTube channel subscribers (over just 4 days Thursday to Monday!)

West Coast – 294 subscribers with a 7% increase
Collingwood – 1854 subscribers with a 9.5% increase

Collingwood WIN

As Collingwood took out the YouTube round you get to see that Dale Thomas banana goal if you haven’t already…

Facebook

Metric: Number of likes obtained pre-game on Sunday

West Coast – 1076 likes or 1.3% of Facebook fan base
Collingwood – 4830 likes or 3.6% of Facebook fan base

Collingwood WIN

Twitter

Metric: Hashtag usage & volume

West Coast  – 181 tweeps sent out 294 tweets using #goeagles which was 3.3 % of followers at 0.07 tweets per follower
Collingwood – 376 tweeps sent out 1316 tweets using #gopies which was 2.4% of followers at 0.08 tweets per follower

West Coast WIN

Great engagement by both fans across Facebook & Twitter and growth on YouTube will no doubt allow fans of both teams to get closer to the action.   Sports Geek is looking forward to helping the Eagles & Pies grow their digital fan base as well as the deepen their relationships with fans via social media.

Overall Winner Collingwood 2-1

Perhaps a rematch will occur come finals time?

Who would have thought at the start of the year that Collingwood & West Coast would be the ONLY top 8 teams facing each other in round 10?

They are both rallying the digital fans for the big battle at the MCG on Sunday with a friendly competition on the big three platforms – Facebook, YouTube & Twitter.

With over 200,000 Facebook fans, 20,000 Twitter followers between them & fans jumping on board with newly formed YouTube channels expect to see both teams trending on Sunday.

Here is the team’s initial call to fans to fire up, stay tuned over the weekend for more action from both teams.

Collingwood – Smash the digital Eagles! – Facebook – Twitter – YouTube

West Coast – Beat the Pies in our online battle – Facebook – Twitter – YouTube

Both teams are getting great fan engagement numbers lately especially when compared to the NBA Western Conference Finalists as reviewed using SSMI.

Here’s hoping the digital battle provides the same spark for their fans that it did for the Sea Eagles & Rabbitohs

Stay tuned on Monday for the results.