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SF Chronicle inexplicably publishes PR touting UFC 121 online stream
By Zach Arnold | October 24, 2010
With an opportunity to win their first World Series since moving to San Francisco, the Giants have everyone’s attention in the Bay Area sports market. (The Niners being one of the worst teams has helped contribute to the growing fandom.) In other words, it’s kind of a big deal and anything relating to the Giants drew monster web traffic online Saturday night.
On a Saturday night where the Bay Area is going insanely crazy over the Giants going to the World Series, what was the #1 most-viewed link on the SF Chronicle web site? A press release from PR Web touting how you can watch a live stream of the UFC 121 PPV online ‘for free.’
Here’s the screen capture of how popular this press release was:
I was able to grab the page info and it was created at 7:41 PM on Saturday night. 12 hours after it was ranked as the most popular item on the Chronicle page, it remained ranked as the second most-popular item on the web page. In other words, it drew a lot of eye balls.
Now, here’s the link to the press release on the Chronicle site and the text of what was written:
Press Releases
UFC 121 Live Stream! Watch UFC 121 Online Free Lesnar vs Velasquez with Satellite Direct
New York, NY (PRWEB) October 23, 2010
Watch UFC 121 live Stream including Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez, Kampmann vs Shields, Hamill vs Ortiz, Sanchez vs Thiago, Gonzaga vs Schaub.
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For the original version on PRWeb visit:
www.prweb.com/releases/prwebfreewatchufc121livestream/lesnarvsvelasquezonlinehd/prweb4688154.htm
Here’s a screen capture of what it looked like on PR Web Saturday. I grabbed the page info and it was put on PR Web at 11 AM that morning.
Given Zuffa’s aggressiveness in going after pirate sites who stream UFC PPV feeds, this right here is about as fat of a target as you could possibly get.
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