Rivals.ph

Not to be confused with Rivals.com, an American sports news website focuses on collegiate baseball and basketball.
Rivals Philippines

Official logo (above) and the screenshot of the Rivals Philippines website that was updated since September 21, 2014 (below).
Type of site
 Sports journalism
Available in English
Owner James & Griffin Multimedia
Created by Josiah Israel Albelda (Editor in Chief)
Slogan(s) "All The Sports You Love. Here."
Website www.rivals.ph
Alexa rank 337,299 (October 2014)[1]
Commercial Yes
Registration No
Launched

December 2010-March 2012 (1st incarnation)
March–July 2012 (as Matchpoint.ph)[2]


July 2012-March 2013 (2nd incarnation)
June 22, 2014 (3rd incarnation)
Current status Active

Rivals Philippines (also known as Rivals Sports Network) is an independent sports news website based in Malingap St., Teachers Village, Quezon City, Philippines. Founded in December 2010 by James and Griffin Multimedia, took 3 reincarnations before it was relaunched in June 22, 2014 during the coverage of the 2014 Cagayan Friendship Games Volleyball tournament.[3]

At present, Rivals is one of the top sports news websites in the Philippines, aside from Summit Media's SPIN.ph (Sports Interactive Network Philippines), Sportsdesk.ph, Sports5.ph, among other websites dedicated to the sports development.

Background

Rivals.ph delivers accurate, real-time and latest sports stories, stats and figures (thru the Rivals Rundown), opinions and analysis, photos & videos and commentaries in the Philippine & international sports world including professional and amateur/grassroots sports like basketball (NBA, PBA, UAAP, NCAA), volleyball (SVL, PSL, UAAP and NCAA), football, fight sports (boxing and mixed martial arts), tennis, Formula One, poker and cheerdance. Rivals currently partnered with Sheridan Hoops and the European Press Photo Agency.

One of the most-viewed sections of the Rivals website is the Hype section which brings to the readers, the lighter side of the sports that Rivals covered including the top 10 lists and the newly launched "Fans Central" section. (sport fandom articles created for the fans, by the fans)

During the first three months of operation of the 3rd incarnation of Rivals.ph, the website already reached more than 1.5 million page views (by month).[4]

Rivals is composed of full-time writers, photographers and contributors who have major work experience in sports journalism and taking multimedia content in the website. Rivals working out for the launching of their own magazine using the Rivals brand that will published by November 2014.

Writers & Personnel

Basketball

Volleyball/Hype

Fight Sports

Columnists

Photos, Graphics and Videos

References

  1. ↑ "Rivals.ph Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-10-07.
  2. ↑ "MatchPoint.PH". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ "About Us". Rivals. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Rivals Fan Central". Rivals. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
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