{"id":865027,"date":"2026-09-29T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:02:09","slug":"data-drive-wnba-teams-up-for-2026-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865027\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Drive: WNBA, teams up for 2026 on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-womens-sports \">With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/09\/25\/allie-clifton-ready-to-tackle-prime-videos-first-wnba-playoff-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/09\/25\/allie-clifton-ready-to-tackle-prime-videos-first-wnba-playoff-series\">WNBA playoffs underway<\/a>, the regular season brought increased engagement and viewers on social media, according to data from Blinkfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-womens-sports \">Combined, they amassed nearly 3 billion video views in the regular season across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, TikTok and YouTube. YouTube is the fastest-growing platform, with engagement up 21% and followers up 29% for the W and its teams. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the WNBA playoffs underway, the regular season brought increased engagement and viewers on social media, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[74371,99,434,1765],"class_list":["post-865027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-data-and-insights","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}