![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. “Instant Replay does not solve every problem, but if it could help our Athletes and Officials, we have to act.” It’s time we at IPRA use the tools already in place with our growing media coverage to get it right – when we can,” added Yerigan. “Instant Replay Review has been in practice consistently, in rodeo, since the WCRA launched. More recently, in 2018 World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) launched and has implemented the Instant Replay Review Challenge for all events and televised rounds of competition. In 2016, the now-dissolved Elite Rodeo Athletes (ERA) launched a televised tour using Instant Replay Review Challenge and was the first tour or series of events in Rodeo to do so. This serves as the first record of Instant Replay Review Challenge in western sports. After review, the call was reversed and Snyder was awarded a 80.50 score for his effort. In 2006, during PBR World Finals, Luke Snyder challenged that he slapped Frontier Rodeo Company’s Silent Angel during his ride. The first to introduce the concept to competition was the Professional Bull Riders (PBR). Instant Replay in Western SportsĪlthough now very common in professional sports leagues like the NFL, MLB and NBA, Instant Replay Review is not typical in Rodeo and western sports events. As the sport’s second-largest professional rodeo association sanctioning over 400 rodeos annually, the IPRA also has a membership base of over 2,700 members and currently sanctions rodeos across the United States and Canada. Or more likely, these things become features of other services.Īlready Digg is working on its own URL-shortening toolbar wrapped into its service, and Stumbleupon is working on su.pr, which is even shorter than bit.Recently acquired by Rodeo Logisitcs LLC, the IPRA is positioning itself for growth and influence in the Rodeo industry. The data each service is collecting might be valuable and could be packaged in various ways to brand marketers or other corporate buyers. TinyURL has slapped some Google ads on its site and bit.ly doesn’t even bother. The links themselves act as pass-throughs to the original sites. How any URL shortener is supposed to make money is still unclear. The bit.ly service itself is a spin-off from Betaworks, which is also an investor in Tweetdeck (and in Twitter). For instance, TweetDeck (a popular Twitter client) uses bit.ly as its default shortener. They use desktop clients or browser based tools instead which incorporate one service or the other. Traffic to and cannot be trusted as reliable proxies for usage because heavy users don’t go to the corresponding websites. Bit.ly also offers better analytics and tracking tools on the backend.ĭon’t get too caught up in the site traffic growth figures either, though. ![]() ![]() Why is bit.ly growing so much faster? One big reason is because it creates even shorter URLs than TinyURL does by about five characters ( versus ). Bit.ly seems to be shooting up like a rocket, while TinyURL may have plateaued. Yes, I am making up these numbers, just like the investors do.īut wait. So by that metric, if bit.ly is worth $8 million, TinyURL should be worth at least $46 million (8/13 X 75 = 46.15). The biggest URL shortner out there is actually TinyURL, which commands a 75 percent share. Its market share of shortened links, as calculated by Tweetmeme, is only 13 percent. Assuming bit.ly sold 20 percent of its shares to its new investors (the O’Reilly Alpha Tech Fund, Mitch Kapor, and Howard Lindzon), that would imply an $8 million pre-money valuation ($10 million post-money). Today, one of these URL shortening services, bit.ly, raised $2 million, sparking the question: How much are these things actually worth? Nobody really knows.īut here is some fun math. It is the only practical way to share links on the service. So-called URL shortening services are increasingly becoming indispensable to anyone who uses Twitter. That goes double (or is it half?) for lengthy URLs. In a world where everything is being jammed into 140 characters or less, shorter is better. ![]()
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