By Alex O’Loughlin
August 23 – Barcelona have become the first football club in the world to boast more than a million YouTube subscribers to its channel.
Barca’s channel on the multimedia website has attracted 447,000 subscribers in 2013 alone (almost half of their seven figure total) with June 2012 being the club’s most successful month with over 11.7 million views.
Created in 2006, the official Barcelona channel has shared more than 5,500 videos with a total viewing time of over 15 million minutes of footage, indicating why the Blaugrana’s YouTube account is the most popular sports channel in Spain.
In June, the unveiling of summer signing Neymar from Santos attracted more than 2.4 million views on YouTube becoming the club’s third most watched video ever, with ‘Camp Nou tribute to Pep Guardiola’ topping the list with 2.7 million views.
Only the National Basketball Association (NBA) boasts more subscribers on YouTube than Barcelona amongst the sporting fraternity.
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