{"id":53121,"date":"2015-06-09T03:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T08:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53121"},"modified":"2015-06-09T03:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T08:01:29","slug":"the-rock-john-cena-king-kong-bundy-george-the-animal-steele-are-elated-wwe-surpasses-half-a-billion-social-media-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53121","title":{"rendered":"The Rock, John Cena, King Kong Bundy &#038; George &#8220;The Animal&#8221; Steele are ELATED &#8211; WWE SURPASSES HALF A BILLION SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53121\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53121\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-29997 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wwe2k.jpg\" alt=\"wwe2k\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>The WWE recently announced it has eclipsed half a billion fans through its global social media platforms, further cementing its position as one of the most-followed brands in the world.<\/p>\n<p>WWE\u2019s flagship Facebook page has more fans than the NFL, ESPN, Marvel, Google and UFC, and WWE Superstar John Cena is the No.1 most followed active American athlete on Facebook with more than 36 million likes. On Twitter, @WWE has more followers than MLB, Disney, Sony and Pepsi and according to Klout, is the No. 1 most influential brand on Twitter. On Instagram, WWE\u2019s fastest-growing platform, @WWE has more followers than ESPN, HBO, NHL and Gatorade. With nearly 5 billion video views on YouTube in the past year alone, WWE is the No. 1 Sports channel ahead of the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, ESPN and NASCAR.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>WWE\u2019s Social Media Snapshot:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Facebook: 354 million total likes, including 98 million new likes, an increase of 38 percent year-over year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Twitter: 108 million total followers, including 18 million new followers, an increase of 20 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Instagram: 26 million total followers, including 25 million new followers, an increase of 2,955 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 YouTube: 6.2 million total subscribers, including 2.8 million new subscribers, an increase of 82 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, WWE won awards for Overall Social Media Excellence and Social Media Dream Team at the 2015 Cynopsis Sports Media Awards and 2015 Cablefax Digital Awards, respectively. WWE\u2019s 12 social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Periscope, Google+, Vine, Foursquare, Tumblr, Pheed and Pinterest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE recently announced it has eclipsed half a billion fans through its global social media platforms, further cementing its position as one of the most-followed brands in the world. WWE\u2019s flagship Facebook page has more fans than the NFL, ESPN, Marvel, Google and UFC, and WWE Superstar John Cena is the No.1 most followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1337,12982,1623],"class_list":["post-53121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-john-cena","tag-king-kong-bundy-george-the-animal-steele-are-elated-wwe-surpasses-half-a-billion-social-media-followers","tag-the-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53121"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}