Basketnews.lt
http://basketnews.lt
Basketnews.lt is a sports news website offering basketball news in the Lithuanian language, aiming to be an indispensable part of the Lithuanian basketball world. Recently, the newsroom launched a parallel English version (www.basketnews.com) serving a global audience.
The Lithuanian site is financed with advertising and subscriptions; the newsroom is still thinking about the funding model for the English site. Both sites publish breaking news and produce podcasts and videos. However, the English version focuses on coverage and analysis of the EuroLeague and NBA events.
Last updated: January 2023
Location:
Kaunas, Lithuania
Year the organisation started publishing:
2005
Languages:
English
Type of coverage:
International
Countries of coverage:
Albania
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Turkey
Ukraine
Other
Belarus
Georgia
Other countries of coverage:
Russia
Content
Type of content produced by theme:
Sports
Journalism genres:
Chronicles and non-fiction
Interviews and reporting
Information services
Opinion
Narrative journalism
Reviews
Journalism coverage types and techniques:
Crowdsourcing
Engaged, community-driven or participatory journalism
Explanatory journalism
Cross-border journalism
Collaborative journalism
Curated/aggregated content
Breaking news
Live coverage of events
Data journalism
Tech platforms and other mediums used:
Website
Newsletter
Social media platforms
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Tiktok
Podcast
YouTube
Mobile app
Primary tech platform or medium used to publish content:
Website
Audience and reach
Social media audience
Facebook number of followers:
96000
Twitter number of followers:
23800
Instagram number of followers:
19000
YouTube number of followers:
31600
Tiktok number of followers:
5446
Management and team
Founders
Female:
None
Male:
3
Founders:
Vidmantas Čičelis, Justas Vilys, Rokas Buračas
Directors:
Jonas Miklovas, Tomas Vanagas, Karolis Tiškevičius
Team
Full-time employees:
16
Freelancers or consultants:
20
Business structure and revenue sources
Organisation tax status:
For-profit
All revenue sources reported by media leaders:
YouTube channel income
Paid Website subscriptions
Advertising
Google Adsense
Programmatic ad networks
Branded content or native advertising
National advertising sold by own team
Content services for others
Content development for other non-journalistic companies
Audience support / reader revenue
Other
The primary source of revenue reported by media leaders:
Programmatic ad networks
The second most important revenue source reported:
National advertising sold by own team
Others revenue sources:
Merchandising
Transparency
Doesn’t publish information about annual revenue
Doesn’t publish the names of donors
Doesn’t have an ethics policy / manual
Has a data privacy policy
Publishes a data privacy policy
Doesn’t have a whistleblower policy
Has a complaints policy
Publishes a complaints policy
Doesn’t have a sexual harassment or institutional
violence policy
Is not signed up to a press regulator, trust
initiative, or part of a press association
Publishes up to date information about its team