served worldwide founder s ben tarek lee smith matt jackson key people ben tarek lee smith matt jackson vlad bosinceanu araz heydariyehzadeh owner independent slogan s broadcasting the beautiful game website www.footytube.com alexa rank 6 841 april 2014 update 1 type of site football video & news aggregator registration optional required to comment and rate videos available in english launched 24 july 2006 2006 07 24 current status active footytube is a football video community . the website attracts over 1.4 million unique monthly users with around 16m pageviews . 2 and is listed in alexa as being the 18th most visited football site in the world . 3 the site aggregates vast amounts of football data and presents this in a contextualized fashion to the user covering everything from the latest highlights to fan made content player interviews and club podcasts . the site also has a wide ranging set of community features geared towards the football enthusiast . users can create profiles and compete in the footytube fan valuation fantasy football and fan trait leagues . contents 1 recognition 2 history 3 technology 4 staff 5 side projects openfooty 6 references 7 external links recognition edit footytube appeared in the daily telegraph newspaper s top 25 football websites in 2009 4 and was also a featured site in the guardian s guide and things we like this week sections . the website is also featured in the guardian s open platform gallery . 5 footytube is often mentioned in tweets by sporting celebrities and football journalists including tim lovejoy who described the site as a footie fans heaven . 6 history edit footytube was founded in july 2006 in what initially began as a wordpress blog showcasing the latest football videos from around the world . the blog quickly grew in popularity with supporters and before long was attracting upwards of 100 000 unique visitors per month . in early 2007 footytube was acquired by lee smith and matthew jackson two web developers and internet entrepreneurs with a passion for football . 7 the current incarnation of the website footytube 2.0 spent a total of 18 months in development before a closed beta version was released in february 2009 . the footytube 2.0 beta went public in may 2009 . dispensing with the old blog the site deploys a state of the art custom web crawler for aggregating vast amounts of football data from around the world . the new version of the site also saw various football community centric features released including dreamfooty a proprietary fantasy football league game . the current version of the site is the 2.1.5 spreadlight release . the next major release 2.2 is expected in august 2010 some features of which will be unveiled during the 2010 world cup . 8 technology edit footytube claim to have the most advanced football web crawler on the internet . the bot aggregates football videos news podcasts blogs fixtures results odds and team stats and displays this data in a contextualized fashion alongside video content and team data . this is achieved by employing a range of partner apis and services . 9 staff edit there are a total of four board members including tarek ben founder lee smith managing director matthew jackson communications director and vlad bosinceanu technical director . during the latter half of 2009 araz heydariyehzadeh joined the commercial department as commercial director . 10 side projects openfooty edit openfooty is a spin off project spearheaded by the footytube team in an effort to support the wider football community . the project seeks to help encourage the emergence of innovative and compelling websites and ideas by championing open solutions in football . it represents the first and only free for non commercial use football data api available on the internet today . the api exposes much of the data that is collected via the footytube crawler as well as data from partnerships with global sports media and the guardian . 11 references edit footytube.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2014 04 01 . footytube quantcast audience profile . alexa top football sites . wilson steve 22 september 2009 . the telegraph top 25 football websites . the daily telegraph . london . guardian open platform gallery footytube . the guardian . london . 1 october 2009 . ubervu footytube conversations . footytube forum origins of footytube . footytube forums . footytube search technology . footytube about us . openfooty . external links edit footytube retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title footytube & oldid 697873685 categories football media in the united kingdomassociation football websiteshidden categories use dmy dates from march 2012articles containing potentially dated statements from april 2014all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main 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