Ballislife.com

Ballislife.com
Available in English
Website ballislife.com
Commercial yes
Launched 2005 (2005)
Current status Active

Ballislife.com is an American sports website that provides basketball coverage and self filmed and produced video mixtapes.[1] Started in 2005 by a group of friends [2][3], the site is owned by Matt Rodriguez and Arek Kissoyan. It specializes in creating highlights of high school players as well as delivering up to date coverage in and around the sport of basketball as a whole. [4] The company is unique in the sense that it does not solely rely on advertisements to survive as it also has a line of apparel. This allows the company to work a bit more freely while delivering what it's audience wants most.[2][4]

In 2011, it started the Ballislife All-American Game, an annual high school all-star game.[1][5] Originally created to showcase West Coast basketball players, it grew to include top players from throughout the nation.[6][7] Since the 2015–16 season, Ballislife.com has published the FAB 50 National Team Rankings, a weekly ranking of the top high school basketball teams in the nation, and has also awarded the Mr. Basketball USA honor, given to the top boys basketball player in the nation.[8]

In late August 2017 Ballislife reached 1 million YouTube Subscribers and just a week later reached 2 million fans on Instagram.

References

  1. 1 2 Mejia, Stephanie (March 25, 2011). "BallisLife All-American Game". Slam. Archived from the original on May 24, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Littman, Chris (March 12, 2014). "Video Kings: An oral history of Ballislife and Hoopmixtape". Sporting News. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ "About Us". Ballislife.com. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Ugland, Devin (May 3, 2015). "Kentucky signees and Thon Maker star in BallIsLife.com All-American game". USA Today. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Boys' basketball: All-star game comes to Fullerton". Los Angeles Times. March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ Flores, Ronnie (April 5, 2016). "2016 Ballislife A-A Game April 30". CalHiSports.com. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016.
  7. ↑ Guardabascio, Mike (April 30, 2016). "Lonzo Ball earns MVP honors at Ballislife All-American Game in Long Beach". Long Beach Press–Telegram. Archived from the original on May 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ Flores, Ronnie (November 10, 2015). "2015-16 FAB 50 Rankings Announcement". Grassroots Hoops. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016.
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