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title: Live Blog
description: Our newly introduced Liveblog feature empowers editorial and marketing teams with a versatile content format to enrich their coverage and sales inventory.
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# Live Blog

## Enhance your live coverage with our Live Blog feature, delivering minute-by-minute updates for football matches and breaking news. This tool offers editorial and marketing teams a dynamic content avenue to captivate their audience.

The Liveblog feature gives editorial and marketing teams a flexible content format to enrich their coverage and monetisation inventory. It enables real-time event coverage, delivering information post-by-post in a structured, visually engaging format.

The Liveblog feature supports two blog types: a **Match Live Blog** for live, minute-by-minute football coverage, and a **News Live Blog** for general news events.

Key features include:

1. **Automated Event Coverage:** Seamless integration with live data feeds automates posting of key match events. Posts can be edited to include editorial comments and descriptions.
2. **Contextual Information with Widgets:** A set of football widgets enhances coverage with additional contextual information, such as league tables, player stats, and match timelines.
3. **Engaging Multimedia Integration:** Multimedia embedding capabilities add color and engagement before, during, and after each match.
4. **Sponsorship and Advertising Integration:** Each post can be tagged with a sponsor/advertiser, enabling the application of appropriate styles for sponsored content on the front end.

### **Getting Started**

1**. Setting up a Live Blog event**

- Start by configuring and creating a **Live Blog Event**.

- There are two live blog types: **Match Live Blog** (for football matches) and **News Live Blog** (for general news events).

2\. **Crafting content**

- Write and publish captivating content for your event.

#### **Configuring a Live Blog**

1\. **Begin the Live Blog:**

Go to **Live Blog** from the dashboard menu and choose **New Live Blog**.

![Live blogs listing with New Live Blog button](https://knowledge-base.sportal365.com/hs-fs/hubfs/knowledge-base/widget-screenshots/misc4/live-blog/01-live-blogs-listing-1.png?width=700&name=01-live-blogs-listing-1.png)

2\. **Event Details**

- First, decide the type of live blog: select **match live blog** in the **Type** field.

If you select **News live blog** as the type, the **Sports configuration** tab will not appear, as it only applies to match live blogs.

- Fill out the mandatory fields: **Event title**, **Start time**, **Main category**, and **Main image**.

![Live Blog Event details step: Type field and mandatory fields](https://knowledge-base.sportal365.com/hs-fs/hubfs/knowledge-base/widget-screenshots/misc4/live-blog/02-event-details-form-1.png?width=700&name=02-event-details-form-1.png)

Note: You can choose between Image/Video/Gallery for your **Main media**.

- Click on **Next** to proceed.

3\. **Sports configuration**

- Pick the sport your event centers on.
- Next, choose the **Tournament**. This lets you select the participating teams.
- Add specific events by clicking on the **Events** button.

![Live Blog Sport configuration step: sport, tournament, teams and Events](https://knowledge-base.sportal365.com/hs-fs/hubfs/knowledge-base/widget-screenshots/misc4/live-blog/03-sport-configuration-1.png?width=700&name=03-sport-configuration-1.png)

4\. **Additional Settings:**

- Configure additional details for your live blog, including: 
    - Language
    - Number of pages available
    - Number of authors and collaborators
- Optionally, add your live blog to an article list to increase its visibility across your site.

![Live Blog Additional settings step: language, pagination, authors, collaborators and lists](https://knowledge-base.sportal365.com/hs-fs/hubfs/knowledge-base/widget-screenshots/misc4/live-blog/04-additional-settings-1.png?width=700&name=04-additional-settings-1.png)

### **Publishing Live Blog content**

1. **Crafting your post**

- Choose a live blog from the list.

![Live blogs listing with New Live Blog button](https://knowledge-base.sportal365.com/hs-fs/hubfs/knowledge-base/widget-screenshots/misc4/live-blog/01-live-blogs-listing-1.png?width=700&name=01-live-blogs-listing-1.png)

- The editing panel lets you build your content.
- Use standard editing tools and add diverse content, like odds or football widgets.
- Tag your posts with sponsors, set the event time, and other key details.

![](https://knowledge-base.sportal365.com/hubfs/image-png-Aug-28-2023-05-12-40-5410-AM.png)

- Once satisfied, hit **Publish**.

**Note:** You can also save your post as a draft before publishing, or highlight specific sections of your post to feature them.

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