UPDATING A LEADING SPORTS NEWS PLATFORM

RIVALS

YAHOO!

Rivals.com is a popular Yahoo-owned sports website and publishing network focused on college football and basketball recruiting. The Rivals team brought Grio on to execute a comprehensive site update that included modernizing the site design and creating a responsive, mobile-friendly web app.

Grio truly shows their value when it’s crunch time for delivery. You will not find this level of commitment and ownership from any other consulting company. We are very lucky to have Grio as a partner."

JACKSON HSIEH

Senior Director of Product Development for Rivals.com

THE CHALLENGE

Modernize Rivals’ Appearance, Performance, and Tooling

Rivals wanted to improve overall site performance, boost user growth, and make it easier to publish articles and image galleries across the Rivals.com network. To accomplish these goals, Grio’s team of designers and developers needed to integrate seamlessly with Rivals’ product owners and stakeholders, who are spread out across the United States.

OUR APPROACH

Multifunctional Team
Close Collaboration
Continuous Delivery

Grio and Rivals collaborated to create a new site look and feel, update the Rivals.com code base, and develop streamlined, user-friendly publishing tools. The two teams moved the project forward quickly through weekly planning sessions, daily scrums, constant online communication, and frequent retrospectives, which enabled rapid decision-making and iteration.

Grio is a highly adaptable, cohesive team. We have been extremely pleased with their work on Rivals, especially considering our time constraints. There is a wide array of talent represented across native mobile, web and design, and we have benefitted from all of it."

LUKE DEROSSI

Senior Director of Engineering for Rivals.com

RESULTS

Better Site Performance
12x Increase in Site Traffic
User-Friendly Publishing Tools
New Mobile Experience

The new Rivals.com codebase performs beautifully under heavy traffic—and the new homepage has seen a twelvefold traffic lift since the update. Rivals.com publishers now operate more efficiently thanks to modern, user-friendly publishing tools, and mobile users can easily access and navigate the site through apps for both iOS and Android.