NFL: Here's the most followed teams on TikTok right now
The NFL season is long gone but it doesn’t mean the teams’ content creators are slowing down. A new Casino Alpha report reveals just what teams have the most TikTok followers with 2023 underway and needless to say? My New York Football Giants need to step it up.
It’s all in the numbers
While the Dallas Cowboys are America’s Team, it’s clear the team has ample work to do to get to the same level as the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs.
The most followed NFL teams on TikTok have been revealed in a new study.
To determine the most-followed teams, casino experts Casino Alpha analyzed TikTok, to find out how many followers each of the official NFL team accounts have and how many likes their videos have received.
Ranking in first spot after their win on Sunday is the Kansas City Chiefs, the study found they are the most followed NFL team on TikTok, with a total of 2.6 million followers and 45.6 million likes for videos they have posted on their official account. The Chiefs’ top pinned video, which has gained 5.8 million views, is based on asking their players who their favorite team mate is.
Coming in first for TikTok likes and second in TikTok followers is the Philadelphia Eagles, whose videos have received 48 million likes - 2.4 million more than the Kansas City Chiefs. The Eagles’ most viewed video is of player DeVonta Smith,‘Mic’d Up’, which has gained 7.4 million views.
The Dallas Cowboys came in joint third place, on 1.9 million followers and 25 million likes across their videos, with their latest video posted on Micah Parsons gaining 1.1 million views and 100,500 likes.
Joining the Dallas Cowboys in third place are the Detroit Lions who claim to be the ‘CEO of verified replies’ in their TikTok bio with 1.9 million followers and 36.4 million likes across their videos. That makes the Detroit Lions’ videos more liked than the Dallas Cowboys with a 11.4 million TikTok likes difference.
The Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers are the fourth and joint fifth most followed NFL accounts, with the Bills coming in fourth place just on top of the Bengals and Steelers. The Bills official team account has 100,000 more followers than the Bengals and Steelers, which each have 1.8 million TikTok followers.
In sixth place is the Los Angeles Rams which is followed by joint seventh place for San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots. Eighth spot is taken up by the New York Giants and Miami Dolphins. Then five teams come in joint ninth with one million followers - the Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Chargers and Tennessee Titans. Finally, claiming number ten on the list is the Carolina Panthers.
A spokesperson from CasinoAlpha.com commented on the findings “As the NFL took place on Sunday, it’s interesting to see which NFL teams are the most popular and generating the most interactions with their fans on TikTok. It’s also fascinating to note that the official NFL TikTok account has a huge 10 million followers and 414.1 million likes, which is more followers than the four most followed NFL teams combined. The content and the interactions of all the accounts built up to a great atmosphere and tension for the game and it's interesting to see how the Kansas City Chiefs who won have the most TikTok followers.”
