Posted on 30th November, 2018 by Tim Mulligan in Eleven, Nfl, Sports, Sports Streaming, Tv Sports Viewing, Twitter and Watch Together
On November 28 Eleven Sports, the streaming SVOD insurgent, announced the rollout of a potentially disruptive feature called ‘Watch Together’. Watch Together adds private video group functionality to create a…
Read morePosted on 23rd November, 2018 by Paolo Pescatore in 5G, BT Sports, EE, Sports, Sports Broadcasting and Telcos
BT Sport will broadcast this weekend’s EE Wembley Cup live on YouTube using remote production over EE’s 5G network; a world first according to BT Sport. The sporting event is…
Read morePosted on 21st November, 2018 by Tim Mulligan in 21CF, 21st Century Fox, Amazon, AT&T, Fox, Regional Sports Networks, Sports and Sports Network
Hot on the heels of 21CF (21stCentury Fox) securing a renewal of its multi-year distribution deal with the leading US pay TV operator AT&T; 21CF’s regional US Sports networks are…
Read morePosted on 19th November, 2018 by Tim Mulligan in English Premier League, EPL, Sports, Sports Video Consumption and Susanna Dinnage
Last week’s appointment of Susanna Dinnage to the post of chief executive of the English Premier League marked a watershed moment in the history of Europe’s most valuable sports league. For…
Read morePosted on 12th September, 2018 by Alistair Taylor in Amazon Prime Video, Boxing, Combat Sports, Consumer Behaviour, DAZN, EPL, Matchroom Boxing, MLB, Monthly Video Subscriptions, NBA, Nfl, NHL, Online Video, Original Content, Pay-tv Subscriptions, Perform, Premium Rights, Sports, Sports Rights, Streaming Video, Svod, Tech Majors, Us, US Open and Viewership
On September 10th 2018 UK-based Perform Group officially launched DAZN US, its sports streaming video on demand (SVOD) service for the US. Following its inaugural launch in August 2016 in…
Read morePosted on 6th August, 2018 by Alistair Taylor in Ad Supported Streaming Service, Amazon, Asia, BBC IPlayer, Consumer Behaviour, Content Consumption, D-Day, Digital Content, Disney, Domestic Rights, EPL, Espn, Facebook, FIFA World Cup, Live Sports, Nfl, Pay Tv, Pay-tv Subscriptions, Rightsholders, Sport Centric Streaming Service, Sports, Sports Landscape, Sports Rights, Sports Viewing, Streaming Services, Subscribers, Subscription Video On Demand, Svod, Traditional Broadcasters, Tv Audience, UCL and UEFA Champions League
The sports landscape fundamentally changed when tech major Amazon won the exclusive rights to package F in the landmark English Premier League (EPL) rights deal in June. The acquisition of…
Read morePosted on 19th June, 2018 by Tim Mulligan in English Premier League, FIFA, Football, Soccer, Sports, Streaming, Svod, Video and World Cup
The football World Cup – historically the world’s biggest international sporting event by viewership, kicked off last Thursday (14 June) in Moscow, with host nation Russia dispatching Saudi Arabia 5-0.…
Read morePosted on 15th June, 2018 by Alistair Taylor in Amazon, Consumers, EPL, Football, Premier League, Rights, Soccer, Sports, Sports Rights, Sports SVOD Landscape, Sports Video, Streaming, Streaming Video, Subscriptions, Svod, TV Viewing and Viewership
Following the landmark rights deal that saw the English Premier League (EPL) sell domestic rights to the tech major Amazon, the sports landscape has fundamentally changed. For the first time…
Read morePosted on 7th June, 2018 by Tim Mulligan in Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, BT, English Premier League, EPL, Niche SVOD, Sky, Sports and Streaming
Today the Premier League has announced that both these two remaining packages have been sold -and one of the successful bidders for the first time is an SVOD (Subscription Video…
Read morePosted on 6th June, 2018 by Alistair Taylor in Consumer Behaviour, Cord Cutting, Digital Rights, Linear Tv, Mobile, Networks, Sports, Sports Consumer, Sports Rights, Streaming, Streaming Video, Svod and Viewership
Traditional linear TV broadcasters are feeling the strain from the reduction in loyal customers, as sports consumption continues to transition from TV to online and mobile. SVOD’s streaming content land…
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