Alistair Taylor

German Bundesliga faces 20% decline in value for its international rights

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

1 Oct 2020

German business publisher Sponsors has announced the German Football League (DFL) is facing a 20% decline in the total value of its overseas’ broadcast rights for the 2020/21 campaign. This is down from…

DAZN 2019 Financials and Subscriber Deep Dive
Domestic Rights Key to Unlocking Audiences

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Report by Alistair Taylor

30 Sep 2020

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DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty in encouraging consumer adoption of a digital live sports proposition with a limited portfolio of sports rights. 2019 marked a year of consolidation…

European Professional Club Rugby goes OTT, pressing business over the needs of fans

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Sep 2020

Last Friday , European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR), the Heineken Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup’s governing body announced the launch of its global over-the-top (OTT) streaming…

Creating the digital home of hockey - SportsPro Live panel

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

17 Sep 2020

Yesterday at SportsPro Live, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussing the creation of the digital home of hockey with Thierry Weil, International Hockey Federation (FIH)’s CEO and Jean-Luc…

Verizon Media announces platform to ‘evolve’ live streaming experience

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

16 Sep 2020

Verizon Media announced a series of new Media Platform improvements in a press release today (16th September), intended to ‘evolve the live streaming experience’. These features are all aimed at increasing…

DAZN financials: Growth reliant on premium domestic rights

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2020

DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty of encouraging a transition to consume live sports digitally with its existing portfolio of rights. DAZN has not yet released its 2019 financials, but…

Snapshot
UK Q1 2020 Consumer Engagement for MMA and Boxing

Report by Tim Mulligan and Alistair Taylor

11 Sep 2020

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Methodology This mini report is a review of trends and data established on MMA and boxing engagement from Q3 2019 to Q1 2020 in the leading English-speaking markets of the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.…

Post-Pandemic Programming
Surviving and Thriving in the Recession

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Report by Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Alistair Taylor, Keith Jopling and Hanna Kahlert

9 Sep 2020

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COVID-19 caused dislocation and disruption to the global entertainment business. Now, the recession and the prospect of further pandemic peaks have created an unprecedented outlook for entertainment…

Wanda Sports Group’s financials highlight long-term impact of live hiatus

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

3 Sep 2020

Wanda Sports Group’s (WSG) Q2 financials highlight a significant decline in revenues on account of “the broad effects of COVID-19 mitigation efforts”. WSG reported a second successive quarter of…

Recovery Economics
Post-Lockdown Sports

Report by Alistair Taylor

28 Aug 2020

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As live sports resume following the coronavirus crisis lockdowns, the long-term impact of sports’ mass hiatus will be substantial. An activity gap created a void state for consumers, freeing up previously…

Can LiveScore learn valuable lessons from Eleven Sports’ UK failings?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

24 Aug 2020

Streaming insurgent LiveScore launched its first ever over-the-top (OTT), ad-supported direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming proposition in the UK back in June, harbouring a similar rights portfolio to that…

COVID fallout: BBC no longer considers UK Athletics value for money

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

COVID-19 exposed live entertainment as a vulnerable asset class , specifically following the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports . One of the hardest hit during this hiatus and ensuing uncertainty…

Fortnite’s Party Royale provides sports untapped avenue for reaching digital natives

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

Burgeoning universal platform Fortnite’s ‘ Party Royale ’ is slowly becoming the gateway for rights holders to reach digitally native audiences. Party Royale, Fortnite’s ‘ experimenta l’ game…

Return of the fan: COVID-19 thwarts fan pilot sporting events amid regional spikes in cases

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

6 Aug 2020

Just when sports fans thought it was safe to go back into the water, COVID reared its ugly head once more. UK fan pilot sporting events were all set to start allowing fans back into arenas and attend live…

TwitchSports: Amazon throws sports into the starting line-up

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

29 Jul 2020

Amazon-owned Twitch is no newcomer to sports. However, in a deliberate move to double down, Amazon has conceded that it needs to improve the discoverability of live sporting events for its platform users…

DAZN’s belated UK launch: Can it avoid Eleven Sports’ 'mistake’?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

24 Jul 2020

DAZN, the anointed ‘Netflix of Sport’, has announced plans to resume launching its services globally via a beta service covering boxing bouts In July and August, for users who have registered their…

Reach for the win: BT Sport to air UEFA Champions League final on YouTube

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Jul 2020

UK pay-TV incumbent BT Sport has announced it will air this year’s (COVID-delayed) UEFA Champions League (UCL) final free-to-air (FTA) on Google-owned YouTube. YouTube’s head of sport in EMEA, Tomos…

NBCUniversal hopes to draw level with Premier League move

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

15 Jul 2020

With Comcast’s NBCUniversal-owned Peacock launching today (July 15th), sports fans will be excited ahead of NBCU’s repositioning of its English Premier League (EPL) rights, giving paying subscribers…

Sports Consumption
Measuring COVID-19’s Impact

Report by Alistair Taylor

10 Jul 2020

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With the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports creating an entertainment void for sports fans, understanding COVID-19’s impact on overall sports consumption and where audiences are substituting…

FuboTV adds key sporting rights to portfolio following Disney deal

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

2 Jul 2020

FuboTV, the US over-the-top (OTT) internet-delivered TV service launched back in January 2015 as a soccer-centric proposition. In that time it has established itself as a niche distributor of live streams…