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Sports broadcasting is ripe for disruption…and creators know it

Blog post by Ben Woods

4 Apr 2023

The former Barcelona footballer Gerard Pique made a surprising claim last month (March 2023). To promote his Twitch football channel, the Kings League, the retired centre back unfurled a giant banner in...

Why the sports broadcast model is now under threat

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

6 Nov 2020

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair

sports broadcast

The Sinclair Broadcast Group reported its Q3 2020 results earlier this week, which highlighted the detrimental impact sporting investments had on its balance sheet. A 37% year-on-year (YoY) increase in...

Foxtel, diversifying for reach, launches freemium Kayo service

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

28 Oct 2020

foxtel

News Corporation

Kayo

Australian pay-TV organisation Foxtel is launching a free version of its sport-centric streaming service Kayo in 2021. This follows a difficult year for the streaming service that saw its subscriber numbers...

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

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

Universal platform

Fortnite

Epic Games

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...

TwitchSports: Amazon throws sports into the starting line-up

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

29 Jul 2020

Video

Sports

Games

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...

Six Nations Behind a Paywall: Can Rugby Afford to Bench Free-To-Air?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

6 Mar 2020

business model

consumption habits

cricket

Six Nations organisers are reportedly considering awarding the exclusive distribution rights for its annual competition to pay-TV operator Sky, in an unprecedented £300 ($384) million deal. Organisers...

Keeping with the Times: Sports Plays Catch-Up with Younger Digital Audiences

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

27 Jan 2020

digital natives

e-sports

gamers

Sports as a product is feeling the squeeze of the peak attention economy. Sports fans in the traditional sense are ageing, and appealing to a younger digitally-native audience is a fundamental issue that...

BT Sport’s Key Ingredient for Competing in an Increasingly Saturated Landscape

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

22 Nov 2019

American football

basketball

broadcast audience

The strategic dilemma as to whether rights holders should seek revenue over reach when allocating domestic rights is inevitably impacted by how dependent services are on premium rights for securing subscriber...

Why Short Form Content Resonates with Younger Generations

Blog post by Amanda Stears

2 Oct 2019

China

digital natives

douyin

Digital natives – be they classified as millennials or generation Z – have always had the term “instant gratification” associated with them. This is a reflection of the way technology has shaped...

Big Brother Axed By Channel 5, But It Is Not All Bad News For Endemol

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2018

Big brother

Channel 4

Channel 5

Dutch production house Endemol is no longer going to be making cult reality TV show Big Brother for Viacom’s UK terrestrial channel, Channel 5. It announced that it was “disappointed not to reach an...

The Imminent Launch Of Comic-Con HQ Highlights The Trend Towards Online Video Fragmentation

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

17 Mar 2016

comic-con

comic-con hq

digital natives

On March 14th, Comic-Con and Lionsgate jointly announced the imminent launch of Comic-Con HQ a new SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) service. The new platform will allow Beta access on the 7th of May...

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: 16-24 Year Old's Mobile Video Usage

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Oct 2015

Data Point Of The Day

digital natives

Mobile content

43% of US 16-24 year olds watch TV shows on phones and tablets. 16-24 year olds are the first generation to engage in multi-screen viewing. TV viewing viewing for the Digital Native is as much about convenience...

The Digitally Native Music Consumer

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Aug 2015

digital music

digital natives

free music

MIDiA Research has published a new report looking at the music attitudes and behavior of Digital Natives. The report “The Digitally Native Music Consumer: A Digital Native Music Behaviour Deep Dive”...