Wearable company Fitbit and the Minnesota Timberwolves have inked a three-year partnership, making the San Francisco-based company the Official Wearable and Official Sleep Tracker of the NBA franchise along with the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx and the NBA Gatorade League affiliate Iowa Wolves. As part of the broader sponsorship deal — which will include branding via […]
One million. It’s a number that grabbed the attention of Sportsnet New York (SNY) President Steve Raab earlier this year. The regional sports network experimented with Overtime, a cross-platform technology startup built around high school and youth content, for the SNY Invitational. Overtime produced content for the annual two-day New York high school basketball tournament in […]
The San Francisco 49ers have incorporated Zeality’s Immersive Media Engine into their mobile app, including a Re/Lives feature that enables fans to record and share their viewing perspective and reactions to watching 360-degree videos and VR content. The 49ers on their app have a VR/360 section for fans to view videos, and that currently includes […]
The New York Jets unveiled a new tier of season passes on Thursday that offer the NFL’s first season-long mobile-ticketing subscription service. Jets Boarding Pass is a $725 package that allows fans to sit in a different seat each time they attend a 2017 home game, which includes 10 games between preseason and regular season. […]
NEW YORK — The ultimatum had been made by Daniel Sobhani and his handful of teammates at health and fitness app Freeletics: make money or move on. “We were very close to killing the project then,” recalls Sobhani of the Munich, Germany-based bootstrapped startup during a media tour. That was early 2013, when Sobhani — the company’s […]
