Twitter wants to be taken seriously as a major player in sports. The social media site announced new content collaborations on Monday with a number of leagues and sports media companies, headlined by ESPN through an elaborate content and revenue-sharing partnership with The Walt Disney Company. Twitter and Disney said they plan to work closely […]
Nicholas Horbaczewski has made one thing clear: drone racing will be a global sport. On Thursday, the Drone Racing League and founder Horbaczewski announced a five-year extension to their partnership with Allianz. The European financial services company originally linked up with the DRL last year, adding drone racing to a slate of sports sponsorships that includes […]
Streaming sports online can sometimes come with a heavy price. That’s what a British man named Waqas Rasheed discovered last week when he was found guilty of infringing the copyright of Europe’s Sky satellite TV network. Like most television networks that carry live sports coverage, Sky pays billions of dollars to professional leagues and clubs […]
The NFL has announced a renewal of its partnership with Amazon to stream the Thursday Night Football package over Prime Video. These games once again will have a tri-cast distribution model of broadcast network (Fox is taking over for CBS and NBC this fall), cable (NFL Network) and digital (Amazon). Twitter was the first carrier of this […]
NBA Golden State Warriors sharpshooter Steph Curry is relaunching his YouTube channel after a four-year hiatus with a new web series called 5 Minutes From Home. In a trailer video posted to his account on Wednesday, Curry said the short-form show, which begins May 1, will include interviews with a revolving set of surprise guests, […]
