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Amazon Positions Self As One-Stop Video Shop With NFL Package

NEW YORK — In hearing Amazon executives discuss the kickoff of its Thursday Night Football streaming package next week, a few insights emerged about how the tech giant envisions its NFL coverage and what customers should expect starting with the first game on Sept. 28: The game broadcast itself won’t be materially different but may […]

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Amazon Snaps Up Tennis Rights To Stream Next Gen ATP Finals

Amazon Prime Video is an official streaming partner of the ATP World Tour and will enable worldwide distribution of the Next Gen ATP Finals, the ATP and ATP Media announced Thursday. The Next Gen ATP Finals is the season-ending tournament for the world’s best 21-and-Under players and is providing an opportunity to test new rules and […]

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NFL Game Pass Offers Fans In Europe More Than Just Streaming

To serve the increasing demand for NFL football in Europe, an enhanced NFL Game Pass subscription service was introduced across Europe prior to the start of the 2017 season. The service, brought to Europe by Overtier, an over-the-top content venture by Bruin Sports Capital and WPP, includes all NFL games with real-time statistics, streamable on […]

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EFL To Allow English Soccer Clubs To Live Stream Games On iFollow

The English Football League has announced it will allow clubs to live stream their own games in the U.K. and Ireland via the league’s own live digital streaming platform, iFollow. The EFL, the body responsible for the lower tiers of English soccer, launched iFollow in May. To date, the service has been only available to soccer fans […]

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How The Pac-12 Uses Crossposted Facebook Videos To Grow Audiences

In an attempt to grow its audience, the Pac-12 Network, a media organization owned by the 12 schools in the conference, deployed a relatively new content strategy offering from Facebook: crossposted video. Crossposted video makes it possible to share a video post across a number of pages that are managed by different owners, and then to […]

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