Earlier this week, Twitter’s shares dropped 10 percent as the company missed analyst expectations for their first quarter’s revenue. The social media platform still had year-over-year and user base growth, but they fell short of Wall Street speculation. “Revenue came in at the low end of our guidance range because brand marketers did not increase spend as […]
Gareth Capon is CEO of Grabyo, the leading provider of social video production and publishing tools for premium rights holders, brands and publishers and a partner of both Facebook and Twitter. For many years rights owners have anticipated that the next generation of buyers for their rights will be technology platforms such such as Facebook, […]
Last season, the NFL experimented with live streaming for the first time by selling the broadcasting rights for the International Series Buffalo Bills vs. Jacksonville Jaguars game in London to Yahoo. The NFL held the stream up as a success, counting 15.2 million unique viewers during the course of the game. But with three International […]
After long rumored interest in the NFL’s digital rights, it has finally become official; Twitter has won the digital streaming rights for NFL games during the 2016 season. Twitter will stream the 10 Thursday Night Football games this year that are aired by NBC and CBS, and will also be simulcasted on the NFL Network […]
In the past, if America’s best rugby players wanted to get paid, they would have had to go to another country like England or Australia. But thanks to the Professional Rugby Association, or PRO Rugby, that is no more. The new league will begin this year, featuring an initial five teams—in San Francisco, San Diego, […]
