NBC Sports Digital is starting a new tech service, Playmaker Media, that will give the company a video live streaming service. The service’s first partner is the International Olympic Committee and it will be streaming the summer Olympics and other major events like the presidential election coverage. The goal of the service is to allow NBC […]
On May 18th 2016, BT Sport in the UK streamed the Europa League Final for free on its YouTube channel. The move signaled a shift in how broadcasters will provide their customers with content. The deal BT Sport struck with the Google owned online video platform provided the broadcaster with record audiences for Europe’s second […]
For as long as sports have been the world’s primary source of entertainment, their officials — from umpires to referees to judges — have made (or neglected to make) subjective calls, which regularly cause discord throughout the sports world. The introduction of large-scale instant replay in recent years, though, has done much to alleviate this […]
In an era that has made almost every mainstream sport viewable from a seemingly infinite number of devices, it may be difficult to believe that one of the fastest-growing sports in the world is… unconventional, to say the least. But eSports (shorthand for electronic sports, which are “a form of sport where the primary aspects […]
Five years ago, few people would have expected an app which only temporarily shows photos and videos to become a staple of twenty-first century society. Nevertheless, after just over four years of existence, Snapchat has cemented itself as not only a vehicle for people to send obnoxious selfies and funny videos back and forth, but also […]
