With Twitter’s plethora of live streaming deals in recent months (check this link to see them all), it might seem like one of the platforms that took off a year ago has faded to the background—I’m talking of course about Yahoo. But Yahoo announce an extended digital partnership before the Opening Ceremonies with NBC, allowing […]
With Manchester City inching towards a possible UEFA Champions League Final, they could be the first English team in four years to feature in the final. Yet the broadcasting corporation that holds the rights to the final in the United Kingdom has come under heavy criticism, as they are pulling a viewership that is about […]
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 […]
Beginning with the Buffalo Bills vs. Jacksonville Jaguars NFL matchup last season, Yahoo has started taking the world of sports streaming incredibly seriously. But now they have taken it up a notch higher, with a recent announcement that Yahoo Sports will be live streaming one MLB game every day for free. Get The Latest MLB […]
