Disney+ has announced a one-year deal with The Overlap as the headline sponsor of both its popular original show Stick to Football and new original format Stick to United with Wayne Rooney covering the upcoming 2026/2027 football season. Stick to Football, hosted by Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jill Scott, Ian Wright and Roy Keane, features […]
Spain’s top-flight women’s football competition, Liga F, has failed to award its domestic TV rights after bids submitted in the first round fell short of the €7 million-a-season reserve price. Liga F has consequently launched a second round of bidding for its audiovisual rights for the 2026/27 season and beyond, with interested broadcasters and platforms […]
According to Nielsen’s proprietary data, 28.6 billion minutes of women’s sports were consumed in the US in the first half of 2026 (January-June), up 18 per cent on H1 2025. In addition, advertising spend on women sports is up +120 per cent since 2022. The explosion of women’s sports into the mainstream is no longer […]
Virgin Media O2 has added Tennis Channel to its streaming TV line-up at no extra cost. Available to Virgin TV customers directly via their set-top box on channel 542, the new channel offers viewers 24/7 access to a range of tennis content and competitions – including the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup, as […]
US media groups have filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump over his social media company’s decision to sell faster access to the President’s market-moving posts on Truth Social. The Intercept Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, filed in federal court, seeks to prevent Trump from posting official government information exclusively on […]
Total retail and wholesale fixed broadband connections reached an estimated 29.37 million at the end of Q2 2026, up just 1,000 quarter-on-quarter from 29.36 million and marking the flattest headline quarter in Point Topic’s recent tracking. Consumer segments accounted for approximately 27.06 million connections, down 9,310 in the quarter, while retail business connections rose to […]
United Group and its media business, United Media, has announced the renewal of its deal with LaLiga, bringing Spain’s top-flight football competition back to Sport Klub in Croatia and Slovenia. Under the new four-year agreement, Sport Klub will exclusively broadcast all 380 LaLiga matches each season through the end of the 2029/30 season. Stephen Nuttall, […]
A formal filing from SpaceX says that the Elon Musk-owned rocket company will attempt to return its Starship test flight #14 to its launch pad in South Texas, and to catch both the rocket’s main stage and booster with the launch tower’s ‘chopsticks’. The details come from a public application SpaceX filed with the FCC, […]
TNT Sports and its streaming home, HBO Max, are readying to deliver more than 700 live football matches across the Premier League, Emirates FA Cup, Women’s FA Cup, UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Conference League and Serie A for the 2026/27 season. Fronting the line-up this season is Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard, who expands his […]
Holywater Tech, the AI-first technology company behind vertical streaming platform My Drama, in partnership with management consulting firm Owl & Co, has released The State of Microdrama 2026. The report combines proprietary product data and behavioral insights from My Drama and My Muse (Holywater Tech’s platform for vertical series produced with the support of generative […]
Despite having access to more campaign data than ever before, 80 per cent of marketers admit they do not fully understand why their advertising campaigns succeed or fail, according to polling by Brand Lift measurement company On Device. The research, conducted among over 250 advertising professionals, points to a growing confidence gap in campaign measurement. […]
A report from investment bank Clear Street says that AST SpaceMobile is going to be a cash-flow machine over the next 10 years as revenues ramp up to impressive levels. The bank says that by 2034, AST could be reporting annual revenues of $7 billion (€6.07bn) and enjoying a gross profit margin of 73 per […]
There’s a lot of panic in the air about AI just now, even President DJT seems to be rethinking the need for some regulation. The trouble is that some experimental agents have gone off and, unasked, tried to hack other’s systems. In truth, the main issue seems to be the ‘move fast and break things’ […]