DAZN Group, the sports streaming platform, has announced an agreement to acquire the Eleven Group’s global sports media businesses. The transaction, when completed, will propel DAZN to become the broadcaster of top football leagues in Portugal and Belgium. Eleven Group’s businesses will also complement DAZN’s existing positions in Italy, DACH and Spain, where DAZN holds […]
DAZN has acquired the rights to broadcast the English Football Association (FA) Women’s Super League and Women’s FA Cup for two seasons across multiple territories. The deal will see DAZN offer live and on demand access to minimum two FA Women’s Super League matches per round and multiple Women’s FA Cup games for free on […]
BritBox International has named Sarah Hird as Senior Vice President, Corporate & Consumer Communications. Reporting directly to Reemah Sakaan, CEO of BritBox International, Hird will lead BritBox International’s team of in-house and agency partners across all global regions. Hird joins BritBox International from DAZN Group, where she was Vice President, Global Communications, leading consumer, corporate, […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has acquired the exclusive rights of La Liga Profesional de Fútbol Femenino (LPFF) to broadcast the Primera División Femenina to both domestic fans and global audiences for the next five seasons (2022/23 – 2026/27). In Spain, DAZN will live stream every single championship match, with seven out of the eight […]
IBC has announced that its annual Conference and its new free Changemaker content programme will offer a full slate of industry specialist speaking on media and entertainment’s (M&E’s) most pressing technology issues, developments and innovations as it reconvenes live at the RAI Amsterdam on September 9th-12th. Bringing together some of M&Es most influential thought leaders […]
DAZN, the sports streaming service, has agreed an exclusive deal with Pitch International to broadcast six Women’s Rugby World Cup warm up matches. The matches will be streamed exclusively on DAZN in Canada and most European markets* and will see some of the most successful teams in international women’s rugby compete, ahead of the Women’s […]
In a boxing rubber match, Saul Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy ‘GGG; Golovkin, two of the Sweet Science’s all-time pound-for-pound greats, will confront each other a for a third time on September 17th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Thanks to a partnership between DAZN and Fathom Events, fight fans across the US will be […]
Reception problems for DAZN’s Italian Serie A football coverage on the opening weekend of the season have led to an outcry across Italy, including from the political world. Subscribers to the streaming platform had difficulty logging in to watch four matches of the new football season. As the problems became more widespread on August 14th, […]
Technical failures at DAZN prevented many Movistar Plus subscribers in Spain from having access to the La Liga match on August 13th between Barcelona and Rayo Vallecano, one of the five matches broadcast by the streaming platform over the weekend. Subscribers could not connect to DAZN via Movistar Plus throughout the first half as a […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has secured global rights to broadcast Hexagone MMA in the US, the UK, Mexico, Poland, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other countries globally. The agreement will see DAZN subscribers in these territories have access to watch all Hexagone MMA’s fights live and on demand on the platform until […]