The WePlay Esports media holding company and sports streaming platform, DAZN, have announced a partnership for the 2021 WePlay Ultimate Fighting League (WUFL). DAZN’s coverage of the tournament will be available on its global platform in 200+ countries and territories, for viewing on a range of handheld and living room devices. The tournament will be […]
Sports streaming platform DAZN has partnered with the Formula One team Scuderia AlphaTauri for the 2021 F1 season and signed Yuki Tsunoda as a brand ambassador in Japan. Tsunoda will wear DAZN branding on his cap, having become the first Japanese driver in seven years, to deepen and enrich its coverage of the competition for […]
Global sports streaming platform operator DAZN Group has appointed Kevin Mayer as Chairman of the Board of Directors. With more than three decades of executive experience in the media industry, DAZN says that Mayer will provide strategic direction to its leadership team as the company continues along its aggressive growth trajectory. Mayer was previously Chairman […]
LG Electronics has announced the availability of its popular webOS TV platform ecosystem to other TV brand partners, disrupting the status quo in an industry known for its proprietary operating systems across different manufacturers. LG is now expanding its expertise beyond TV manufacturing to encompass webOS TV software platform development and adoption by other TV […]
Telecom Italia has reached an agreement with DAZN to provide backing in its bid to obtain the TV rights to Italian Serie A football for the 2021-2024 seasons. The deal, subject to conditions, would see Telecom Italia providing distribution and technological support to the streaming platform, in addition to around €1 billion in financing, according […]
The Milan derby on February 21st, that saw Inter Milan beat AC Milan by three goals to nil, attracted a record audience to DAZN in Italy. More than 2.2 million watched DAZN’s exclusive live coverage of the Serie A match in Italy, of which 50 per cent streamed the event. The new record audience comfortably […]
The Premier League, Serie A and La Liga should come to market for their domestic media rights in 2021. The tender results for the Premier League, always considered as a gauge of the sports broadcasting market dynamics, will be even more closely scrutinised this year, at a time of a global pandemic, reports market research […]
Italy’s Serie A has turned down Spanish group Mediapro’s bid for the football TV rights to the Italian League for the 2021-2024 period. With Eurosport also excluded, Sky and DAZN are the main remaining bidders. Sky has offered €750 million for the whole rights, whereas DAZN has submitted the highest bid for around €840 million […]
Vodafone returned posted positive numbers in Q3 inspite of poor performance in some big markets. In Germany and Spain, in particular, its pay-TV offerings came to the rescue. In Germany the group added 98,000 cable broadband customers, including 35,000 migrations from DSL. Overall, the company’s broadband base was up 56,000 to 10.9 million. That helped […]
LFP has admitted failure in the re-tender process for French football league 1 and 2 rights. The bidding was opened following the cancellation of Mediapro’s deal in December 2020 but was doomed when Canal+ boycotted the process. Bids from rivals Amazon, DAZN and Eurosport failed to reach the reserve price. The LFP now is giving […]