TVision, the company measuring TV and CTV viewer engagement, and FuboTV, the US sports-first live TV streaming platform, have revealed that Fubo ads outperform average attention across CTV apps and linear, capturing more attention among 24-54 year olds than all other benchmarks. According to insights gleaned from TVision’s passive CTV viewing panel, Fubo audiences are […]

Eight co-signatories (Fubo, DISH Networks, DirecTV, Newsmax and public interest groups Sports Fans Coalition, American Economic Liberties Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Markets Institute) have sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging their Committees hold hearings on the future of competition in pay-TV. In the letter, they write “Recent developments in the pay-TV market […]

FuboTV, the sports-first live TV streaming platform, has reported its financial results for the first quarter. Fubo says it exceeded expectations in North America, closing Q1 with double digit year-over-year (YoY) growth, delivering 1.511 million paid subscribers, up 18 per cent YoY, and $394 million (€366.6m) in total revenue, up 24 per cent YoY. The […]

Fubo, the sports-first live TV streaming platform, has failed to renew its content agreement with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) for networks including Discovery, HGTV, Food Network and TLC, among others, and to obtain licence rights for its Turner sports networks TNT, TBS and truTV. Fubo said offered WBD market rates for its content and, despite […]

FuboTV, the sports-first live TV streaming platform, has announced during the IAB NewFronts a suite of four new CTV ad units, expanding the volume and variety of the company’s ad offerings. Fubo says its new ad inventory is indicative of its continued innovation – the virtual MVPD has historically been first to market with both […]

A preliminary injunction hearing in Fubo’s antitrust lawsuit against a new US sports streaming platform from ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery has been scheduled for August 7th at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Fubo filed its lawsuit against the as-yet unnamed service back in February, alleging that the […]

The Yankee Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network, the US pay-TV regional sports broadcaster, and FuboTV, the sports-first live streaming platform, have reached a multi-year agreement by which Fubo is launching YES in its Pro base channel plan in time for YES’ coverage of the New York Yankees’ Season Opener against the Houston Astros. “Fubo is […]

FuboTV, the US sports-focused streaming platform, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company, Fox., Warner Bros Discovery and their affiliates, alleging that the companies have engaged in a years-long campaign to block Fubo’s streaming business resulting in significant harm to both Fubo and consumers. The complaint alleges that the forthcoming launch of […]

Fubo has seen its stock price dump more than 20 per cent since Disney, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery announced their JV plan to bundle their linear sports networks in a live-streamed service. “We have already seen that a consortium born of historical competitors is a difficult undertaking, and streaming joint ventures rarely work,” Fubo […]

FuboTV, the sports-first live TV streaming platform, has launched Instant Headlines, a beta feature that generates contextual news topics as they are reported live on air. Designed to help Fubo consumers make better viewing decisions in real-time, Instant Headlines surfaces current programming topics and highlights them – in 10 words or less – in the […]