Significant job cuts have been announced at both Mediapro and Telefónica in Spain. Telefónica is preparing to shed more than 6,000 employees across seven of its subsidiaries — including Telefónica de España, Telefónica Móviles, Telefónica Soluciones, Movistar+, Telefónica S.A., and Telefónica Global Solutions — as negotiations begin on a series of redundancy plans. The proposed […]
Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga says it is awaiting the European Commission strengthening its Recommendation on combatting online piracy of sports and other live events, following the conclusions presented on November 20th. These conclusions are the result of thorough monitoring by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), which acknowledged the Recommendation’s ineffectiveness, the […]
La Liga and the NFL are furthering their partnership in announcing an official NFL regular-season game can be watched for free, live on La Liga’s official YouTube channel. On November 16th (3:30pm, Spain time), the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Commanders will face off at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium as part of the NFL Madrid […]
Spain’s Committee on Economic Affairs, Trade and Digital Transformation of the Spanish Congress of Deputies has held a debate and vote on a Non-Legislative Proposal (PNL) concerning dynamic IP address blocking in the context of the fight against audiovisual fraud. As a result of the vote, the PNL in question was not approved, thereby supporting […]
Chinese media giant Orient Hontai, the majority shareholder of Mediapro, has replaced the company’s long-serving president and CEO Tatxo Benet with Sergio Oslé, the former president of Movistar+ and later CEO of Telefónica España, reports El Confidencial. Benet, who has led Mediapro for more than a decade, reached a mutual agreement with the board to […]
Combined spending on new sponsorship deals and renewals across the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 has reached $1.1 billion (€0.94bn) only three months into the 2025/26 football season, according to analysis from Ampere Analysis. The report breaks down which sectors and brands are fuelling growth and where momentum is stalling. […]
TikTok and La Liga, the Spanish football league, have announced the renewal of their partnership agreement, maintaining the platform’s role as a priority partner for innovation in digital content for the competition. The renewal of the agreement will see La Liga continue to offer exclusive content designed specifically for TikTok’s ecosystem – including key moments […]
A report by Grant Thornton, produced in collaboration with the Live Content Coalition, reveals that illegal streaming of sports and other live events continues to rise, reinforcing that piracy remains one of the main threats to rights holders. Two years after the European Commission published its Recommendation to combat this issue, the data shows that […]
In a new decisive step in the fight against organised crime in the audiovisual industry, a massive operation in Argentina has dismantled a criminal network with up to 8 million paying users worldwide and a potential reach of over 20 million clients. The operation, led by the Argentine judiciary, involved technical collaboration from La Liga, […]
Mercado Libre, an e-commerce and payments technology company in Latin America, and La Liga – Spain’s professional football league – have confirmed the incorporation of the Spanish competition into the Mercado Libre Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance (MACA). This strategic alliance seeks to strengthen the protection of audiovisual rights in the region and fight audiovisual fraud, particularly online […]