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Court backs La Liga in IP blocking

A Barcelona court has fully dismissed the requests for annulment of proceedings filed by Cloudflare and RootedCON, among others, against the final judgment issued on December 18th 2024, which ordered the blocking of IP addresses used for the unlawful distribution of content belonging to La Liga. “This decision, against which no appeal may be lodged, […]

March 27, 2025

CAP welcomes Singapore site-blocking

The Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) had welcomed the Singapore High Court’s latest order to block another 22 illegal streaming sites and 70 associated domains responsible for the distribution of illegally streamed content in Singapore. The Court’s order follows on from a similar order obtained in Singapore by the Premier League in […]

February 17, 2025By Colin Mann

Mediapro, China Media Group collaboration agreement

Mediapro and China Media Group (CMG) have announced they will jointly promote collaborative projects in the field of audiovisual services, content co-production, media rights and immersive experiences. The framework agreement signed between Mediapro and CMG establishes the international activity of the Chinese media giant as preferential areas of cooperation. CMG was founded in 2018 through […]

August 1, 2024

DAZN extends LaLiga rights in Italy, Portugal

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced the extension of its exclusive LaLiga broadcast rights in Italy and Portugal. Already the broadcaster of Spain’s top flight football league domestically and in other key European markets, DAZN has renewed its contract as the exclusive rightsholder of LaLiga EA Sports in Italy and Portugal until 2029. Italian […]

April 18, 2024

Premier Sports relaunches in UK

Premier Sports has officially relaunched in the UK with a new website, app and online streaming platform while linear channels across the platforms Sky, Virgin and Amazon have been fully rebranded to Premier Sports. Effective immediately, all current customers will experience a seamless transition to Premier Sports and new customers can subscribe through the new […]

April 9, 2024

LaLiga earns Diamond Play Button on YouTube

LaLiga has become the first football league in the world to reach 10 million subscribers on YouTube, thereby earning LaLiga the distinction of Diamond Play Button, which the platform rewards when a client reaches the ten million subscribers mark. LaLiga’s YouTube channel has accumulated more than 3,000 million views. In the Sports category, only 19 […]

April 5, 2024

Spain: LaLiga demands new anti-piracy rules

LaLiga has urged Spain’s Government to approve new legislation to ban on “pirate users entry to events” in a similar legal measure to Italy. “We are lacking of that final step to put an end to massive piracy,” said Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, at a Europa Press event. “We have already been using the […]

October 20, 2023From David Del Valle in Madrid

Spain: Orange TV launches on Apple TV

Orange TV is now available on Apple TV devices in Spain giving access to its 60 TV channels offer as well as other functionalities like recording programmes, watching content from the last 7 days, start over function and multi-device viewing. In addition, Orange has launched two new channels – LaLiga + and Nautical Channel – […]

October 18, 2023From David Del Valle in Madrid

LaLiga channels continue to grow following rebrand

LaLiga’s corporate channels continue to post strong growth since being set up in January earlier this year. Less than a year on from creation, the X (formerly Twitter) account has almost 160,000 followers, more than the corporate accounts of other leading sports institutions such as the NFL, NHL and MLS. The Telegram channel, meanwhile, has […]

October 10, 2023

LaLiga Experience 2023/24 kicks off with new features

LaLiga Experience is back for another year. The project, designed to support LaLiga’s international broadcast rights holders, will begin on Matchday 9 of the LaLiga EA Sports season for the fixture between Granada CF and FC Barcelona. The initiative celebrates its eighth campaign, and provides TV partners with unique content and prizes for their viewers, […]

October 6, 2023