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Sky takes piracy shot at Amazon

Sky has accused Amazon of not doing enough to stop piracy of its sports rights via so-called ‘jailbroken’ Fire Sticks. Sky’s group COO, Nick Herm, said that illegal viewing of its subscription content, which includes Premier League football, Formula 1 and boxing, was costing “hundreds of millions of dollars” and “about half” was through manipulated […]

February 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

Sky Business, Admiral Taverns extend partnership

Sky Business, Sky’s B2B arm and Admiral Taverns, the community pub group, have agreed a new multi-year, multi-product deal. The new agreement will extend the existing partnership to provide Sky TV to 200 more Admiral Taverns pubs, under its community wet led operator division, Proper Pubs. The new deal will see the roll out of […]

February 10, 2025

TNT Sports appoints Thomas as Head of Football

Pete Thomas will join TNT Sports as its new Head of Football on March 1st. He joins from production house Whisper. In a broadcasting career spanning two decades, Thomas has worked across a host of sports and major sporting events including Premier League football, European football, rugby and NFL. He moved to Whisper from Noah […]

January 21, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Canal+ scores exclusive EPL rights in Poland, Myanmar

Canal+, already a Premier League (EPL) partner in over 50 countries, will becomes the exclusive broadcaster of the competition for the 2025/2026, 2026/2027 and 2027/2028 seasons in Poland, the second largest market for the Group, as well as in Myanmar. Starting next season, in both countries, Canal+ will broadcast all 380 games per season from […]

December 16, 2024

K+ supercharges OTT monetisation with Broadpeak

Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators, has announced that VSTV — also known as K+, a pay-TV operator based in Vietnam — is using Broadpeak’s server-side ad insertion (SSAI) technology to monetise its live channels and new AVoD service. The personalised ad insertion […]

December 11, 2024

Broadcast team revealed for Prime Video’s EPL fixtures

Premier League action returns to Prime Video in the UK this week for a festive feast of football, including 20 live and exclusive matches across two full fixture rounds in December. The action begins on December 3rd when Ipswich Town take on Crystal Palace from 7.30pm, with a further nine fixtures taking place across the […]

December 2, 2024

Prime Video orders more Married To The Game

Prime Video has announced a second season of hit reality docuseries, Married To The Game, which will feature some familiar faces from serason one, including Jorginho and Cat Harding, and Riyad Mahrez and Taylor Ward. Three new Premier League couples have joined the cast, Marc Cucurella and Claudia Rodríguez, Gabriel Magalhães and Gabrielle Figueiredo, and […]

November 29, 2024

Premier League bringing international media ops in-house

At a Premier League Shareholders’ meeting, clubs have unanimously agreed that the Premier League will establish a new in-house media operations business. Launching for the start of Season 2026/27, the Premier League will bring all international media content production and distribution in-house. Since 2004, this service has been provided in partnership with IMG, operating as […]

November 22, 2024

Television ad spend for sports betting: Are big budgets leading to big returns?

In the fiercely competitive sports betting industry, advertising plays a vital role in gaining visibility and staying ahead of the competition. Whether it’s UK-based Gamstop sites known for their strict regulations or non-Gamstop betting sites that offer greater flexibility, enhanced gaming options, and attractive bonuses, evidenced in John Smith’s review, one thing remains consistent across […]

October 15, 2024