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DAZN Women’s Football YouTube channel hits 1m followers

DAZN has announced that its Women’s Football YouTube channel is now followed by one million fans and has received 2.8 billion impressions since launch. DAZN Women’s Football acts as an effective marketing channel for DAZN’s free on-platform women’s football environment, enabling viewers to discover the game before transitioning to the DAZN platform for unrestricted access […]

November 25, 2024

DAZN partners with EuroLeague Women

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, and FIBA Europe have announced DAZN as the global broadcast partner for action from EuroLeague Women this season. Europe’s top women’s basketball competition, EuroLeague Women, sees 16 clubs from across the continent compete across an autumn-spring league. The format for the competition was recently revamped ahead of the 2024-25 season, […]

November 19, 2024

WBD, TNT Sports launch Reframe the Game initiative

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) Access, the development programme for under-represented creatives, and TNT Sports have launched Reframe the Game, a new initiative created to give women filmmakers the opportunity to tell untold stories from across women’s sport. The programme invites women filmmakers and directors to share a short documentary concept in response to the prompt […]

November 6, 2024

WSL extends Sky, BBC deals

The Women’s Professional Leagues Limited (WPLL) has agreed the biggest broadcast partnership yet for women’s football in the UK & Ireland following a new rights agreement with Sky and BBC Sport. The new deal sees both broadcasters commit to the Barclays Women’s Super League (WSL) for a further five years in a deal worth a […]

October 30, 2024By Nik Roseveare

ITV extends Lionesses deal

ITV has agreed a new four-year record deal with The FA as they will continue to be the home of the Lionesses from 2025-2029. The deal will see the broadcaster air all of the England senior women’s teams qualifying fixtures for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 and UEFA Women’s Euro 2029, as well as […]

October 29, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Women’s sport pays off for advertisers

GroupM, the WPP buying agency, says it has “exceeded” its goal to double the annual media spend on women’s sports programming. It had announced its intention to double its spend in the area earlier this year, in connection to the NCAA women’s college basketball tournament, which drew record-breaking ratings. Now it says it past that […]

October 29, 2024

BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year 2024 nominees announced

BBC World Service has announced the shortlist for the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year 2024 award. Now celebrating its tenth year, BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year award sees an expert panel made up of current and former professionals, coaches and journalists nominate their top five players over the past year. The footballers shortlisted […]

October 15, 2024

Limitless powers Premiership Women’s Rugby

Limitless Broadcast, a provider of full remote and cloud content services, has kicked off the new Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) season with production company Buzz 16, showcasing a raft of innovations that elevates the coverage to new heights and supporting the new PWR vision to showcase how their athletes are “powered differently”. Building on the […]

October 11, 2024

Liber8, Mantis launch digital marketplace for women’s sport

Mantis, a provider of brand safety and contextual advertising solutions, has announced a  partnership with Liber8, a specialist digital women’s sports content and media company, to help power Liber8 Curate, a UK digital women’s sports content marketplace. Leveraging Mantis’ AI-driven contextual targeting technology, this collaboration aims to transform how brands engage with women’s sports audiences, offering […]

September 25, 2024