Sports streaming technology company Deltatre’s co-founder and chief executive officer Giampiero Rinaudo, and Adam Nightingale, senior vice president of commercial in the OTT division, discuss how the company and its clients can learn from the current dearth of live sport, readying them for its return.
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Premier League and Sky ‘agree deferral of £170m rights rebate’
The English Premier League has is said to have secured an agreement with its domestic rights-holder, pay-television broadcaster Sky, meaning clubs will be able to defer the payment of a collective rebate…
Pay dispute looms as Cricket Australia revenue forecast falls 48 per cent
Cricket Australia has produced a revised forecast for its 2020-21 revenue with a 48-per-cent drop on the pre-Covid-19 figure of A$461m ($317m/€283m). The new forecasted revenue is A$239.7m.
Roger Duthie: “The current situation is like the labour stoppages in MLB and NHL”
Sponsorship consultant Roger Duthie give his thoughts on the approach of brands to sponsorship during the Covid-19 crisis.
Steve Davis, Fanatics international – Lack of nimble production and distribution has hamstrung a $25 billion industry
Highlights of Fanatics International president Steve Davis in conversation at the Sports Decision Makers Summit in London, July 2019.
Deltatre launches new OTT user behaviour technology
Sports streaming technology company Deltatre has launched mtribes, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology that will allow media outlets running a multi-platform digital or OTT service to identify…
Tribe Sports Marketing secures stake in Sweden’s Sportswik in long-term tie-up
Tribe Sports Marketing, the boutique sports agency created in 2019, has acquired a minority stake in Sportswik as part of a wider long-term agreement with the Swedish sports technology company
Korean sports tech funding programme invites applications
The Korea Sports Promotion Corporation, a government body, is inviting companies involved in developing sports technology to apply for funding from a KRW7.8bn ($6.4m) pool
Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch to be powered by hydrogen
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay will use hydrogen fuel at certain stages as part of the organisers' efforts to hold an environmentally friendly Games
Technology firms and entrepreneurs position themselves for the return of fans to stadiums
SportBusiness examines the pros and cons of some of the equipment available to reassure fans and reduce the risk of contagion when they are allowed back into sport stadiums.
World TeamTennis poised to set significant precedent for staging events in front of fans
Mixed-gender professional tennis league will hold its entire season at The Greenbrier in West Virginia this summer, becoming one of the first sports events in US to be held in front of limited spectators. Bob Williams reports.
Organised, timely and efficient: German football shows the way out of lockdown
There have been positive tests, protocol breaches and postponements, but nothing has been able to derail the project.
Coca-Cola’s Ricardo Fort: Tokyo Olympics next year set to be “great sign of the recovery of the world”
Ricardo Fort, who as Coca-Cola vice-president of global sports partnerships oversees one of the largest sports sponsorship portfolios in the entire world, discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the prospects of recovery.