Asia-Pacific

Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Adrian Staiti, head of Apac and global sales at Sportfive, explains how the agency will move forward in the region in its post-AFC rights era and under new ownership.
Athletics
Events

The Australian Football League resumed its 2020 season on Thursday evening, with defending champions Richmond Tigers drawing with Collingwood Magpies during a match played at an empty Melbourne Cricket…
Tennis
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has acquired exclusive rights in the Asia-Pacific and Mena regions to Novak Djokovic’s Adria Tour, an eight-man tennis tournament set up by the Serbian tennis s…
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has secured exclusive rights across multiple international territories to tonight’s final of the ÖFB Cup, the national knockout clubs tournament in Austria.
Media

The Lagardère Sports agency has been appointed to distribute media rights programming on behalf of the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) in the Asia-Pacific region.
Esports
Media

BeIN Media Group, the international pay-television broadcaster, has acquired rights in a number of territories to the All at Home Gaming Cup, a new esports competition launched by French Ligue 1 side Paris…
Esports
Esports

The International Esports Federation (IESF) and Asian Electronic Sports Federation (AESF) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop esports in Asia and globally
Finance & Law

The coronavirus outbreak will result in a 35-per-cent drop in sports media industry revenues in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a report by research firm Media Partners Asia
Media

Media industry research firm Media Partners Asia is predicting solid, if undramatic, growth in Asian sports television and OTT revenues, and media rights values, in the 2019-24 period, driven by international…
Events

From the way sports organisations have responded to the initial outbreak of the coronavirus, to predicting the scenarios of recovery, SportBusiness spoke to leaders and executives in the Asia-Pacific region…
Sailing
Events

The Sailing Champions League and the National Sailing League have launched the ‘Sailing Champions League – Asia Pacific’ concept following the success of the competition in Europe. T
Media

Linear pay- and free-to-air television will remain critically important for sports audiences and media rights revenues in the next five years in many Asia-Pacific markets, even as online video grows rapidly…
Football
Fan Engagement

Italian Serie A club Juventus has revealed that a digital campaign timed to coincide with its tour of Asia in July garnered 50 million video views and 790,000 engagements while the club was in the region
Table Tennis
Business

T2 Asia-Pacific Table Tennis League (T2APAC) and Dentsu Sports Asia (DSA) have entered into a landmark joint venture, through which the latter has acquired a 20-per-cent equity stake in the pan-regional…
Mixed Martial Arts
Business

Victor Cui’s ONE Championship is the biggest sports property in Asia and one of the fastest-growing in the world. In advance of his appearance at the Sportel Summit at Miami Beach in May he talks about his plans for 52 events a year and expansion in China and the rest of the world.

Table Tennis
Business

The International Table Tennis Federation has signed a collaboration agreement with the T2 Asia-Pacific Table Tennis League (T2 APAC) in a move that is set to see innovative new elements from the latter competition introduced into the ITTF’s World Tour.

Basketball
Business

Online sports apparel and merchandise retailer Fanatics has expanded its partnership with the National Basketball Association to launch official online NBA stores across 10 markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
Business

The Pacific Games Council (PGC) has formally approved Samoa as the host nation for the 2019 edition of the Pacific Games multi-sport event.