Global

Football
Media

The Spring Media agency has agreed a multi-year deal with Paris Saint-Germain to distribute the club's International Programme Block internationally
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Wave Sports + Entertainment, the California-based digital sports media company, has recruited Seth Brody as its director of rights partnerships
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations has reshaped its senior leadership by promoting James Carr to the new role of deputy executive director
Multiple Sports
Licensing & Merchandising

Dramatic deal arrives less than five months after acquisition of MLB, MLBPA rights
Golf
Governance

US golfer says he is in line to gain $8m top prize
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Varun Sudhakar, co-founder and chief executive of sports betting platform startup BetDEX. Fisher and Russo also discuss ongoing challenges in the sports industry due to the Covid-19 pandemic, preview forthcoming developments in 2022 in the team acquisition, media rights, and sports betting sectors, and they remember recently deceased National Football League icon John Madden.
Multiple Sports
Media

uniqFEED's chief executive offers his thoughts on how the transition from linear to IP and OTT consumption will continue to change the broadcast and advertising business in 2022 and beyond.
Motorsport
Events

Organisers of the Extreme E electric off-road motor racing series have revealed the championship’s calendar for its second season in 2022. 
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Huddersfield Town, the second-tier English football club, has signed up gambling platform BK8 as a sponsor
Modern Pentathlon
Governance

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has named industry heavyweights Terrence Burns, David Hill, Peter Hutton and Michael Payne as members of its working group that will help shape the future…
Football
Data

Betting data services company Sportradar has agreed a five-year extension to its international betting data and streaming rights distribution agreement with Germany’s Bundesliga.
Triathlon
Industry Moves

Experienced broadcast executive Peter Hutton, the director of sports partnerships at Meta, has joined the board of directors at the Professional Triathletes Organisation
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Payment services brand Visa has become the first-ever ‘Fifa Women’s Football Partner’, a new designation, effective in 2023, created as part of the international federation’s newly-launched sponsorship structu…
Football
Events

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has said “probably the majority” would back the men’s and women’s World Cups moving to a biennial hosting model, but refused to commit to a voting date as world footbal…
NFL
Sponsorship & Marketing

The National Football League and Anheuser-Busch InBev have secured a multiyear extension of their long-standing deal which designates the brewing company the global exclusive beer and hard seltzer sponsor…
Football
Media

Spain’s competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has said that some Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) proposals for the commercialisation of broadcast rights fo…
Motorsport
Sponsorship & Marketing

Formula 1 team Red Bull Racing has announced security operations provider Arctic Wolf as the latest addition to its sponsorship portfolio
Hockey
Data

Sportradar has continued its recent run of agreements with international federations in a nine-year betting data rights agreement with the International Hockey Federation (FIH)