Together, the companies provide OTT streaming, highlights, behind-the-scenes and archive video football content, news, scores and statistics. Football media specialist OneFootball has acquired football content platform Dugout to form what it says is the world’s largest owned and operated digital football media business. Together the businesses offer live OTT streaming, highlights, behind-the-scenes and archive video […]
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COMMENT: Enhancing fan engagement during lockdown
Ian Sharpe, CEO of Promethean TV, on the efforts being made by the sports industry and sports TV to encourage and enhance fan engagement during lockdown, and some things that haven’t worked. When we launched Promethean TV in 2016, the year 2020 seemed remote – a date with which to conjure the future. We talked […]
Whisper recruits Stuart Cope as director of digital and social
He will help lead the sports producer’s multi-platform content for clients such as the FA, ECB and Channel 4’s F1. Whisper has taken on Stuart Cope as director of digital and social. He previously led digital and social content for ATP Tour and Indian Premier League club, The Rajasthan Royals, and has held roles at […]
LTA launches tennis mini-series with British Olympian Aimee Fuller
The first episode in the six-part series is live now on IGTV, Facebook and YouTube. The National Governing Body of tennis for Great Britain (LTA) has launched a six-part digital mini-series called The Showdown, with British Olympian Aimee Fuller. Designed for social platforms, the series will run across LTA and influencer channels over the next […]
NHL to remotely produce live and behind-the-scenes content using Blackbird
Quick turnaround content will be streamed on its digital and social outlets, and distributed internally for re-purposing. The National Hockey League (NHL) is remotely producing live and behind-the-scenes content as it returns to live sport, using cloud video editing platform Blackbird. For the NHL’s 2020 Stanley Cup Qualifiers and 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the NHL […]
Sports Content Summit: How the FA integrated esports into its digital channels
FA senior content innovations manager, Damien Cullen, explained how the governing body has revolutionised its digital output, at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit The FA has seen its online output grow in popularity and quality in recent years, and this has been in part thanks to its tie in with esports competitions. Speaking at the […]
Sports Content Summit: Liverpool FC on how to design digital content as a club
The club has seen major growth online with through its social media channels Speaking at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit this month, Liverpool FC head of social media, Adam Hulme, and head of digital video, Mark Volante, revealed how the club thinks when designing content for fans. The club has seen major growth in followers […]
Bowls Premier League ramps up digital coverage
Australia’s fast-action bowls tournament created live social video highlight clips to help attract a new, younger audience to bowls. The Bowls Premier League (BPL), held in Moama, New South Wales, Australia last month, used cloud-based live video production platform Grabyo to create, edit and deliver real-time social video highlights. The highlight clips were used to […]
Spearheading a cloud video editing revolution
SPONSORED: Blackbird is setting its sights on global domination through its patented, ultra-fast cloud video editing and publishing platform The proposition promised by Blackbird is simple enough – to provide a workstation experience in the cloud – yet it’s an objective almost impossibly complex to achieve. It means matching the capability and functionality of a […]