The sports media world currently is abuzz over Twitter’s and Sports Illustrated’s live stream of the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” this week, and rightly so. While ther... More
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Did You Love Twitter’s NFL Stream? There’s More Where That Came From (The Cauldron)
With Wearable Tech Deals, New Player Data Is Up for Grabs (New York Times)
As debates about athletes’ rights intensify in big-time college sports, the next frontier, independent experts say, could be privacy issues related to wearable tech, which in com... More
IBC 2016: IBM Cloud Video’s Clevinger Explains How Watson Automates Closed Captioning at US Open (SVG)
David Clevinger: "The power of the cloud is that it gives you the flexibility to grow over time in a way that’s much more graceful than having something that’s local. The sport... More
How the NFL and its Stadiums became Leaders in Wi-Fi, Monetizing Apps, and Customer Experience (TechRepublic)
The need for more data capacity is especially being driven by people using devices with better cameras. Instead of photos being taken at 8 megapixels, as they were just two years a... More
Amazon Said to Seek Sports Video Rights From Tennis to Rugby (Bloomberg)
Amazon.com Inc. is pursuing video rights to a wide range of sports, including the French Open tennis championship and professional rugby, as the company looks for ways to draw new ... More
The Telegraph Built a Tool that Auto-Creates Graphics of Premier League Goals (Digiday)
The Telegraph has made changes to its sports data-visualization tool so interactive graphics are created and published on site automatically each time a football goal is scored. �... More
Boston Bruins Aim for Home Ice Advantage with SAS Analytics
The ice at TD Garden, home of the Boston Bruins, is about to get cooler. The Boston Bruins organization, one of the original six teams of the National Hockey League, along with TD ... More
The Evolution Of Sports Consumption In The Digital Age (Wazee Digital Blog)
Sports and Live Events properties are creating more content than ever. The ease with which anybody can shoot, edit, and post video, in combination with the explosion of social med... More
Lessons From Rio, as Live Events Make the Leap to Streaming (New York Times)
In this era of cord-cutting and streaming services, there has remained one constant for television networks and advertisers looking to draw a crowd: live events. Millions of Americ... More
The Digitisation of the Premier League Brand (The Drum)
Given how consumption and fan engagement have evolved, the biggest value to the Premier League (outside of broadcast) is around the ability to package and deliver stats, fantasy pr... More
Why Your Top Draft Pick This Year Should Be Big Data (HPE Matter)
Today, sensors are everywhere. Name the sport. For pro football, they’re embedded in the players’ shoulder pads, transmitting speed, direction and the impact of a tackle. For b... More
With N.F.L. Deal, Twitter Live-Streams Its Ambitions (New York Times)
When Twitter streams its first N.F.L. game on Sept. 15, it will get to assess whether its vigorous pursuit will pay off — and whether live streaming can viably be a linchpin of i... More
Media, Sports Industries Rattled by Planned EU Copyright Shake-Up (Reuters)
The media and sports industries are preparing to lock horns with the European Commission over its plans to shake up copyright law to make more films, sports and TV shows available ... More
Rio 2016: The Race for OTT Gold (StreamingMedia)
In a few short days, we will hear the familiar theme of the Olympics, see the lighting of the Olympic flame and beam with pride as we watch over 10,500 athletes from more than 206 ... More
Live Sports Inches Closer to OTT Video (HMM)
Live sports, the last bastion of pay-TV, is slowly migrating to over-the-top video in the United States. In a first, Sling TV Aug. 3 announced it would launch NFL Network and NFL R... More
Sports Teams Go Big On Beacons: In 93% Of MLB Stadiums, 53% Of NBA Arenas (MediaPost)
The Internet of Things is very much about determining precise consumer location, and sensors such as beacons are helping that along more every day. There are now about 8 million se... More
Big Data Drives Booming Demand for Fantasy Sports (SDC)
Fantasy betting is growing faster than anyone could ever have predicted. In 2008, one in six Americans admitted to betting on sports. That number has increased significantly in the... More
Nearly Every Baseball Stadium and Half of NBA Arenas Now Studded With Mobile Beacons (AdAge)
Nearly all Major League Baseball parks and around half of pro football, basketball and hockey arenas are dotted with beacons and other technologies that communicate with mobile dev... More
Twitter Scores Live Streaming for MLB, NHL Games (TV Technology)
Twitter going all-in on live streaming for sports, as the company has announced that it recently closed a partnership with both the MLB and NHL to stream weekly out-of-market games... More
Virtual Reality in Sports Poses Unique Challenges for Producers (Variety)
Is virtual reality the future of sports coverage? Conceptually, it’s a no-brainer; VR technology can put viewers in the center of the action. And there’s no shortage of players... More