Global

Basketball
Baltics

Increasing the value of its media rights is an essential bargaining chip for the Euroleague as it faces a threat to its long-term survival from Fiba, the sport’s global governing body.

Football
Global

Interview with Roberto Dalmiglio and Konstantinos Filippas, chief commercial officer and European managing director respectively of the MP & Silva agency, about the Serie A international sales cycle and recent deals in the Nordics.

American Football
Global

Internet company Yahoo has sold out its advertising inventory for the first ever free live global stream of a regular-season game from the NFL, with the American football league stating it will closely monitor the results of the initiative as it seeks to determine whether it will proceed with further deals.

Ice Hockey
Global

Pan-European club ice hockey competition the Kontinental Hockey League has expanded the global reach of its KHL-TV channel through an agreement with new Russian-language satellite television service TeRus.
Global

The Formula E electric car-racing championship has hailed a landmark content partnership with social media platform Facebook.
Global

Jose Hawilla, the founder of the Traffic agency, admitted to a judge in December that he paid bribes regularly from at least as early as 1991, according to court papers that were unsealed on Wednesday.

Motorsport
Global

The Formula E electric car-racing championship has agreed a one-season extension to its partnership with social video production company Grabyo.

Football
Global

Media company Liberty Global has acquired a stake in London-based digital media company Copa90, which specialises in football content.

Football
Global

The Infront Sports & Media agency is to collaborate with Vizrt, a company that provides content production, management and distribution tools to the digital media industry, to launch a new virtual overlay solution.

Football
Global

Digital media service provider RR Media has launched a new online platform targeted at sports organisations.

Badminton
Global

Lagardère Sports, the sports marketing division of conglomerate Lagardère, has been confirmed as host broadcaster for five major sports events this November.

Basketball
Global

A series of late, one-off deals for last month’s EuroBasket tournament helped drive the global media rights income of the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) in its 2013 to 2015 cycle.

Football
Global

The B4 Capital agency has refinanced almost all of its spend for Fédération Tunisienne de Football rights thanks to a three-season deal with Abu Dhabi Media.

Ice Hockey
Global

The IMG Events & Media agency has struck a multi-season deal to market and distribute global media rights for North American ice hockey league the NHL outside the United States, Canada and Nordic countries.
Global

Online video distribution and marketing company Rightster has said it is looking at options to secure additional investment in the fourth quarter of 2015 to ensure it has enough working capital to move towards a breakeven mark in cashflow.
Global

The IMG Events & Media agency has extended a deal with Panasonic for the Japanese electronics company to continue providing technology for Sport 24, the live sports channel produced and distributed by IMG exclusively for the in-flight and in-ship markets.

Multi-sport
Global

Television content group Inverleigh Media Holdings has struck an enhanced partnership with youth-focused channel provider Trace TV to supply sports-related content to the Trace Sports Stars network of international channels.
Global

Video-sharing website YouTube is stepping up preparations to launch a subscription-based service in the US, according to reports.