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Football

Team Marketing's contract for the 2024-27 cycle does not contain an automatic renewal clause as it has done in the past, nor does it contain any option for extension. No matter how well it performs, the agency faces an uphill battle to survive.
Rugby League
Data

Sports betting and data services company Stats Perform has been appointed the Official Data Partner for the re-arranged Rugby League World Cup (RLWC 2021)
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Sunil Kaikini and Austin Houlihan, the two executives who recently left the Pitch International agency, have set up Libero 33 Media Limited, a new sports media and commercial rights advisory business,…
Motorsport
Finance & Law

Formula 1 recorded revenues of $744m (€731.6m) during the second quarter of this year as the return of crowds and an uplift in sponsorship and media receipts helped increase its operating income to $65m.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Media group Warner Bros. Discovery has announced a Q2 net loss of $3.4bn (£2.8bn/€3.3b
Football
Media

Sport 24, the IMG agency’s live sports service for the airline and cruise line industries, has renewed its broadcast deal with the English Premier League for a further three years.
Football

Serie A's chief executive Luigi De Siervo told SportBusiness Media the league is aiming to earn between €400m to €500m per season after changes to the Melandri law.
Football
Media

The IMG agency has extended its long-standing, exclusive worldwide deal with the Premier League to manage, license and market the video archive of the top tier of English club football until 2025
Multi-sport
Media

Final broadcast deals signed ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which get under way tonight in Birmingham, have delivered typically strong exposure in competing nations topped up by deals in a handful…
Multi-sport
Events

The organisers of Birmingham’s 2022 Commonwealth Games, which get under way this evening with the opening ceremony, expect to soon surpass the ticket sales total registered at Glasgow 2014 and are also c…
Horse Racing
Media

Goodwood Racecourse is enjoying an increase in international broadcast coverage of the Goodwood Festival, which is taking place this week at the English venue
Multiple Sports
Fan Engagement

The Mediapro agency has agreed a global content sharing deal with social media platform Snapchat
Football
Media

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has set a reserve price of €15m ($15.2m) per season in its new invitation to tender for domestic media rights to Spain’s third-tier Primera División RFEF.
Esports
Host Broadcast & Production

Esports organiser and media company ESL Gaming has agreed a three-year deal with Gravity Media to deliver production services for its global esports events
NFL
Media

Subscription-based offering marks a substantial expansion and retooling of league's digital strategy

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Triathlon
Media

The Professional Triathletes Organisation and its appointed IMG rights agency have sealed agreements with ESPN, beIN Sports, DAZN and various other broadcasters ahead of the debut PTO Tour event this weekend…
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Viaplay Group has announced in its second-quarter interim report that its paying subscribers are up 69 per cent compared to the first six months of 2021. Viaplay’s subscriber base has hit 5.5