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Fifa’s 2014 accounts, published last week, confirmed that the governing body’s deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency and advertising agency Dentsu for the World Cup rights in Asia was an exceptionally profitable one for the two agencies.

World football’s governing body Fifa will collaborate with the Pitch International agency to launch a new weekly magazine show entitled Fifa Football.

Fifa avoided the prospect of going back into a US court by agreeing to extend its World Cup rights deal with Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Sports last month. But getting off the legal hook comes at a price, in terms of questions about Fifa’s governance and also, possibly, in having sold the rights at well below market value.

Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke has defended the new US broadcast rights deal signed by world football’s governing body, stating it did not break any “international rules.”

Fifa, football’s global governing body, has renewed rights deals with the Fox network and pay-television broadcaster Telemundo in the US and with telecommunications company Bell Media in Canada.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2014 in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has acquired exclusive rights in the Caribbean for events operated by Fifa, football’s global governing body.

Goal.com, the football news website that is operated by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired live and exclusive rights in the UK and Ireland for the 2014 Fifa Club World Cup football tournament.

The European Broadcasting Union consortium of free-to-air broadcasters has extended a rights deal with Fifa, football’s global governing body.

French digital-terrestrial television broadcaster W9 has secured rights to broadcast the 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup national team football tournament.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights for a series of tournaments operated by football’s global governing body Fifa, including the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada.

Fifa, football’s world governing body, said that Host Broadcast Services, the World Cup host broadcaster, had provided its media partners for the 2014 competition in Brazil with “more and better” coverage compared to the 2010 and 2006 tournaments.

Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at television audiences in the major European markets and America for the 2014 Fifa World Cup

World football’s governing body Fifa filmed Sunday’s World Cup final using a panoramic, ultra high-definition camera and will exhibit the footage when its World Football Museum opens in Zurich in early 2016.

World football’s governing body Fifa has hailed the 2014 World Cup as the “biggest multimedia sporting event in history,” claiming new landmarks for video streaming of a sports competition.