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Japanese digital media company CyberAgent reported a rare quarterly loss in its 2023 Q1 financial results, caused by the costly acquisition of 2022 Fifa World Cup rights by its streaming platform Abema
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Saran Media Group has secured rights for the 2022 Fifa Club World Cup across a number of countries in Europe and Central Asia
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Italian pay-TV broadcaster Sky Italia has secured rights to broadcast the 2022 Fifa Club World Cup, which is taking place in Morocco next month. Sky Sport will show all seven matches live
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Shinai Sports, the company that operates streaming platform iQiyi Sports, has acquired exclusive digital media rights in China to the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup.
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Brazilian media group Globo has acquired rights to the forthcoming 2022 Fifa Club World Cup
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Fifa, football’s global governing body, has launched an invitation to tender in Germany for the sale of media rights for this year’s Women’s World Cup, which will take place in Australia and New Zeala…
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Streaming giant Netflix is continuing to grow its presence in the sports industry, ordering a pair of new docuseries on the 2022 men's Fifa World Cup and Six Nations Rugby
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The deadline to submit bids for two rights packages in Brazil to the Fifa Club World Cup passed yesterday (Monday)
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Well-placed sources in two major East Asian markets have told SportBusiness that pirate signals and streams of Fifa World Cup matches were rampant in their markets, significantly limiting their ability to make a return on the rights.
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Globo’s loss of exclusive digital rights to the 2022 Fifa World Cup unleashed the potential of alternative broadcasts in Brazil, as Brazilian influencer Casimiro’s streams of World Cup matches broke the country’s YouTube and Twitch’s live viewership records.
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SportBusiness Media takes a deep dive into the numbers driving the Fifa World Cup's commercial success.
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An analysis conducted by SportBusiness Media shows that the Fifa World Cup’s global media rights value has kept pace with other blue-riband sporting events, despite what the US Department of Justice described as a 'web of corruption' curtailing its value during the 2000s and early 2010s.
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Chinese state broadcaster CCTV appears to have cut some images of fans not wearing masks from its television coverage of the Fifa World Cup, according to various reports
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Local sources say that Fifa’s sales team is already active in the region for sales to the 2026 tournament – to be held across the US, Mexico and Canada – and has been speaking with media companies to ‘warm up’ the market ahead of negotiations next year.
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Fifa made the decision to move APAC media rights sales in-house earlier this year and is thought to have notified its two current sales agencies in the region, Infront and Dentsu, several months ago.
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Brazilian media group Globo has finalised the details of its 2026 Fifa World Cup rights package as part of its renegotiations with football’s world governing body over its deal for this year’s tournament in …
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The EBU is believed to have faced strong competition from commercial broadcasters in some territories but no pan-regional challenger.
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An average audience of 9.2 million people tuned into German broadcaster ARD’s coverage of the 2022 Fifa World Cup match between Germany and Japan amid new protests against Fifa’s ban on ‘OneLove’ armbands.