Sportfive

Infront guarantees the future income of Serie A but rights-fee growth is in the hands of clubs

Sportfive/IEC says pooling of rights will give agencies stronger base to take on rivals

IMG and Sportfive to challenge Infront for lucrative Serie A adviser role

How Europe’s top football leagues use external experts

SPL drops Sportfive for MP & Silva premium in nine-year deal for international rights

European football federations ponder how to increase the value of their friendly rights

The recipe is simple: take the world’s most popular sport in a market primed for growth, get in while the sport, the broadcast market or the economy more generally is underdeveloped, invest in long-term p…

The joint venture of Dentsu and Infront will be banking heavily on getting good revenue from China.

Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.

Advent International has begun a recapitalisation of its stake in the Sportfive agency.

·   Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency. 

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency. It is the first deal done for the championship.

Media Partners & Silva set to take a long-term stranglehold on the international rights of Serie A clubs.

The Sportfive agency acquired the rights for the 2007 and 2009 World Handball Championships.

Rai set to acquire rights for Euro 2008 from Sportfive.

Shock award of international media rights for German league football

France, Italy, UK and Nordic region the only European territories covered so far.