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Twitch’s ESL/DreamHack deal lays blueprint for traditional media principles in esports
Tomos Grace, EMEA head of sport, YouTube
YouTube sees future for ‘pay’ content in sports broadcast partnerships
Exclusivity the battleground as Twitch and YouTube fight it out
Twitch’s deal with game developer Activision Blizzard last month is the latest indication the live-streaming platform and its rivals are now seeking esports rights on an exclusive basis.
Mediapro looks to YouTube to plug distribution gaps
Spanish agency Mediapro has agreed deals with video-sharing website YouTube to plug gaps in the distribution of the international rights to the Copa del Rey and the beIN Sports pay-television channels in Spain.
YouTube’s EMEA sports head Grace assumes media remit in expanded role
J.League streams matches in Mena, certain Asian territories on YouTube
NFL, YouTube extend content partnership
FC Barcelona becomes first sports team in world to gain over 10m YouTube subscribers
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Bundesliga signs off sales cycle
The German Bundesliga rounded off its international sales cycle this month, with deals in Australia and New Zealand.
Flexible, digital, local: how the NBA is building its global media value
The renewal of the National Basketball Association’s domestic media-rights deal, expected later this year, is the most eagerly awaited in US sport and will no doubt be the biggest of the year.
Ligue 1 says it is ‘satisfied’ with modest increase as beIN holds its fire
Last Friday’s French football league rights auction put a large hole in the theory that Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports is an unstoppable force bent on dominating the local market