Sports Betting

Basketball
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Genius Sports has struck a new data insights deal with one of its main broadcaster clients in a long-term extension with US sports broadcaster ESPN
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Sports rights costs continued to climb in the second quarter for Sportradar, but the ATP and NBA investments are paying dividends, according to the group, as it consolidated its market position.
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Finance & Law

IMG Arena and OpenBet have become the first Endeavor-owned entities to be put up for sale ahead of Silver Lake’s expected privatisation of the sports and entertainment giant in the first quarter of 2025.
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Genius Sports’ second-quarter net loss has widened year over year to $21.8m (€20m) as the group says it will only target profitable betting rights acquisitions, having already sewn up English Premier League and NFL contracts to nearly the end of the decade.
Basketball
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Germany’s 2. Basketball Bundesliga has amassed a betting rights package of at least 720 matches per season in a request for proposal (RFP) process that also includes the global broadcast rights, SportBusiness understands.
Cricket
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The embattled IMG Arena has doubled down on cricket, striking an exclusive betting rights deal with Cricket South Africa in a rare piece of announced new business since the merger with the Endeavor-owned OpenBet.
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Industry Moves

FeedConstruct, the sports data and video content supplier for the betting industry, has promoted Narek Harutyunyan, its head of rights and content, to CEO as a replacement for the outgoing Robert Blaszczak.
Tennis
Finance & Law

ATP Media registered revenues of $202.9m in 2023 and a profit of $4m, SportBusiness understands, thanks in part to the aggregation of ATP 250 rights and the return of the Shanghai Masters for the first time since 2019.
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Media

Australian streaming service Kayo has breached gambling advertising rules, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
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Data

Andrew Corser, one of the remaining top senior executives at IMG Arena, is set to be the latest exit from the data and betting division of the Endeavor-owned IMG agency, SportBusiness has learned
Cricket
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Stats Perform has regained exclusive betting data and streaming rights to ICC events in a four-year deal, having been replaced by rival Sportradar from 2021 to 2023.
Football
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Infront has begun selling international broadcast and betting rights to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A after striking one-year deals with the Liga Forte Uniao (LFU) and Libra blocs of clubs, SportBusiness understands.
Football
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Stats Perform has agreed a deal for international betting streaming rights to the English Football League in all markets except the Americas, SportBusiness understands
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A 78-per-cent jump in Sportradar’s Q1 sports rights costs on the back of its new ATP agreement and first season of an NBA extension contributed to a narrow net loss but the company claims to be already f…
Football
Media

Czech agency Pragosport has been awarded the international betting video rights to the top two Czech football leagues from 2024-25 to 2028-29
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Data

The merging of Endeavor’s OpenBet and IMG Arena has led to a high-profile casualty as Max Wright, who has been with IMG for 11 years, negotiating various betting rights deals with sports bodies, leaves the company.
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Finance & Law

Endeavor's Owned Sports Properties was the entertainment giant's sole business unit to show revenue growth in the first quarter of 2024, aided by last year's acquisition of WWE, as the wider group swung to a net loss.
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Genius Sports’ first-quarter net loss remaining flat at $25.5m comes as improved revenue generation at its betting and media divisions underpinned the financial performance.