Tag "Sport"

Eurosport picks up ATP Tour rights to become the Home of Tennis in France

Eurosport has entered a five-year deal with ATP World Tour and ATP Media that will allow them to screen 37 ATP World Tournaments a year.

Snack Media launches StreamFOOTBALL in collaboration with Stream Time

Snack Media and Stream Time launch Stream Football – a new service to provide football fans with engaging live video content en masse.

WordPress for Sport: A Word from the Wise

There are multiple reasons for sports websites to build their own bespoke CMS. But there are also some compelling reasons to use WordPress, too, as Jonathan McConnell from Sotic explains.

Digital Sport London #17: Is the future of sport a virtual one?

In the first #DSLondon event of 2018, we take a look at the second of our monthly ‘hot topics’…. Virtual Reality. The technology is not new but it is becoming

The inside track on SXSW 2017 with Richard Ayers & Richard Clarke [podcast]

With South By South West (SXSW) having taken place at the start of the month, I thought I’d bring in two people who are regular visitors to the event in Austin, Texas and who both spoke at this year.

Event: Innovation in Digital Sport – March 27th in Manchester

This month a new event will be launched under the Digital Sport flag, where we take a look at a particular area that is most pressing to our industry. In

Snapchat Spectacles are social sport’s latest innovation

Last week, the NHL’s Minnesota Wild embraced first-person, behind-the-scenes social sharing when they became the first professional sporting team to utilize the new Snapchat Spectacles, a move that teams will

American fan engagement would not work in the Premier League

Not long ago, I read an article in The Drum written by digital consultant Chris Bishop and entitled ‘Why English football sucks at fan engagement – and Americans are in

Facebook Flash is here and sports teams must capitalize

There are a few certainties in life: death, taxes, and an unending release cycle of Snapchat clones. Last week, Facebook unveiled its latest attempt in the form of Flash, less

Sports publishers are the leading lights on social media – and now the stats prove it

If you thought that sport was just a distraction for most people, an unimportant flight of fancy for the free time between work and more important social adventures, then you’ve