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Podcast: Insights on Facebook Live from SportBible’s Paul Rayner

Live-streaming has become one of the hottest topics in digital these days. From those interested in where the media rights for live sport end up, to publishers trying to get

Sports Technology Awards launches and adds new categories for 2018

This week, the 2018 Sports Technology Awards launched, to celebrate innovations in technology in sport over the past year. This year, in addition to the normal categories, there are also

NFL viewing figures show why Amazon have a long way to go to take on TV

Anyone looking at the trend of media rights being held by streaming services will have had eyes on Amazon Prime’s first Thursday night broadcast of an NFL game last week.

Are Sky and the EFL teaming up to future-proof their output?

This week, big news broke about the future of live-streaming and sports broadcasting in the UK, with the revelation that Sky Sports and the EFL will stream midweek games from

Weekly Wrap: Goals, Sports Entertainment and more live sport on Twitter

Twitter’s recent moves to add as much live sport to their platform as possible took an interesting turn this weekend with the arrival of BT Sport’s Score programme, streamed live

Will the threat from live-streaming force broadcasters to pay even more for the Premier League

As the Premier League kicks off this weekend, and we tune in to watch on Sky Sports and BT Sport, with highlights on BBC’s Match of the Day over the

Current thinking about illegal streams risks masking the root of the problem

Back in May, the Sport Industry Group launched a survey to find out young people’s attitudes towards illegal streaming of pirated live sporting events. The results were depressingly predictable –

Wimbledon, Twitter and the age of video highlights

As Wimbledon starts, it’s clear that this is an event which will be heavily followed on social media. For the last decade, that’s been increasingly obvious, but as Facebook and

EFL’s iFollow to bring overseas fans of lower league football every live game next season

The English Football League yesterday announced its new iFollow service, a new digital platform to provide coverage of the Championship, League One and League Two football to fans outside of

Why is sport lagging behind other industries on piracy?

One of the most pressing issues that the biggest sporting events – and mostly Premier League football – have to worry about is piracy. Illegal streaming isn’t just something that