Tag: growth

  • ELEAGUE eSports Championship Broadcasting On TBS, Live Streaming On Twitter

    ELEAGUE eSports championship featuring pro video gamers playing Valve’s popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game will broadcast today on TBS thanks to the sports tech collaboration between Turner and WME | IMG showcasing one of the world’s fastest growing sports, mainly watched by millennial and generation Z viewers, as well as Gen X old schooler’s like me and some…

  • Current State Of The Thriving Fantasy Sports Industry

    Fantasy sports growth in North America during 2016 increased to around 57.4 million mostly young male players according to new research by Ipsos Public Affairs in Canada on behalf of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) located in New York. Since the study covering both traditional and daily fantasy began in 2013, the boom in…

  • IBM Sports Tech Twitter Chat With Sports Techie And IBMer Jim Rushton

    IBM Sports Tech Twitter Chat With Sports Techie And IBMer Jim Rushton The first IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) Twitter Chat of 2016, on Tuesday, January 5 at 1PM EST, covers sports and technology. The social conversation will be co-hosted by me and current IBMer Jim Rushton, Global Leader / Partner, Sports and Entertainment Practice at IBM…

  • NFL GSIS And Next Gen Stats New Distribution Partnership With Sportradar US

    NFL GSIS And Next Gen Stats New Distribution Partnership With Sportradar US The National Football League Next Gen Stats initiative is part of a sports and entertainment agreement granting exclusive distribution rights for the 2015 and 2016 season by new partners at Sportradar US. This breaking news released today signifies further development of a new…

  • NBA Digital Streaming Playoffs Coverage Across The Networks TV, Web And Mobile Assets

    NBA Digital Streaming Playoffs Coverage Across The Networks TV, Web And Mobile Assets The 2015 NBA Playoffs begin this weekend and NBA Digital has it covered with extensive programming totaling more than 1,500 hours. NBA.com is prepared to deliver multiscreen content, customize hub pages for each playoff series and social media engagement for online fans.…

  • SportsBlog Grows To Forty Million Page Views A Month By Adding Sports Tech And Niche Web Sites

    SportsBlog in New York City now has 40 million page viewers per month, according to comScore Numbers, because of continued growth with US male superfans, athletes and media influencers that return daily to the expanding platform that has recently targeted sports technology and various team targeting sites as well as new sport verticals. Their record…

  • D30 Closes New Investment Funding For Overseas Growth

    D30 Closes New Investment Funding For Overseas Growth D3O raised $13 million from Entrepreneurs Fund and Beringea to support expansion of their impact protection solution tech and product lines, hire more skilled employees and open up a UK hub while opening up new offices overseas in the US and Asia. Their sports technology relationships with…

  • Cisco Video Technology Delivers Throughout The Sports Year And At IBC 2014

    Cisco Video Technology Delivers Throughout The Sports Year And At IBC 2014 IBC 2014 is going on this weekend and Cisco is there after a sporting year where their technology helped to power the World Cup Brazil, NBC Sochi Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. Cisco and TV Globo, a Brazilian TV network and significant global…