Recent Posts tagged with mobile
By Will Strauss, Editor | Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 17:09
Tobias Fröhlich, CEO and founder of TeraVolt, discusses viewing trends in sports, including the move to mobile. The video interview was conducted by SVG Europe content editor Jo Ruddock ahead of the Sports OTT Summit at the Parc des Princes in Paris on Wednesday 15 June.
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 11:19
Eleven Sports Portugal has created a new WhatsApp service that it will use to send videos clips of football matches to subscribers that use the Facebook-owned mobile messaging app. Starting with Tuesday’s Champions League Round of 16 matches (18 February 2020), Eleven will WhatsApp match updates, including goal clips, in an effort to “make it […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Monday, August 19, 2019 - 13:07
Serie A football club AC Milan has released a new mobile app that will offer live streams of selected games as well as matchday ‘experience’ benefits for supporters. Initially available on the iOS platform, the app is in both the Italian and English languages. Among the included content will be live events, daily news and […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 13:09
Watching on TV is still the most popular way to view sports, according to a new study. In the State of Digital Lifestyles research report from Limelight Networks, consumers in nine countries explained how they prefer to watch sports, as well as their views on device adoption and more. On sports, only 17.5% of people watch online, […]
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By | Friday, August 10, 2018 - 10:29
As the new Premier League season starts, Ooyala EMEA VP Jason Johns has been giving some thought to new and emerging technologies, and their likely impact on football production. The result is a roll-call of top trends and technologies to keep an eye on during the months ahead. Johns comments: “With the Premier League kicking […]
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By SVG Staff | Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 08:59
Live and on-demand OTT services specialist Simplestream has appointed Fabio Gallo to the position of sales director EMEA. Gallo will initially drive the company’s suite of cutting-edge OTT products, enabling sports rights owners and holders to launch next-generation TV services that engage their audiences, reduce ‘churn’, and increase monetisation opportunities. Based in the company’s London […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 11:51
BT Sport’s newly appointed director of mobile strategy Matt Stagg used a presentation at the Media Production Show in London to once again extol the virtues of 5G mobile and how it could transform live contribution within broadcast television. During a seminar called ‘The Future of Entertainment on the Move’ (Wednesday 13 June), the former […]
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By SVG Staff | Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 09:27
Peripheral to sports broadcasting, but something that could have an impressive impact on the consumer end of things, Sony has announced that it will acquire Ericsson’s 50 percent stake in Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (“Sony Ericsson”), making the mobile handset business a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony.
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By Andy Stout | Friday, September 2, 2011 - 09:23
A mere two years since launching its first multi-lingual app, Eurosport’s suite of apps, which includes the Eurosport.com live sports news and the Eurosport Player live streaming apps, now account for up to 650,000 daily visitors and over 5 million downloads.
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