The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) pulled in a pretty solid fiscal 2011 and FY Q4, but a number of challenges have emerged that could threaten… Read more »
When it comes to marketing, some things are obvious: Twitter is important. Facebook is more important (at least so far). Holding onto those… Read more »
Online sports broadcasting firm Perform Group says it sees a “promising pipeline” of potential acquisitions it will buy using funds raised i… Read more »
As of Tuesday, SB Nation no longer stands alone. The sports site, which has grown from a federation of sports blogs to a prominent network a… Read more »
YouTube announced its long-anticipated major programming push late Friday, with channels due to start rolling out in November. Here’s the Yo… Read more »
“Every sport, from every location.” That is BBC Sport’s mantra for delivering next year’s London 2012 Olympic Games digitally. Read more »
Times Of India’s online division is getting mobile and internet highlights of English soccer’s Premier League, after cutting a deal with onl… Read more »
– *ESPN* Deportes: Freddy Rolón has been promoted to VP of ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Deportes Programming and Business Initiatives. He’ll lead the… Read more »
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more »
UK football fans will potentially be able to watch cut-price Premier League matches, after the European Union’s highest court ruled on Tuesd… Read more »
Pew, in its latest, ongoing research into news consumption and news creation, took a pit stop in the world of mobile today, and found that w… Read more »
One of the most unusual efforts to make money from a newspaper web site launches today in Boston, slightly less than a year after plans were… Read more »
A new online and mobile service dedicated to sport and showbiz is to be launched in the wake of the closure of the News of the World by Rupe… Read more »
ITV’s Rugby World Cup strategy for mobile was tackled in to touch Friday morning when its dedicated mobile app failed to materialise and its… Read more »
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
UK tournament rightsholder ITV (LSE: ITV) will try to reach rugby fans at the office and on mobile because this year’s Rugby World Cup in Ne… Read more »
The world’s wealthiest soccer club will deploy RFID chips, augmented reality season tickets, online data toys, connected TV channels, Foursq… Read more »
Online sports broadcaster Perform Group swung to a loss in its first year on the stock market after it spent out on more sports rights and a… Read more »
Sports media site Bleacher Report has been on a big publicity push this week and now it’s clear why: The company announced today that it’s r… Read more »
Sometimes what’s important is what you’re doing, not where you are (I should write Hallmark cards, right?). If you’re going to the movies, f… Read more »
A small but significant acquisition for Disney-owned sports network ESPN: it is buying Australian company ExtraCorp Pty. Ltd, owners of the… Read more »
» Why the Web’s New TV-Style Ratings Might Not Mean More Ad Buys (AdAge)
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Last soccer season, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) debuted ESPN Goals, an iPhone and Android app that, for £3.99 per month or £29.99 annually, offered m… Read more »
Last year, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement service (ICE) began a controversial campaign of grabbing domain names that agents sa… Read more »
Savvy consumers already know that when considering a product advertised with the word “free,” it often pays to read the fine print. In a sig… Read more »
Critical talks between the Premier League and Football League over how matches will be covered by national newspapers and news agencies have… Read more »
» Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) circulation chief calculates, by platform, the news people will pay for (Poynter/Rick Edmonds)
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James Murdoch’s testimony on phone hacking is getting called into question by those who were closest to the situation at the time: that coul… Read more »
The Associated Press will be working with talent agency/marketing firm Madison Avenue Sports and Entertainment to develop content culled fro… Read more »
NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports Group has struck a wide-ranging advertising deal with the National Hockey League that gives the Comcast-owned netwo… Read more »
On June 30th, the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of hard work for a very small team (the ePresse consortium… Read more »
Novak Dkojovic and Petra Kvitova weren’t the only winners at Wimbledon this year. Fans who thinking watching sports live matters won big whe… Read more »
– Grantland: David Cho, co-founder and publisher of the website The Awl, is leaving and relocating to Los Angeles to join Bill Simmons’ Gra… Read more »
News media this week reported next year’s London Olympics will allow athletes to tweet from the Summer Games.
In fact, that consent was con… Read more »
Yesterday’s news that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has finally launched a handset built on MeeGo was one vote in favor of the OS, and here’s another: I… Read more »
After years of railing against NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports for its real-time failures, my first instinct when the International Olympics Commit… Read more »
Two years ago I ranted here about the need for NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports to get a grip or lose its grip on Wimbledon after it time shifted st… Read more »
This past Monday Dick Ebersol jovially tossed mini footballs to agency execs in the New York Hilton ballroom for the first upfront since Com… Read more »
New research released at Wednesday’s paidContent Mobile from the app analytics company Flurry spells out the force of apps in the mobile wor… Read more »
New research from the app analytics company Flurry spells out the force of apps in the mobile world today pretty clearly: there are 500 mill… Read more »
