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New Balance, Fila among brands signing with KBO teams ahead of new season
Korean KBO baseball league teams are busy agreeing commercial deals ahead of the start of the 2021 regular season on April 3
Fifa expects to hit $6.44bn revenue target despite Covid, licensing revenues boosted
Fifa has maintained that it expects to reach its revised total revenue target of $6.44bn (€5.4
Deloitte: Women’s sports on track to be ‘worth over $1bn’
A newly released Deloitte report claims women’s sport is on track for rising revenues driven by growth in sponsorship, broadcast hours and increasing event attendance.
Round-Up: China ‘asks Alibaba to divest media assets’, Tokyo torch relay to start without fans, and more
The Chinese government has asked internet giant Alibaba to divest its assets in the media sector due to concern about the company's public influence
IBSF take rights to market ahead of Infront deal expiry
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has issued a request for proposals for its global broadcast and sponsorship rights as Infront, the long-standing incumbent rights-holding agency,…
CBF extends MyCujoo streaming deal, adds Sportsbet.io as Copa do Brasil sponsor
Football streaming platform MyCujoo has renewed a rights agreement with the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) until the end of the year
Discovery rolls out unified advertising across sports and entertainment portfolio
Media group Discovery has revealed details of enhanced marketing solutions that it will offer to brands as part of plans to align its sports offering with its entertainment portfolio across international…
Covid-19 causes 5.4-per-cent drop in Bundesliga clubs’ 2019-20 revenues
A decline in ticket and transfer income brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has been blamed for causing the total revenues generated by clubs in Germany’s top-flight Bundesliga and second-tier 2.
Round-Up: CCTV fails to show NBA All-Star game, more teams for women’s Cricket World Cups, women join pro snooker tour, and more
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV did not show live coverage of this year's NBA All-Star Game, as it had been previously expected to do as part of a thaw in Chinese relations with the American basketball le…
DAZN signs up Tsunoda and Scuderia AlphaTauri in Japanese F1 push
DAZN has signed up Japanese Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda as a brand ambassador to promote the OTT subscription platform in Japan
Round-Up: Afreeca renews K League streaming, Beijing 2022 boycott calls “doomed to failure”, burst of Korean sponsorship deals, and more
South Korean streaming platform Afreeca TV has extended its rights to show live coverage of K League football, to cover the 2021 season
AWS signs up with PGA Tour in latest cloud computing deal
Golf’s PGA Tour has become the latest sports property to team up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a deal that names the company as the official cloud provider of the organisation.
Round-Up: Blow for Seven in cricket rights battle, IPL close to major sponsorship deal, Indian tech firm plans chess league, and more
An independent arbitrator has reportedly found that Australian broadcaster Seven is entitled to only a A$5m reduction in its rights fee for Cricket Australia content this season, a drastic difference with…
WTT hands Cowan European role, extends with commercial consultant Le Floc’h
Jonny Cowan, the European marketing manager at the International Table Tennis Federation, has been appointed to a role in Europe at World Table Tennis, the commercial arm of the international governing…
Round-Up: Sportradar ‘valued at $10bn+’ in sales talks, CCTV may resume live NBA coverage, and more
Sports data firm Sportradar is being valued at $10bn-$12bn in discussions with potential buyers, who include several 'SPACs'
Sportfive, Riot Games and Freaks 4U Gaming team up for new esports series
The Sportfive agency has teamed up with video game developer Riot Games and esports agency Freaks 4U Gaming on the commercialisation of the Valorant Champions Tour esports series
WRC Promoter wins World RX business after end of IMG era
WRC Promoter, the commercial arm of the FIA World Rally Championship, has added the FIA World Rallycross Championship to its portfolio in a deal with the International Automobile Federation (FIA)
Infront makes squash equity investment in long-term PSA commercial deal
The Infront agency has committed to a long-term investment in squash in a deal that involves a minority equity shareholding in a new company set up to manage and commercialise the Professional Squash Association’s c…