Targeting an enhanced presence across Germany, Switzerland and Austria, IMG has appointed Alberto Horta as Senior Vice President and Managing Director for the region. Horta’s new remit will be to drive IMG’s commercial strategy and media rights distribution activity in the DACH region, specifically for the company’s network of rightsholder partners in the region. He joins IMG as the firm …
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IMG Arena has secured the exclusive worldwide betting data and streaming rights for the British Basketball League (BBL). A sports data and technology hub, IMG Arena will distribute live streaming for betting and deliver FastPath data from over 214 games per season for its network of over 460 global sportsbook operators. Mark Wrigley, Senior Director, Rights at IMG Arena, …
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Having recently broadened its Sports Media product portfolio with the launch DP World Tour ShotTracker, it’s busy times for IMG ARENA. Executive VP and Managing Director Freddie Longe took time out to talk about all things IMG ARENA and what lies in store for 2022. Last month saw IMG ARENA launch ShotTracker, a highly-sophisticated new media data product that provides …
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Flutter Entertainment has signed a four-year contract renewal with OpenBet, continuing to leverage the company’s services for its Australian Sportsbet subsidiary. Under the terms of the agreement, Sportsbet will utilise OpenBet’s technology and services with the aim of delivering ‘best-in-class sports betting entertainment’ to new and existing customers until 2025. Sportsbet has reported ‘record volumes’ in the Australian sports betting …
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Video game developer Epic Games and IMG, the company’s licensing representative, have united to integrate football into the free-to-play multiplayer game Fortnite. The IMG agency has signed deals with 23 clubs from the A-League, Bundesliga, Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, J1 League, La Liga, MLS, Premier League, Primeira Liga, Scottish Premiership and Serie A. On 23 January, Epic Games will launch …
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By European standards, the Russia betting industry is just reaching adolescence. Yet for the market’s biggest operators such as Fonbet, whose Russian revenues reached RUB19b (+£200m) in 2019, technology has moved on at speed over the last 10 years. One such example of this technology change is the integration of live sports streams – one of the most frequently mentioned …
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Ministers from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have held ‘constructive discussions’ with the Football Association (FA) regarding the ongoing debate over streaming rights. In a statement, Minister for Sport Media and Communications Nigel Adams explained that no games will be streamed exclusively through gambling operators from this year’s fourth round. He explained: “The FA have confirmed …
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The Football Association (FA) will carry out a review of its broadcasting rights agreements awarded to sports betting operators after a report was published by the Daily Mail as today’s frontpage story. The review comes after the coverage of numerous FA Cup matches were broadcast on betting websites. This contrasted the two games made available on the BBC, while BT …
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Lotteries are “turning to SBTech” for sportsbook services when their market share comes under pressure. That’s according to the firm’s Chief Development Officer Andrew Cochrane, who spoke on a panel about replicating the European Lotteries experience at this year’s Betting on Sports America (BOSA). Why is SBTech well placed to join the debate around lotteries providing sports betting in the …
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Gibraltar-based Mansion Group has revamped its virtual sports offering, securing a multi-year agreement with IMG ARENA, the betting innovation studio of leading international sports agency and publisher IMG. Integrated through IMG ARENA’s existing partnership with Leap Gaming, Mansion has deployed a full suite of VS content across its UK online gambling portfolio. Moving forward, Mansion customers will benefit from instant …
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