MLB makes Polymarket its official prediction markets platform, giving it exclusive data access; Polymarket will restrict contracts that pose “integrity risk”
On the cusp of opening day and under the cloud of a recent betting scandal, MLB reaches a licensing agreement with event-prediction platform
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year
and no one saw it coming BBC : Apple wins US F1 TV rights in $750m deal Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times : F1 races to air exclusively on Apple TV next year Timi Cantisano / Android Police : YouTube TV v...
Reddit COO Jen Wong says the company has revenue sharing deals with the NFL, the NBA, MLB, and others to get video and other content, hoping to draw advertisers
Reddit, known for its chat forums on everything from Proust to Wall Street stocks, is going big on sports.
How Apple expanded into sports since 2022, starting with the MLB, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him
In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue …
MLB partners with Uplift Labs, which uses AI and images captured by two iPhone cameras to detect players' flaws, forecast their potential, and flag injury risk
This is the real AI threat, hidden forms of bias become encoded into systems in ways that are hard to observe and fix. — https://www.wsj.com/... Twitter: @upliftlabs : We are thrilled to announce Up...
Apple and Major League Soccer announce a 2023-2032 broadcasting deal, with games available via MLS Apple TV app or Apple TV+; source: deal is worth $250M+/year
In a historic first for sports, fans can stream every single MLS match through … Tim Baysinger / Axios : Apple builds sports empire with MLB, MLS deals Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Apple signs 10-year s...
In resuming activity, MLB relies on several tech giants for help: iPads to examine play, Google Cloud to track stats, Sony audio to power artificial crowd noise
- Major League Baseball will look to Big Tech companies like Apple and Google to help with its shortened season that is scheduled to begin Thursday.
Twitter announces 30 new or renewed video content deals, details live programming from ESPN, NBCUniversal, Live Nation, Vice News, MLB, and more
Twitter is ready to pump even more premium video into your tweet-stream from a range of new and existing partners — with an emphasis on live-streamed content.
Facebook gets exclusive rights to stream 25 MLB afternoon games, making MLB first league to air season games solely on Facebook; sources say price ~$30M-$35M
you won't be able to watch them anywhere else on TV or online: https://www.recode.net/... Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin : It's stunning how little money this is for Facebook. http://www.bloomberg.co...
Facebook signs non-exclusive deal with MLB to offer live broadcasts of 20 Friday night games this season, with the first stream coming this week
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider :