Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge from 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription
Season Pass Is Gone X: @nineradvocate : @JoePompliano Translation: you now have to pay for a full Apple+ subscription to get MLS Season pass. Many of us were getting it for free; but it was still chea...
AWS and the NBA announce a multi-year partnership to launch new AI-powered features and data insights from games, including an NBA Inside the Game platform
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CAA partners with YouTube to help CAA clients identify and remove AI-generated content that features their likeness, with a wider rollout planned in early 2025
This is another example of industry leading AI video capabilities from Google. I'm curious to see how quickly this becomes a standard feature on video platforms X: Todd Spangler / @xpangler : In earl...
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.
Meta expands NBA and WNBA partnerships to offer 52 NBA games in VR, including five 180-degree monoscopic VR games, some WNBA, NBA G, and NBA 2K games, and more
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NBA and NBPA partner with Sorare, which makes NFT-based sports games and claims to have 2M users, to launch a digital collectibles-based fantasy basketball game
Sorare is a fantasy sports game that allows users to collect non-fungible token … Wayne Jones / crypto.news : Gameplay Galaxy, Spice AI, Omni Wallet, and Tesseract Complete Successful Venture Rounds T...
NBA says it will install 17-foot tall screens on game courts to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 remote fans using the Together mode in Microsoft Teams
The basketball organization said it'll install massive 17-foot tall screens on each game court to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 fans.
NBA to use Microsoft's Azure cloud to add new features to its website and apps, like showing games in fans' native languages and letting them chat during games
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
As live sports games are canceled, pro athletes and teams turn to video game streaming as a means of connecting with fans and finding new sources of revenue
Ben Strauss / Washington Post : Tweets: @benjstrauss , @postsports , and @launcherwp Tweets: Ben Strauss / @benjstrauss : I talked to NBA dudes Meyers Leonard and Mario Hezonja about Call of Duty, st...
Verizon's rollout of 5G to three NBA arenas and over a dozen NFL stadiums only covers some of the seating areas in each facility
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