Underdog and Crypto.com debut a sports prediction market to let US users in 16 states bet on the NFL, the NBA, MLB, college football, and more in Underdog's app
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Netflix hopes its expansion into live programming boosts its nascent ad business; Bernstein estimates its two NFL games generated up to $180M in US advertising
Christopher Grimes / Financial Times : X: @dwnews X: @dwnews : The streaming giant Netflix is investing billions into live sports. What's behind this strategy? [video]
Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rose from $15.49 to $17.99 and standard with ads jumped a dollar to $7.99
entertainment TV and films. — Now, customers are going to be subsidizing Netflix's push into live events like NFL and WWE, whether they want to or not. … @durrell : I swear to God, these MFs raise t...
Netflix's foray into live sports caps off a strong year, with its share price up 90%+ in 2024, but the stock's rich valuation sets a high bar for follow-up act
With 24M U.S. viewers for NFL games on Christmas, matching TV ratings, and 38M for the Paul vs. Tyson fight, it's now a serious contender in live sports. … LinkedIn: David Gray : Netflix — the largest...
WBD, Disney, and Fox plan to launch their joint sports streaming venture Venu for $42.99 per month initially, with a seven-day free trial, expected in fall 2024
Streaming sports on a stand-alone basis won't be cheap. … The service is expected to debut in the fall in conjunction with the start of the next NFL season.
StatusPro, which makes a first-person simulation NFL game for VR headsets, raised a $20M Series A led by GV
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Antenna: YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket attracted an estimated 1.3M signups, vs. 1.2M reportedly under DirecTV; ~41% of the NFL subscribers are new to YouTube TV
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Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers for its first season as the exclusive rights holder of the NFL's Thursday Night Football, down 41% from 2021's average
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Nielsen says Amazon Prime's first Thursday NFL game averaged 13.03M viewers while Amazon says it had 15.3M viewers; Amazon guaranteed advertisers 12.5M
Nielsen says 13 million viewers watched the Sept. 15 contest on Prime Video and local over-the-air affiliates.