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DAZN financials: Growth reliant on premium domestic rights

Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2020

DAZN

DAZN Group

Perform

DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty of encouraging a transition to consume live sports digitally with its existing portfolio of rights. DAZN has not yet released its 2019 financials, but...

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DAZN’s belated UK launch: Can it avoid Eleven Sports’ 'mistake’?

Alistair Taylor

24 Jul 2020

Video

Sports

Media & Marketing

DAZN, the anointed ‘Netflix of Sport’, has announced plans to resume launching its services globally via a beta service covering boxing bouts In July and August, for users who have registered their...

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DAZN Financials Highlight Difficulty in Changing Sports Viewing for Fans

Alistair Taylor

14 May 2019

acquisition target

consumer acquisition

DAZN

DAZN, the sports-centric streaming service which made headlines in 2018 with several high-profile rights acquisitions , and according to documents seen by SportsPro Media , has managed to dramatically...

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Just Who Would Buy Universal Music?

Mark Mulligan

14 Jan 2019

Access Industries

artists direct

Bolloré Group

Vivendi continues to look for a buyer for a portion of Universal Music . Though the process has been running officially since May 2018 , the transaction (or transactions) may not close until 2020. In many...

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NFL issues warning to streaming services

Alistair Taylor

6 Sep 2018

2018 World Cup

Amazon Prime Video

Consumer behaviour

As rights holders and tech majors continue to experiment with streaming video on demand (SVOD) services as a way to broadcast sports content, questions are being raised about the ability of streaming platforms...

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Can Eleven Sports Disrupt the UK Sports Video Landscape?

Alistair Taylor

19 Jul 2018

Allsvenskan

broadcasters

BT

Eleven Sports is a global sports content provider intent on global expansion. Already established in Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan and the US. Eleven is systematically acquiring...

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