MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL—The Minnesota Timberwolves have announced a new local media rights agreement with DAZN that makes it the new exclusive home for Timberwolves basketball across its local broadcast territory.

The deal creates a new team-branded subscription service. Launching later this summer, it will allow fans to stream Timberwolves games and provide access to broader team content.

Fifteen games will be available for free this season, underscoring the team’s commitment to reaching more fans.

The subscription service will be available throughout the entirety of the Timberwolves' home broadcast territory, which includes full coverage across Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, with partial coverage extending into Kansas and Wisconsin.

The team reported that DAZN’s digital-first viewing experience and multi-device capabilities will allow fans to seamlessly access games, programming, and additional content across smart TVs, mobile devices, web browsers, and partner streaming platforms.

Production for all local game broadcasts, including pregame and postgame coverage, will be provided by the NBA.

“Our commitment to the best possible fan experience is what drives everything we do,” said Timberwolves & Lynx CEO Matthew Caldwell. “With DAZN, we’re delivering on that promise, bringing Timberwolves basketball directly to fans through a modern streaming experience that expands reach with 15 free games and meets fans wherever they are.”

“The Timberwolves are one of the most exciting young franchises in the NBA, with an incredibly passionate fanbase. We are honored to be their exclusive regional home starting next season and to give fans an easy way to watch the team they love," said Shay Segev, CEO, DAZN Group. “The NBA is one of the most popular leagues in the world and the Timberwolves are an indelible part. Bringing a team of this calibre onto DAZN is an amazing addition to our growing U.S. sports portfolio. We can’t wait to start serving Timberwolves fans as the team prepares for another incredible season.”

DAZN will deliver live Timberwolves games alongside a broad slate of additional content, giving fans expanded access to live action, pre- and post-game shows, highlights, behind-the-scenes storytelling, and original programming that deepens the fan experience.

DAZN also reported that new interactive features will be launched throughout the season including live in-game fan chats, polls, quizzes, and games.

Available in more than 200 markets worldwide, DAZN has partnerships spanning the NFL, NHL, soccer, boxing, MMA and other major sports leagues, competitions and properties.

Additional details regarding game availability, programming, launch timing and pricing will be announced at a later date.

NEW YORK—DAZN, one of the world’s leading sports streaming services, said today that it will be the exclusive direct-to-consumer streaming home of MSG Networks and YES Network starting with the 2026-2027 NBA and NHL seasons.

This now gives DAZN subscribers in the New York City region access to live Yankees, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Devils, Islanders and Sabres games, as well as 24/7 feeds of regional sports networks MSG, MSG Sportsnet and YES Network, as well as on-demand content including highlights, behind-the-scenes programming and Emmy Award-winning original series.

Pay TV subscribers who receive MSG Networks or the YES Network as part of their content package will receive MSG and YES content, as applicable, via the DAZN platform at no additional cost, the company said.

Subscribers to the Gotham Sports App—the previous home to MSG Network and YES Network streaming—will continue to receive uninterrupted access as YES and MSG prepare to migrate users to DAZN during the 2026-2027 NBA and NHL seasons. Exact timing and other details of the migration will be announced in the coming months, according to DAZN.

Although it's the largest digital sports streaming service in the world, covering about 200 countries, the partnership is DAZN’s biggest move yet to gain a larger foothold in the world's most lucrative sports market, allowing it to stream several marquee U.S. sports leagues to American subscribers for the first time.

Up until now, DAZN’s presence in the U.S. market has focused on combat sports, airing 185-plus fight nights a year as well as soccer leagues and competitions, such as the UEFA Champions League and FIFA+. Outside the U.S., DAZN streams NFL Game Pass, NHL.TV, the NBA and NCAA college football and basketball to international subscribers.

In May, the company said it was specifically targeting local rights to certain NBA franchises, telling Awful Announcing, “let’’ be clear, we want to be in that space.“

DAZN Group CEO Shay Segev said the deal was a "defining moment for us and underscores our commitment to expanding our footprint in the United States.”

“The New York sports landscape has a rich heritage of teams and DAZN is honored to partner with both the YES Network and MSG Networks to become their exclusive direct-to-consumer streaming home, bringing the Yankees, Knicks, Rangers, Nets, Devils, Islanders, and Sabres to more fans than ever before," he said. "This is what DAZN does best—connecting fans to the sport they love and creating immersive digital experiences that go far beyond the game."

FIFA+ will launch exclusively on DAZN, bringing the FAST channel to hundreds of millions of soccer fans, soccer’s global governing body and the streaming service said.

FIFA+ on DAZN will feature some 8,500 live matches per year from around 100 FIFA member associations, alongside original programming and archive content.

“The integration of FIFA+ into DAZN represents a key milestone in our ambition to make football truly global and accessible,” Mattias Grafström, FIFA secretary general, said. “Following the successful collaboration at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, we are now taking the next steps in building the Global Home of Football, bringing together competitions, content and storytelling on a single platform while creating new opportunities for our FIFA Member Associations to grow their audiences worldwide.”

The move creates a single global destination for thousands of FIFA-related live events, archival content and original programming. This new service brings FIFA’s extensive portfolio of global soccer content together with DAZN’s portfolio of soccer rights from the top leagues and competitions around the world.

In addition to around 8,500 live events in selected territories annually, the offering includes content from FIFA member associations, extensive data and select archive content from past FIFA tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women’s World Cup, with fans able to watch full match replays, highlights, goals, collections, plus curated content that uses unseen angles and historic footage.

In addition, the 2026 offering includes the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Poland, the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco, the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar, and the FIFA Intercontinental Cup in certain territories.

NEW YORK—DAZN has rolled DAZN Ultimate, a new pricing plan that will include pay-per-view boxing matches, along with regular streaming events in one $44.95 monthly subscription in the U.S.

Traditionally, PPV events for boxing have been sold separately. The new plan, which has been rolled out in 170 countries gives customers access to 185-plus fight nights and a minimum of 12 PPV events per year, which DAZN said could save subscribers more than $535 a year.

The plan also offers fans more choice in how they buy and watch world-class events, with pay-monthly and up-front annual subscription options available. 

Additionally, DAZN Ultimate subscribers in the U.S. and U.K. will benefit from HDR and Dolby 5.1 surround sound available for select events.

“When DAZN entered boxing, we immediately challenged the status quo by bringing some of the biggest fights in the sport exclusively to streaming,“ DAZN Group CEO Shay Segev said. “We are shaking things up once again with DAZN Ultimate, launching an evolution of pay-per-view that will make boxing more accessible to fans. DAZN Ultimate reflects our long-term vision: to build a sustainable, fan-centric ecosystem for boxing that rewards loyalty and delivers unforgettable experiences.”

Current and new subscribers can join via the DAZN app, website, and most connected devices. Pay-per-view events will continue to be available for purchase by DAZN subscribers on a standalone basis.

An introductory offer will be available in select markets. Existing DAZN subscribers will also have the opportunity to upgrade their current subscription to DAZN Ultimate.

In boxing, DAZN is home to the top promotions and partnerships in the world, including Riyadh Season, Ring Magazine, Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing and Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, while also regularly partnering with Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions. 

More information on upcoming bouts and pricing is available here.

DENVER, Colo.—Sports entertainment platform DAZN relied on the MediaKind MK.IO elastic, cloud-native streaming platform to support high-quality streaming of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, which concluded last month.

DAZN held the exclusive global broadcast rights to the inaugural tournament, which featured 32 of the world’s top soccer clubs competing in 63 matches across 12 stadiums in the U.S. and was streamed live to hundreds of millions of viewers in more than 200 markets.

The tournament was the first major live sporting event DAZN streamed with its newly deployed, multiregion MK.IO service from MediaKind.

MediaKind was DAZN’s exclusive cloud-based live event delivery partner on Azure. With its API-first design, real-time adaptability and cloud elasticity, MK.IO enabled DAZN to deliver consistently low-latency, broadcast-quality video at scale, regardless of geography, platform or device, the company said.

“Broadcasting the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 to soccer fans around the world requires reliability and agility,” James Pearce, senior vice president of broadcast and streaming at DAZN, said. “MK.IO supported DAZN in scaling effortlessly, adapting in real time and delivering a seamless streaming experience. The service simplified our operations and helped us make world-class soccer more accessible than ever across all devices to fans worldwide with complete confidence.”

MK.IO allowed DAZN to orchestrate end-to-end video workflows from ingest to playback while dynamically scaling in response to match schedules and peak global demand. The upgrade to MK.IO has assisted DAZN’s growth and unified operations and delivery on a scalable, resilient and cloud-agnostic service.

In addition to supporting the tournament, DAZN has also selected MediaKind’s cloud-connected technology as the sole solution for its 24/7 linear channel processing. The initial deployment supports 40 channels and runs on-prem on DAZN’s own infrastructure, with additional scaling planned, it said.

More information is available on the company’s website.

LONDON and NEW YORK—The National Hockey League and DAZN have struck a multiyear media-rights deal makes DAZN the exclusive home of streaming service NHL.TV in nearly 200 countries, beginning with the 2025-26 season.

Under the new partnership, NHL.TV will be available on DAZN as a standalone subscription or as an add-on to existing DAZN packages, across in nearly 200 countries around the world where DAZN operates, excluding the U.S., Canada, and the Nordics.

The U.S. version of the NHL streaming offering is available via ESPN+.

“The NHL is a global league, and with 30 percent of our Players born outside of North America, engaging our international fans is a significant priority,” NHL Chief Operating Officer Steve McArdle said. “Media distribution is at the core of our global strategy, and we are thrilled to partner with DAZN to continue to expand our global reach and engage with our fast-growing international fan base. Our shared commitment to innovation, gold standard technology and providing an exceptional content delivery service will allow us to deliver NHL content to hockey fans around the world on the platforms they prefer.”

Existing NHL.TV subscribers will receive further details on the migration in the coming months.

As part of the deal, NHL.TV will be promoted and integrated across the DAZN platform’s base of more than 120 million registered users. Fans will be able to access NHL.TV on any device on which DAZN is available, including smart TVs, mobile devices, tablets and gaming consoles, the streamer said.

“DAZN’s landmark agreement with the NHL is a significant step forward in our mission to deliver the most exciting sports action to fans across the globe,” Shay Segev, DAZN Group CEO, said. “We’re excited to bring a premium North American sports property to a broad international audience through an innovative, accessible, and immersive viewing experience. By combining the NHL’s thrilling content with DAZN’s global platform and best-in-class technology, we’re unlocking new ways for fans to connect with the game they love—anytime, anywhere, and on any device.”

NEW YORK and LONDON—DAZN deployed a live sports monitoring infrastructure to support its global broadcasts of the recently concluded FIFA Club World Cup 2025 built in partnership with Techex and TAG Video Systems.

Thirty-two of the most successful clubs from every continent competed in the soccer tournament, which spanned 63 matches. DAZN was the exclusive global broadcast partner. It delivered every match live and free to fans around the world.

With global rights to the tournament and with growing demand for the group’s other sports content around the world, DAZN required an infrastructure capable of supporting the complexity and pace of some of the world’s most high profile and dynamic sporting events. Working with Techex, DAZN built a new SMPTE ST 2110-based global master control room (MCR) in Leeds, UK.

The system provided centralized control over more than 5,000 unique video sources and 300 mosaic layouts. Once at its core data centers, the sources and layouts were seamlessly routed to DAZN’s operational hubs in Leeds, Northern Ireland and Hyderabad, which are powered by TAG’s Media Control System (MCS) and managed through a redundant central interface, This architecture reduced bandwidth use, eliminated infrastructure duplication and enabled any source to be routed to any operator or screen without reconfiguration, DAZN said.

"With the number of different feeds and variants required for DAZN’s broadcasting of the FIFA Club World Cup – on top of our usual workload – flexibility and scalability were the priority to ensure our master control room (MCR) was monitoring as effectively as possible. Our partnership with Techex and TAG has enabled DAZN to continue delivering an unparalleled entertainment experience to our users, supported by cutting-edge live sports infrastructure," said David Christmas, head of broadcast project engineering at DAZN.

Techex worked with DAZN’s project and operations teams on the system architecture and delivery, focusing on the continued development of DAZN’s orchestrated workflow deployments, using technologies such as tx edge to provide protection and monitoring of signals, optimizing signal quality and ensuring delivery, it said.

“We delivered a solution that’s technically sound, operator-friendly and built for DAZN’s evolving needs. We needed to address the immediate demand to build an infrastructure to cater for a tournament the size and scale of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, whilst also considering DAZN’s future” said Richard Bailey, chief product and technology officer at Techex. “It’s a great example of partnership focused on real-world results.”

To further streamline operations, TAG developed a dedicated operator console, designed specifically for DAZN’s live transmission and MCR environments. The touch-compatible interface allowed operators to interact directly with the mosaic—switching feeds, validating ad markers, adjusting audio and managing alarms in real time. Its intuitive, role-based design minimized complexity and eliminated the need for engineering intervention for daily tasks, it said.

“This project gives DAZN the agility to deliver live sports coverage at global scale,” said Kevin Joyce, zero friction officer at TAG Video Systems. “Together with Techex, we’ve built a monitoring platform that enables smarter operations, faster response, and lower operational risk.”

More information is available on the DAZN, Techex and TAG Video Systems websites.

LONDON—Encompass Digital Media said it will support live and on-demand viewing of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup across multiple global regions for sports entertainment platform DAZN with playout, live channel origination, cloud-based streaming, IP distribution and satellite-based resilience services.

Available via linear broadcast and over-the-top, the Club World Cup concludes on Sunday, July 13, with the championship match between English Premier League side Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain of France’s Ligue 1, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The tournament brought together 32 of the most successful clubs from every continent to compete in 63 matches. DAZN is the exclusive global broadcast partner, delivering every match live and free to fans worldwide—a first for a men’s international club soccer tournament.

Throughout the event, live playout is being managed from Encompass’s Stamford, Conn., facility, where its team handles workflows across three channels, integrating late-breaking content, graphics, advertising and event-specific requirements.

Reactive playout services are being delivered continuously across the live window on each matchday and then transition to thematic operations overnight. AI-generated captions, provided in partnership with AI Media, are also integrated into all feeds, Encompass said.

Encompass’ Stream TV product is architected to deliver 100% availability and provides OTT direct-to-consumer distribution for three linear channels (North America, Rest of World and Latin America) via its Altitude Media Cloud. The channels are encoded, packaged and delivered directly to DAZN’s audience.

Encompass also handles IP distribution to seven international affiliates, using a resilient setup monitored 24/7 from its custom-built London facility. The service, which replaces traditional satellite-based delivery with a fully internet-native approach, ensures high-quality broadcast output to licensees in regions including Australia, Europe and the United States.

As an additional layer of resilience, Encompass provides satellite downlink capabilities from the U.K. and the U.S. to enable DAZN to maintain access to live content in the event of fiber or IP disruption. Encompass’s integration of traditional master control and broadcast engineering with modern cloud, IP and OTT services is backed by its operational teams and technical resources, enabling it to meet the real-time demands of live Tier-1 sports.

More information is available on the company’s website.

NEW YORK—Fubo and DAZN have struck a multiyear partnership that will allow virtual MVPD Fubo to offer a new channel, DAZN1, and allow sports streamer DAZN to add Fubo Sports to its lineup.

Those launches are the first phase in a partnership that will see additional collaborations in the future, the companies said.

As part of the deal, Fubo will offer DAZN’s exclusive boxing and mixed martial arts events through the launch of a new linear channel, DAZN1, that features DAZN’s premium live fights and on-demand content. Fubo customers can purchase DAZN1 as a standalone subscription or as an add-on to Fubo’s virtual MVPD product.

At the same time, DAZN will launch Fubo Sports, a free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel featuring 400 live sporting events each year, as well as sports documentaries and movies.

Launched by Fubo in 2019, Fubo Sports currently features exclusive UEFA soccer matches as well as live events from Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), Peak Fighting and Ultimate Strongman. Fubo Sports is available on Fubo, as well as nearly a dozen free streaming platforms. Select Fubo Sports programming is also available on the network’s YouTube channel.

Fubo will be also able to offer its customers DAZN’s live pay-per-view events.

“Fubo and DAZN’s partnership delivers more premium sports to fans, wherever they choose to watch,” Fubo Co-Founder and CEO David Gandler said. “Adding DAZN’s unmatched fight content enhances our sports entertainment lineup while offering customers greater flexibility. We’re also excited to expand our FAST channel, Fubo Sports, through DAZN and explore further opportunities with Shay and his team.”

Added DAZN Group CEO Shay Segev: “Our deal with Fubo enables DAZN to increase access to top-tier sports content for fans in the U.S. and Canada, as we continue to provide the ultimate sports entertainment experience. Fubo’s viewers can now watch the world’s leading fight talent compete in unmissable events as part of a new DAZN premium fight package. Meanwhile, the launch of Fubo Sports on the DAZN platform will be an exciting addition to our ever-expanding portfolio of premium sports content.”

LONDON and NEW YORK—The United Football League (UFL) has signed a new global partnership with sports broadcaster DAZN to broadcast every game of the UFL’s 2025 season.

The UFL, which was formed by the merger of the XFL and the United States Football League began its second season March 28. Broadcast coverage of the league in the U.S. is shared by Fox Sports and ABC/ESPN. Extending coverage to DAZN means the UFL will now be seen in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, China, Sub-Saharan Africa and Canada, in addition to the U.S.

(Read: ESPN, Fox Sports Kick Off UFL Coverage With New Production Technologies)

The 2025 season kicked off last weekend with a match-up featuring the St. Louis Battlehawks against the Houston Roughnecks, which averaged 690,000 viewers. The seaon will conclude after 10 weeks of the regular season and two weeks of the postseason with the 2025 UFL Championship Game on June 14.

The league features eight teams – four former USFL and four former XFL teams. The USFL Conference is made up of the Birmingham Stallions, Houston Roughnecks, Memphis Showboats and Michigan Panthers. The XFL Conference includes the Arlington Renegades, DC Defenders, San Antonio Brahmas and St. Louis Battlehawks.

With DAZN, UFL will be available in over 200 markets, across multiple internet-enabled devices and distribution channels. DAZN say the flexibility and robustness of its platform enables live and on-demand content to be streamed at scale, while also providing the capability to localize in key markets.

DAZN also offers the NFL as the global home of the NFL Game Pass and is the only place for fans (outside the U.S. and China) to watch every NFL game. Fans of American football around the world can also watch the European League of Football (ELF) with DAZN’s new ELF Game Pass. Moreover, DAZN offers free content from some of the world’s most exciting sports properties including the FIFA Club World Cup, LIV Golf, E1 and more.

"The United Football League is proud to join DAZN’s world-class lineup of sports offerings, said Wendy Bass, Executive Vice President, Business Operations & Administration. "This league is focused on expanding the global footprint of American football and DAZN is the perfect partner to help us reach that goal.”

"DAZN’s dedicated audience of sports fans already enjoys a wide range of American Football content on our platform," said Shay Segev, DAZN Group CEO. "Our partnership with the United Football League is an exciting extension of this portfolio and will support the growth of this sport’s reach worldwide. DAZN’s is committed to creating the ultimate destination for sports entertainment, and offering the United Football League’s 2025 season to fans for free aligns with this ambition.”

LONDON and NEW YORK—The sports streaming and entertainment platform DAZN has announced a global deal with LIV Golf that will give it free-to-view rights in more than 200 markets. As part of the deal, DAZN has also secured the exclusive broadcast rights for LIV Golf in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal and Switzerland, strengthening LIV Golf’s global reach.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

A new free LIV Golf+ service on DAZN will carry all LIV Golf events and exclusive LIV Golf+ content. The two companies also reported that DAZN will develop a premium, paid subscription offering.

In the U.S., Fox Sports remains the exclusive home for LIV Golf under an agreement announced in January.

LIV Golf is backed by the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. A subsidiary of the Saudi fund recently made a $1 billion investment in DAZN.

“DAZN’s cutting-edge technology and unparalleled scale give LIV Golf a significant platform to engage a truly global audience,” said Scott O’Neil, LIV Golf CEO. “Our players, teams and schedule span the globe, and it’s important that we continue to connect with fans all over the world as we grow our League in new and exciting markets.”

The LIV Golf+ service on DAZN will make LIV Golf competitions and programming available to millions of fans in more than 200 markets around the world to enjoy on a free, ad-supported basis on DAZN’s platform.

LIV Golf+ on DAZN will include all content currently offered on LIV Golf+ as well as any new, live and on-demand content that will be produced by LIV Golf for that service. That includes LIV Golf’s groundbreaking Any Shot, Any Time technology. Any Shot, Any Time gives fans the ability to select exactly which golfers, teams or groups they want to watch at any given time, continuing to drive new engagement and innovation for the sport.

Shay Segev, CEO of DAZN Group, explained that: “As a truly global broadcaster, DAZN is dedicated to ensuring that fans in every region can experience the most exciting action from LIV Golf, live and free. LIV Golf+ on DAZN will be available alongside DAZN’s extended free content offering, positioning it within an ecosystem that has already captured the attention of golf fans worldwide. This strategic partnership will grow the reach and popularity of LIV Golf, while bringing us closer to building the global home of golf on DAZN.”

In addition, DAZN will launch a newly dedicated LIV Golf space on the DAZN platform co-exclusively for LIV Golf’s owned and operated service worldwide and in partnership with LIV Golf, DAZN will develop an enhanced, paid subscription offering in the future, providing golf fans with access to more premium content and features.

LONDON—Sports entertainment platform DAZN said the second season of NFL Game Pass on DAZN saw significant growth, with paid subscribers growing by 23% year-over-year during the 2024-25 season and free users up by 47% year-over-year.

NFL Game Pass is the only way for fans outside of the United States to watch all NFL games, including the world’s largest annual sporting event, the Super Bowl, which had over 95 million minutes streamed from more than 200 geographies this year.

“The NFL’s media distribution strategy has long been a key part of our growth and success,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "As we look to become a global brand, providing fans around the world access to our games is incredibly important. In just two years as our Game Pass partner, DAZN has brought first-class technology and innovation to the product, providing a better viewing experience for our fans and helping to grow our game.”

In the second year of a 10-year deal, DAZN also boosted the NFL’s growth internationally by expanding the distribution of NFL Game Pass. During the last NFL season, DAZN launched NFL Game Pass on Amazon Prime Channels in six markets.

Focusing on accessibility, DAZN also launched the “Home of NFL” last year, a feature that lets fans dive deep into teams, individual game weeks, and specific content, creating a more streamlined navigation experience.

Since NFL Game Pass migrated onto DAZN, the platform reported that more games are available in more languages. DAZN now delivers 17 games per week localized in five different languages (compared to two per week previously). For casual and emerging fans around the world, DAZN now provides one free game per week globally.

In 2024, DAZN also introduced the Ultimate Tier for NFL Game Pass, unlocking new features and enhancing the viewing experience for customers. With Multiview, for example, subscribers to this tier could watch several games concurrently, ensuring that they didn’t miss a moment of the live action, the service reported.

Meanwhile for this year’s Super Bowl, customers who signed up for an Ultimate Tier plan experienced the event, when watching the authentic U.S. broadcast, in High Dynamic Range (HDR), which enhances the brightness, clarity and richness of streamed content. Ultimate Tier subscribers were also able to stream Super Bowl on more devices concurrently.

“DAZN is proud to partner with the NFL and support one of the world’s largest sports properties in reaching new audiences internationally,” DAZN CEO Shay Segev said. “DAZN continues to elevate the NFL Game Pass experience, launching features and enhancing the viewing experience with every year of our long-term collaboration. We are excited to celebrate the culmination of a successful second season of our partnership, where we’ve brought the drama and passion of NFL action to even more fans around the world.”

MUNICH—DAZN is one of the largest, fastest-growing sports streaming services globally, serving over 300 million viewers across 200 markets and delivering 86,000 live events last year. We provide audiences across multiple continents, including North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania, with a wide variety of international live sports coverage—including soccer, boxing, motorsports, martial arts, golf, unmissable action from the NFL, UEFA Champions League and Europa League, and a range of premier women’s sports. Our mission is to deliver as much live sports as possible to global viewers, including one particularly fast-growing audience group: the sports betting community.

We’ve worked with LTN for several years, harnessing the LTN Lift solution to flexibly spin up and manage unique versions of our core linear channels to support days with many concurrent matches, delivered at low latency to third-party betting platforms via LTN’s managed, multicast global IP network.

Betting on Streaming
Today, we use LTN to bring a broader range of live coverage of Europe’s most popular soccer competition to wagering audiences and partner platforms across Germany. With a suite of LTN’s automated linear channel creation and playout technologies, we create and deliver a flexible portfolio of 11 low-latency, livestreaming channel variants to over 1,000 betting locations.

Starting last fall, we began delivering an additional pop-up offering with up to eight concurrent European elite soccer competitions to distribution partners—along with a range of matches from top European soccer leagues. One of our core requirements was latency—the processing and channel-creation latency from when we acquire content until it hits our clients’ platforms needs to be as low as possible. This is especially important when channel-creation playlists include live elements, because in-play wagering involves incredibly demanding streaming requirements.

Fans enjoying the game from their local betting shops need to know their stream is as close to real time as possible. LTN satisfied that requirement by offering very low latency from ingest to playout processing and distribution. LTN Lift is a user-friendly, easy-to-use solution that helps us spin up new linear feeds on the fly and integrate both live and file-based content into a linear channel experience when required.

We also didn’t want to have to build an additional facility to manage these pop-up channels. We can operate these channels from the production suites in our facility, at home or anywhere from our laptops. As a hosted cloud solution, it’s super flexible and that means we don’t have to worry about additional hardware or maintenance requirements. Having a light-touch solution where we can spin up and operate channels only when required is key for us.

While we enjoy the agile software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, we also know that our workflows are backed by LTN’s ultra-reliable IP network, which is a big plus. The monitoring, transparency and support levels are really strong. We trust the underlying technology foundations and we know LTN’s team is there whenever we need them.

Low-Latency Bets
After creating our new playout instances and managing our game day live-channel portfolio, we deliver them at low latency to distribution platform provider iGameMedia, which acquires and delivers streams at ultralow latency to betting outlets across the region.

Meanwhile, LTN helps us manage complex residential and commercial rights agreements and blackout requirements while delivering a number of concurrent live feeds to subscribers on one of the world’s leading streaming platforms.

Plugging into an intelligent IP ecosystem like LTN means we can scale and bring together complex signal acquisition, routing and distribution capabilities, helping us receive produced feeds from partner broadcasters and tailor distribution for multiple downstream partner platforms. We’re big believers in scalable, IP-first technology foundations—and we’re looking forward to driving future growth across new markets and specialized audience groups.

For more information, visit ltnglobal.com.

MADRID—Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service Max has reached a new agreement with DAZN that will give Max customers in Spain access to the premium sports streamer’s content as an add-on subscription. The catalog of premium sporting events from DAZN’s Pro plan includes La Liga, Formula 1 and Moto GP.

For 44.99 euros per month ($48.72), the Max DAZN Plan includes all of Eurosport’s programming, including the French Open and Australian Open tennis Grand Slams, the three cycling Grand Tours, UFC, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and content from the Paris Summer Olympics—as well as the content included in DAZN’s Pro Plan, which includes all of the streaming platform service's soccer and motorsport content.

Audiences will also be able to follow live on the Max DAZN Plan five soccer matches from every round of La Liga (in 35 of 38 rounds), as well as the English Premier League and the entire UEFA Women's Champions League and Spanish first-division women’s soccer league Liga F, as well as motorsports events such as Formula 1 and Moto GP World Championships.

The new agreement will also allow viewers on Oct. 26 to follow El Clásico, the annual La Liga fixture between Barcelona and Real Madrid, and the return of Ilia Topuria to UFC.

LEICESTER, U.K.—The Super League Basketball (SLB)—a British professional basketball league—has appointed production partners Brandvox and EMG / Gravity Media as its official broadcast production partners, the league said today.

“EMG / Gravity Media is delighted to work alongside Super League Basketball and Brandvox,” said Frank Callaghan, EMG / Gravity Media’s director of production and content in the U.K. “It's an exciting next stage for the sport in the U.K., with a brand-new broadcast partner, we're looking forward to bringing the stories to life in what promises to be a fascinating season ahead.”

The news follows the announcement that DAZN will broadcast all men’s SLB games globally live and free-to-air. Brandvox and EMG / Gravity Media will produce the league’s full schedule of more than 200 games.

Brandvox specializes in live and on-demand video production and distribution. It will manage the delivery of all live games and work alongside EMG / Gravity Media, which will oversee all on-demand content and a number of live games, the league said.

“Throughout an exhaustive tender process, both Brandvox and EMG / Gravity Media demonstrated a clear and collaborative commitment to engaging the Super League Basketball community and providing fans with the best possible coverage of their sport,” said SLB chair Vaughn Millette.

“We’ve been impressed by how quickly Brandvox and EMG / Gravity Media have mobilized their resources to work together and enable the Super League games to be broadcast from the very opening weekend.

“Given the tight timescales we’ve all been working to, we look forward to developing the offering throughout the SLB Trophy competition and introducing a weekly half-hour highlights show alongside additional digital content in the coming weeks.”

More information is available on the Brandvox and EMG / Gravity Media websites.

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—The Esports World Cup Foundation has entered into a global partnership agreement with DAZN Group, which will provide its platform for the free broadcast of the inaugural Esports World Cup (EWC), July 4-August 25.

The EWC will feature top esports athletes and clubs from all over the world. DAZN will broadcast the competition to a global audience through its app-based technology. The inaugural event will be hosted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and feature hundreds of hours of content. All content will be available live and on-demand, DAZN said.

DAZN will work with the EWC to produce and deliver content to fans that optimizes their experience and helps grow reach and audience. It will work with the EWC to produce and deliver content to fans, it said.

“DAZN’s technology, distribution, production and marketing capabilities sets us apart. We are the perfect long-term partners for the Esports World Cup Foundation, and we will be working closely together to further develop how we deliver this innovative event in ways that excite, engage and create new levels of interaction for fans and new audiences,” said Shay Segev, CEO of DAZN Group.  

Esports World Cup fans will be able to watch their favorite athletes and clubs compete across 22 game championships for a share of more than $60 million in prize money, it said.

“We’re excited to team up with DAZN and build traditional sports coverage for the Esports World Cup,” said Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports World Cup Foundaton. “As we work to establish esports as a vital driver of global culture, partnerships with market leaders like DAZN are essential long-term steps to stimulate sustained interest and engage global fan communities.”

More information is available on the EWC and DAZN Group websites. 

LONDON—The sports streaming platform DAZN has announced that it worked with Amagi to recently launch 10 new channels globally. 

Among the channels included in this line-up are Matchroom Boxing, Boxing TV, PDC Darts, Motorvision TV, Lacrosse TV, Padel TIME TV, SportStak, Moto America TV, Billiard TV, and ACL Cornhole TV.

These channels will offer an array of sports content that DAZN said further cements it as the global home of combat sports with the launch of two new boxing channels. The channels complement the extensive portfolio of 150+ live top-tier fights which DAZN broadcasts each year. 

Shay Segev, DAZN Group CEO, explained that “Through DAZN's free tier, fans will be able to access a huge range of sport for free, including even more of the best combat sport. Leveraging DAZN's worldwide reach and market-leading technology, these channels will unlock the best sports action in new ways. We are proud that more sports’ organizations are recognizing DAZN as the partner of choice as they look to engage with a larger audience – we are the only partner which can offer this global footprint.

“Our aim is to become the go-to sports destination platform for all fans worldwide which includes delivering the best proposition for every user,” he added. “The addition of Matchroom Boxing and Boxing TV underscore DAZN as the Global Home of Boxing and Combat Sports and ensure we are creating more touchpoints with more sports fans than ever before.”

The companies noted that the launches expand on the existing work Amagi has done with DAZN in the past. 

"This expanded partnership with DAZN demonstrates the power of Amagi's technology to deliver a seamless FAST channel experience," says Baskar Subramanian, Co-founder and CEO, Amagi. "With our expertise & leadership across content, technology and advertising in the FAST space, we're enabling DAZN to further broaden sports content accessibility for a global audience, driving user growth and engagement for the platform."

DAZN recently appointed Elena Novokreshchenova as Global CEO of Freemium. Under her leadership, DAZN is actively exploring opportunities to add exciting sports content to its free tier underscoring the commitment to offering a diverse and compelling sports programme to fans worldwide. Novokreshchenova will oversee this expansion and said of the deal “As part of this partnership with Amagi, DAZN will offer broader access to sports content to a larger audience which is key for the continued success of the platform. DAZN is committed to paving a new way of sports streaming.”

SAN FRANCISCO—Fox Corp.’s ad-supported streaming service Tubi has announced a licensing agreement with the sports platform DAZN that will see DAZN Ringside and DAZN Women’s Football FAST Channels launch in the US and DAZN TV and DAZN Women’s Football FAST Channels launch in Canada.

This is the first time the DAZN Women’s Football FAST Channel will be available in North America. 

DAZN Women’s Football will be available 24 hours a day, offering a compelling mix of live and classic soccer matches from prestigious tournaments. The channel will be available for Tubi audiences in both the United States and Canada feeding the growing demand for top-tier women’s football in North America, the companies said. 

DAZN Ringside gives fans the very best action across boxing and MMA from Matchroom Boxing, Golden Boy, Wasserman and MF & DAZN: X Series, DAZN reported. The channel will be available for Tubi audiences in the United States.

DAZN TV gives fans the very best action across boxing, MMA, and international soccer. The channel will be available for Tubi audiences in Canada.

NEW YORK & LONDON—The National Football League (NFL) and DAZN Group have signed a 10-year deal for DAZN to deliver NFL Game Pass International (NFL GPI) to sports fans around the world.

The agreement begins with the 2023 season. NFL GPI enables fans outside the USA to watch every NFL matchup throughout the regular season and postseason, including the world’s largest annual sporting event, the Super Bowl.  

The leading digital sports streaming service, DAZN, is available on most connected devices, including Smart TVs, smartphones, tablets, and game consoles. NFL GPI will be available through the DAZN app either as a standalone subscription or an add-on to an existing DAZN package to customers worldwide, excluding China.  

As part of the agreement, the NFL and DAZN will work together to drive international distribution through third-party services and offerings, the NFL said.  

This deal expands on a long-standing partnership between the NFL and DAZN, with DAZN distributing NFL Game Pass in Canada since 2017 and as a broadcast partner in Germany, Italy and Japan – since 2016, 2018 and 2016, respectively, the NFL reported. 

With access to DAZN’s direct-to-consumer platform – including its data-driven technology, global distribution network and marketing capabilities – the NFL said it will be able to grow and engage new audiences over the next decade, building on its growing international fan community.  

“Growing the NFL globally is a key strategic priority for the League and our 32 Clubs. We are excited to partner with DAZN to help us accelerate this effort,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “Our goal has always been to make our games available to as many fans as possible, and we are confident that DAZN’s innovative viewing experience technology will best serve millions of viewers around the world while also engaging a new generation of international NFL fans.”

“The NFL is the premier sports media property, and DAZN is incredibly excited that they have chosen us as their international partner,” DAZN CEO Shay Segev said. “DAZN is the only company that is single-mindedly focused on delivering the very best digital experience for sports fans worldwide and I am confident that we will deliver a superb experience for NFL fans, while helping the league engage new markets and demographics in the sporting phenomenon that is NFL. We can’t wait to bring all the drama, passion and excitement that the NFL is renowned for to our customers as we continue to build the ultimate global destination for sports fans.”

LONDON—In another sign of the rapid growth of sports streaming business, the sports streaming platform DAZN has reported that its live global sports viewing figures reached a total of well over 65 million streams across internet-enabled devices during the first weekend of October for matches from Italy’s Serie A, Germany’s Bundesliga, MotoGP in Spain, as well as the NFL and the Premier League in Canada and Spain.

DAZN also reported that it hit a record of 2.7 plus million global concurrent viewers streaming sports content at a single moment over the weekend. 

“DAZN is using next generation technology to challenge the status quo”, said DAZN co-CEO Shay Segev. “Streaming flexibility is what fans want and DAZN is delivering.”

DAZN delivers content direct-to-the consumer, with subscribers able to access live and on-demand content from any internet-enabled device, such as Smart TVs, laptops and computers, mobile phones, tablets and games consoles. 

DAZN is now live in more than 200 countries and territories. 

LONDON and NEW YORK­—DAZN Group, a global sports streaming platform, has appointed industry veteran Kevin Mayer as the chairman of its Board of Directors. He succeeds John Skipper who is stepping down and will remain on the board as a strategic adviser to DAZN.

“As chairman, I’m looking forward to partnering with the management team and my fellow directors to help DAZN build on its impressive track record of success in developing a truly global sports platform,” said Mayer in a press statement.

Previously Mayer was chairman of direct-to-consumer and international at The Walt Disney Co., where he launched and managed its streaming businesses including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Hotstar. He was also responsible for overseeing Disney’s global advertising sales, content sales, channels sales and international operations. Prior to that role, Mayer served as Disney’s chief strategy officer, leading the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 21st Century Fox and BamTech.

Skipper, who joined DAZN Group in 2018, is stepping down to focus on newly launched content company Meadowlark Media.  DAZN intends to invest in and collaborate with Meadowlark on original programming projects in the future.

“I’m incredibly proud of what the team has accomplished over the past several years. We’ve secured rights to the world’s premier sports leagues, dramatically increased subscriptions and revenues, and launched our platform in more than 200 countries and territories,” said Skipper. “It’s the ideal moment to transition the company into its next phase of growth.”

In the announcement, Len Blavatnik, chairman of Access Industries and DAZN Group's majority investor, said, “As the world of sports and media continues to transform, DAZN Group remains a key holding within the Access portfolio. A seamless transition from John to Kevin and the recent move to deepen the executive team’s expertise with co-CEOs James Rushton and Shay Segev will accelerate the company’s momentum.”

INDIANAPOLIS—London-based OTT subscription service DAZN has purchased several Panasonic AW-UE150 4K pan/tilt/zoom cameras for its production of “The Pat McAfee Show” from a new studio it has built in the hometown of the former Indianapolis Colts Pro Bowl punter.

The show, streamed live weekdays on DAZN from 10 a.m. till noon EDT, is one of several ventures McAfee, who also is a commentator on ESPN’s Thursday night college football coverage, has taken on for the OTT service. He also creates football-focused segments for DAZN Canada and Germany, where the OTT service holds streaming rights for the NFL, and streams a podcast three times per week.

During the summer, DAZN built out the Indianapolis studio in a warehouse space where McAfee was working.

“Pat continues to work with his longtime crew, but this is really DAZN’s first opportunity to associate our brand with football, and we wanted a high-end, future-proofed production studio,” said DAZN Technical Operations Director Petro Mynch.

Five of the new Panasonic AW-UE150 cameras are installed permanently in the Indianapolis studio. Two are stationed in McAfee’s mobile studio. DAZN also acquired two AW-RP 150 PTZ control surfaces—one each for the Indianapolis and mobile studios, as well as three Panasonic BT-LH1770 17-inch monitors—two for the former and one for the latter.

“As a host, Pat is always on the move, very kinetic, so robotic cameras were a natural choice for us,” said Mynch. “We wanted our production kit to be good for at least a few years, and while we presently produce in 1080i/59.94, we have built-in 4K acquisition with the UE150.”

The new studio was built on an accelerated schedule, and Mynch found Panasonic to be helpful with the tight schedule, delivering the equipment promptly and offering necessary training, he said. “There is no on-site engineer; it’s literally all hands on deck with camera ops, and everyone has been impressed with the UE150’s ease of set-up and use,” he said.

The Panasonic UE150 cameras deliver excellent image quality and offer plug-and-play ease with the AW-RP150 remote controllers, he added, noting that the real-time color correction support offered by the BT-LH1770 monitors is helpful.

“Beginning with our very quick studio build, then moving on to demanding weekly live production assignments, the UE150s and support gear have worked impressively well and dependably,” he noted.

More information is available on the Panasonic website.