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Kevin Roberts: Sponsors are paying the bills, so they have a right to standards of commercial behaviour and good governance from FIFA

Is it time to scrap the Youth Olympic Games and replace it with a more relevant, exciting and appropriate alternative? 

The global popularity of football was demonstrated on social media during May’s UEFA Champions League final. Max Gabovitch reports.

SportBusiness International takes a look at the blueprint and strategy behind the success of energy drink giant Red Bull’s Media House.

One Cup, 32 teams and hundreds of millions in kit supplier dollars. Sports Sponsorship Insider editor Matthew Glendinning gives his take on which brands were the winners and losers at this year’s FIFA World Cup.

Owen Evans looks at the rationale behind UK telecoms operator BT’s multi-million pound naming rights deal with the home of Scottish rugby, Murrayfield.

Some interesting facts and figures about the global tennis fan, in an infographical snippet from the upcoming Global Sports Media Consumption report.

Sir Keith Mills writes exclusively in SportBusiness International about how the Olympic Movement can connect with the next generation, the British America’s Cup challenge and upcoming Invictus Games.

This third annual survey of global sports media consumption by Perform, KantarSport and TV Sports Markets takes our research wider and deeper than before. Wider, because the number of territories covered has increased from 10 to 14, with the inclusion this year of important growth markets such as India, Indonesia, Japan and Turkey. Deeper, because we have asked questions designed to burrow down into new areas, such as consumers’ second-screen activities, that have not been properly examined until now.

This second annual survey of global sports media consumption by Perform, KantarSport and TV Sports Markets confirms many of the trends highlighted in the first report in 2011 and brings into even sharper focus some of the changes in consumer habits that anybody working in the sports media industry needs to be attuned to.

Producing sport for television and other video platforms is an increasingly complex business. In this report we look at the latest developments and trends in the sector, including how productions are planned; camera technologies; the journey from SD to UHD, via 4K and 3D; the challenges of outside broadcasting; and much more. Read the full report here on-screen using our page-turner.

New NBA (National Basketball Association) Commissioner Adam Silver spoke exclusively to Matt Cutler about succeeding David Stern, his approach to leadership and international opportunities for the league.

We look at how English football’s governing body hopes a new digital partnership will help its partners talk to fans more effectively.

Does Ascot’s new sponsorship deal with Dubai Duty Free represent a step-change in the commercial model of one of the UK’s most historic venues?

European football clubs’ in-house editorial content is a key means of both engaging with, and commercialising, international audiences. SportBusiness International looks at the latest thinking in maximising value.

A focus on how NBC’s Golf Channel is going to cash in on the sport’s return to the Olympics at Rio 2016.