Global

Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

The merging of Endeavor’s OpenBet and IMG Arena has led to a high-profile casualty as Max Wright, who has been with IMG for 11 years, negotiating various betting rights deals with sports bodies, leaves the company.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Confederation of African Football is planning to introduce virtual overlay advertising at its events for the first time and has invited suppliers to submit bids for the contract, SportBusiness understands.
Rugby Union
Media

World Rugby is increasingly looking to unbundle commercial rights to the women’s game, following similar steps taken by Fifa and Uefa in recent years, but believes that bundled rights deals “still make sense” in certain markets.
Motorsport
Finance & Law

Formula 1's revenue broke the $500m (€465.7m) barrier for the first quarter of this year, with the addition of an extra race in the period and strong performances across all three main revenue drivers paying dividends.
Multiple Sports

Environmental Sustainability Report New report enables clubs, fans, journalists and anyone in the sports ecosystem to easily find information relating to top flight English football clubs
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Genius Sports’ first-quarter net loss remaining flat at $25.5m comes as improved revenue generation at its betting and media divisions underpinned the financial performance.
Football
Events

Brazil is the favourite to stage the 2027 Women’s World Cup after Fifa’s evaluation report scored its bid more highly than its European rival from Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
Basketball
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Orsen sports marketing agency has landed the contract to handle the commercial rights for Fiba 3x3 basketball competitions globally.
Motorsport
Sponsorship & Marketing

Williams Racing is looking to secure a new title sponsor in time for the start of the 2025 Formula 1 season, SportBusiness can reveal. 
Tennis
Sponsorship & Marketing

The International Tennis Federation has announced that Microsoft has renewed its sponsorship of the Billie Jean King Cup.
Motorsport
Sponsorship & Marketing

Digital consultant and software development firm Globant has agreed an Official-Partner-level deal with Formula 1 that will see it overhaul the motorsport’s mobile fan application and the pit wall system used by teams.
Motorsport
Industry Moves

Formula 1 has bolstered its commercial team with the hiring of Joel Seymour-Hyde, who joins as head of partnership management, having departed his role as managing director, UK at Octagon in December last year. 
Motorsport
Sponsorship & Marketing

McLaren Racing will be sporting a new brand on its car at the upcoming Miami Grand Prix after signing up e-commerce platform eBay as its latest sponsor
Football
Media

Dutch football’s Eredivisie is looking for an agency or agencies to represent its international broadcast and betting video rights, a property held for 24 years by IMG.
Golf
Sponsorship & Marketing

The addition of NetJets to the Open Championship’s roster of sponsorship suppliers has been motivated by the US-based private aviation company’s intention to better penetrate the European market.
Skiing
Media

A controversial vote on Friday by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) council to push through media rights centralisation has reignited a dispute with Europe’s leading ski associations w…
Football
Governance

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has hit out at Fifa for refusing to engage in talks with football stakeholders worldwide over the expansion of the international calendar.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Following months of speculation, Fifa today confirmed a four-year global sponsorship agreement with Saudi Arabia-owned oil firm Aramco.