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Finance & Law Multiple Sports

US marketing agency rEvolution has today (Thursday) announced the acquisition of the WePlay digital marketing agency, significantly bolstering its presence across the UK and Europe, Middle East and Africa
Sponsorship & Marketing Football

Chiliz Group, the owners of the Socios fan token business, is launching Chiliz Sports, an independent agency to help cryptocurrency brands identify partnership opportunities with sports properties.
Media Volleyball

The men's and women's CEV Champions League will have two live broadcasters instead of one in Italy over the next two seasons after both DAZN and Sky Italia agreed rights deals with Infront.
Finance & Law US College Sport

The ongoing nationwide realignment of the US college sports conference scene has led to another lawsuit being filed, this time on the west coast
Media Ice Hockey

Smith Entertainment Group has unveiled a new direct-to-consumer streaming service that incorporates matches of its newest franchise, the NHL's Utah Hockey Club, with those of the NBA's Utah Jazz
Events Football

Uefa has re-opened the bidding process to select the host of the 2027 Champions League final after stripping the Italian city of Milan of the hosting rights
Media Power Boating

Iris Sport Media has been appointed to distribute media rights to the UIM E1 World Championship, the electric powerboat racing series that launched earlier this year with a season opener in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Industry Moves Multiple Sports

Tom Edwards, a former leading sales executive at Sportradar, has been recruited by Spring Media to strengthen the agency’s betting rights distribution vertical.
Media Basketball

Greek public broadcaster ERT has extended its broadcast rights deal with the Greek Basketball League for another three seasons
Media Football

The German Football League (DFL) must re-auction a major package of domestic broadcast rights following an arbitration ruling today (Tuesday) in response to DAZN’s legal challenge to its tender process.
Sponsorship & Marketing Basketball

Online brokerage firm Robinhood has become the first brand to hold three NBA jersey patch agreements simultaneously after agreeing a multi-year contract with Miami Heat.
Sponsorship & Marketing Football

Verizon is the third US-based brand in a month to sign up as a 2026 Fifa World Cup sponsor, after Bank of America and Frito-Lay.
Media Football

DAZN has struck an agreement to launch club-specific Saudi Pro League channels, its latest effort to develop closer commercial ties in the Kingdom
Sports Betting Football

Betting video rights to the Scottish Premiership will be exclusively commercialised from next season onwards by Stats Perform, which replaces rival IMG Arena in the role
Finance & Law Football

Real Betis has become the latest LaLiga club to secure a refinancing agreement with US investment bank Goldman Sachs, announcing a €125m ($139.2m) loan it says has been secured "under very favourable conditions".
Media Football

Sky New Zealand has secured exclusive rights to the men’s and women’s A-Leagues for another three years, with a second New Zealand team joining for the coming season.
Sponsorship & Marketing Motorsport

Swiss bank UBS has renewed its sponsorship of the Mercedes Formula 1 Team, despite missing out on a central deal with the motorsports series for next season
Media Basketball

DAZN has added Great Britain’s Super League Basketball and Italy’s Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) to its portfolio of basketball broadcast rights and properties streamed globally.
Media Football

Eleven Sports is now the sole Ligue 1 broadcaster in Poland after signing off on a five-season rights deal
Finance & Law Football

The protracted sale of Farhad Moshiri’s majority stake in Premier League club Everton could finally reach its conclusion after an agreement was announced with Dan Friedkin, the American owner of AS Roma.