DAZN Group

Boxing
Industry Moves

Joe Markowski is leaving his role as chief executive of DAZN in North America with IMG’s Michael Ridout to take on certain duties heading up the broadcaster’s combat sports activities, SportBusiness can reveal.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

DAZN has hired Yu Sasamoto as chief executive of its Japan business, one of the global subscription streaming service's most important markets
Basketball
Media

DAZN has followed up its 10-year deal to distribute NFL Game Pass with a similar agreement to carry the International Basketball Federation’s (Fiba’s) Courtside 1891 basketball OTT streaming platform globally.
Football
Media

DAZN and Japan’s J. League have struck a new rights agreement that encompasses the third-tier Meiji Yasuda J3 League, as the sports broadcaster ups its subscription price in the country for the third consecutive year.
Football
Media

DAZN is to drop its paywall for the bulk of its women’s football coverage worldwide to create what it describes as the “new global home for women’s football” in the broadcaster’s latest move to open u…
Football
Media

The German Football League (DFL) has voiced its opposition to the type of revenue-sharing deal recently agreed between subscription sports broadcaster DAZN and Italy’s Serie A as it continues to prepare t…
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

DAZN has recruited Walker Jacobs from Twitch to the newly created position of global chief revenue officer and president of DAZN’s US operation.
Multiple Sports
Media

DAZN recorded an operating loss of $1.06bn (€969m) in 2022 on the back of increased rights fee commitments but higher direct-to-consumer revenues helped to reduce the figure by 22 per cent year-over-year, SportBusiness understands.
Football
Media

A selection of Uefa Women's Champions League matches, including the showpiece final, are to be shown on free-to-air television in Norway
Football
Media

Sport TV, the pay-television broadcaster, is to return as a Uefa Champions League rights-holder in Portugal for the first time in six years next season, it has been announced
Football
Media

Lega Serie A clubs today (Monday) accepted the new domestic media rights offer on the table from incumbents DAZN and Sky, which represent a slight drop on the current cycle and a similar fee to the one…
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Veronica Diquattro, one of the leading executives at DAZN Group, has exited the sports industry to join Omio, an online travel comparison and booking website
Multiple Sports
Media

DAZN Group is undertaking another swathe of redundancies primarily affecting staff in the UK and Amsterdam in the latest cuts to operating costs, SportBusiness understands
Football
Media

The German Football Association (DFB) has four major contracts in place for international media rights to the Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga, ahead of the start of the 2023-24 season later today (Friday)
Football
Finance & Law

The renewed clampdown against piracy in Italian football has commenced, with l'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM), the country's regulator and competition authority for the communications …
Multiple Sports
Media

Sports content from Eurosport will continue to be available to all DAZN subscribers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland under the terms of a new sublicensing agreement
Football
Media

DAZN has acquired women’s football-focused media platform Ata Football, which it will use to establish a “women’s sports vertical” within the group. Ata
Football
Media

DAZN has entered the French market with live Ligue 1 coverage through a distribution deal with Canal Plus announced just one month before the launch of the league’s domestic tender for the next rights c…