Dentsu

Athletics
Sponsorship & Marketing

World Athletics has added a further Japanese brand to its sponsorship portfolio, agreeing a deal with Honda Motor Corp that will see the company supply electric vehicles at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Football
Media

The move represents the first time Amazon has picked up rights in Japan to a sports competition not involving Japanese athletes, following previous coverage of boxing and baseball events.
Multi-sport
Media

Hong Kong’s government has gone back on a promise to steer clear of the country's media rights market, stepping in to acquire exclusive rights to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Athletics
Sponsorship & Marketing

World Athletics today announced electronics giant Sony as a new sponsor on a three-year term, the latest in a string of Japanese brands supporting the governing body.
Aquatics
Sponsorship & Marketing

World Aquatics has unveiled UPCX, a developer of blockchain payment systems, as a sponsor ahead of next month’s World Aquatics Championships in Doha.
Multi-sport
Finance & Law

Hironori Aoki, chairman of Aoki Holdings, has been handed a suspended prison sentence for bribing a former member of the organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Multi-sport
Finance & Law

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office has indicted the Dentsu agency and five other companies, along with six individuals at these firms, for alleged bid-rigging in relation to contracts awarded…
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Japanese services U-Next and Paravi are merging to create one of the market's biggest subscription video streaming platforms
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Advertising giant Dentsu is one of three companies that have been temporarily suspended by Japanese authorities from bidding on certain government contracts due to ongoing corruption investigations around…
Multi-sport
Finance & Law

Yasuo Mori, a senior official within the Organising Committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is one of four executives who have been arrested as part of an ongoing probe by Japanese prosecutors…
Football
Media

Fifa has opted to retain rights to stream the 2022 Fifa Club World Cup free of charge in over 50 territories on its new OTT platform
Football
Media

Japanese digital media company CyberAgent reported a rare quarterly loss in its 2023 Q1 financial results, caused by the costly acquisition of 2022 Fifa World Cup rights by its streaming platform Abema
Multi-sport
Finance & Law

Offices of the Dentsu agency were raided today (Friday) by Japanese prosecutors and antitrust officials as a corruption probe continues into contracts handed out for the staging of Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic a…
Football
Media

Fifa made the decision to move APAC media rights sales in-house earlier this year and is thought to have notified its two current sales agencies in the region, Infront and Dentsu, several months ago.
Football
Media

Global streaming service DAZN has acquired short Fifa World Cup highlights rights in Japan
Multi-sport
Finance & Law

Japanese prosecutors have arrested former Tokyo 2020 organising committee executive Haruyuki Takahashi and three men associated with fashion company Aoki Holdings on suspicion of bribery, according to…
Football
Media

Chinese streaming platform Migu and Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV have acquired rights to this month's East Asian Football Federation E-1 Football Championships
Athletics
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Sony Pictures Network India has acquired exclusive media rights across the Indian subcontinent to the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon