IMG

Triathlon
Media

The Professional Triathletes Organisation and the IMG agency have sealed further broadcast deals for the Collins Cup competition in China, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam, along with launching…
Football
Media

Sports rights formerly held by Fox Sports Asia, which is shutting down next month, have attracted bids from several companies interested in taking over the Disney-owned pay-television platform's position…
Golf
Data

IMG Arena, the sports betting arm of the IMG agency, has acquired the data distribution rights to golf’s Ryder Cup.
Multiple Sports
Media

Peter Smith, a long-standing executive at the IMG agency and the force behind the creation of the agency’s international broadcast rights business, has died at the age of 76.
Esports
Events

The Global Esports Federation and the Singapore Esports Association (SGEA) have established the Global Esports Games Organising Committee that will work closely with the IMG agency, as the city gears up…
Triathlon
Media

Pay-television broadcasters Foxtel, in Australia, and Sky New Zealand have become the latest rights-holders for the Professional Triathletes Organisation’s new Collins Cup competition.
Triathlon
Media

Japanese commercial broadcaster Fuji TV has agreed a deal with the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) to air its flagship event, the Collins Cup
Action Sports
Industry Moves

John Grabowski has left the IMG agency to take up a position as commercial director at Move.ai, the London-based technology company that delivers AI-generated 3D animations
Tennis
Events

IMG Tennis has unveiled plans to host the inaugural IMG Future Stars tennis event next year at the Tatoï Club in Athens, Greece.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Endeavor Group Holdings, the sports and entertainment group that owns the IMG agency, has added Ursula Burns, the former chair and chief executive of international printing company Xerox Corporation and…
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Ross Hair, the experienced international broadcast executive, has joined IMG as senior vice-president, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa at the IMG Media division
Multiple Sports
Media

The acquisition of China-based sports digital agency Mailman Group and its digital sports consultancy Seven League by Endeavor represents a “really important evolutionary leap forward” for IMG, according to …
Tennis
Licensing & Merchandising

The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC), organiser of the Wimbledon Championships, has entered the non-fungible token market in a collaboration with 2013 and 2016 men’s champion Andy Murray a…
Industry Moves

Endeavor chief executive Ari Emanuel and president Mark Shapiro stepped down from the board of directors of entertainment and ticketing company Live Nation earlier this month because of anti-trust concerns,…
Licensing & Merchandising

The IMG agency has bolstered its licensing business through the acquisition of 20too Licensing, a Dubai-based specialist licensing agency
Football
Stadia

IMG and England’s Football Association have announced that they have “mutually agreed” to terminate the agency’s sales agreement for Club Wembley, the membership and hospitality programme at the home of…
Finance & Law

Newly public company reverses big pandemic-fueled loss to small net gain
Golf
Industry Moves

Roger Duthie, former global head of sponsorship at airline Emirates, has been named chief sponsorship officer at sports marketing and consultancy group Performance54