Sports Betting

Genius Sports has reported third-quarter net income of $13m (€12.3m) and an 18-per-cent revenue jump, buoyed by in-play NFL betting and following lucrative contract renewals with sportsbook clients.

Endeavor chief executive Ari Emanuel has led a management buyout of betting and sports data businesses OpenBet and IMG Arena for $450m (€424m), but the latter remains for sale.

Sportradar overcame a €14m ($18m) jump in third-quarter financing costs on the back of new rights deals with the ATP Tour, Bundesliga and NBA to report profit of €37m in the third quarter.

Hospitality sales related to the Paris 2024 Olympics helped boost revenues at Endeavor, where sports were the biggest driver of growth across the group in an otherwise mixed third quarter.

Stats Perform is attempting to suddenly withdraw from its agreement for betting rights to Italy's Serie A, shocking staff on both sides of the deal.

Volleyball World maintains that it is prepared to turn to its OTT platform VBTV in a major broadcast market as it continues rights negotiations in three Asian markets plus Italy.

Content Arena, the online platform for sports media rights trading, has created a marketplace for rights-holders and bookmakers to sign betting video rights deals directly.

Infront Bettor is selling betting video rights to the top two tiers of Dutch football after striking a deal for the Eerste Divisie to add to its acquisition of rights to the top-tier Eredivisie

IMG has retained the Eredivisie international broadcast rights, one of its longest-held football properties, but will be replaced by rival Infront as distributor of streaming rights to the global betting market, SportBusiness understands.

Betway Scores has become the sleeve sponsor of Fiorentina in a deal with the Serie A side that took effect earlier this month

Brazilian betting operator Esportes da Sorte has been cleared to continue as a major sponsor of club football in the country – just beating the national deadline for the issuance of betting operator l…

The Curling Group (TCG), the newly-formed venture which has bought the Grand Slam of Curling from Sportsnet, has hired Iris Sport Media to distribute the property’s global broadcast and betting rights.

Two Circles is targeting further US growth after taking on investment from Otro Capital, the New York-based sports private equity firm, and David Blitzer, the American billionaire and multiple sports team owner.

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

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

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has been banned from agreeing sponsorship deals with betting companies after the Peshawar High Court considered a petition which challenged deals with so-called ‘proxy’ firms.

Galatasaray has refuted criticism of the club's new sponsorship deal with MeritKing.news following claims of the website's ties to an illegal betting site.

LaLiga has signed up SportyBet as a betting sponsor in Africa as it broadens out a regional betting roster that already includes deals in Asia-Pacific, Central and South America, North America and South Africa.