Amazon disclosed the season-ending viewership numbers for its 11-game Thursday Night Football NFL package and claimed victory over Twitter by average-minute audience. The numbers that Amazon provided to SportTechie indicated that the AMA tuning into NFL action on Prime Video for at least 30 seconds was more than 310,000, a number said to be 17 […]
In 2018, esports and traditional sports will continue to intersect, internet companies will double down on media rights, alternate realities will test how consumers watch sports and athletes train, and player-tracking data will be visualized in the NFL and NBA. If 2017 was the year that leagues started tracking player data, streaming companies started investing […]
Two days after NBCUniversal announced that it will expand its streaming rights for Sunday Night Football to mobile phones, ESPN announced Wednesday that is has done the same thing for Monday Night Football. The Disney-owned sports network has long had the digital rights to stream Monday games across most platforms and mobile devices, including tablets, […]
The Apple TV app starting this week will support a sports experience that enables fans to keep track of games and favorite teams in real-time. Live sports in the Apple TV app is available as a free software update for Apple TV 4K and Apple TV (4th generation), iPhone and iPad customers in the U.S., […]
The NFL is teaming up with Amazon Web Services, an Amazon company specializing in cloud-based data analytics and machine learning technologies, to uncover new ways of visualizing gameday data collected from the Zebra chips in footballs and player shoulder pads. AWS will boost the accuracy, speed, and insights provided by NFL’s Next Gen Stats platform, […]
