The Hype Foundation is an Israel-based organization which promotes entrepreneurship and tech innovation around sport. Since May, the Foundation has hosted eight regional competitions across the world in search of the most innovating start-up at the intersection of sports and athletic training. On Wednesday, eight finalists converged in Rio to have their own unique shot […]
While there are a number of reports on the poor TV ratings that the 2016 Rio Olympics received, NBC was mainly able to make up for these lackluster television ratings with digital streaming audiences. Nielson Media Research crunched the numbers and found that an average audience of only 24.5 million watched the Olympics every night of […]
Data and analytics have become a sexy topic in the era of “Moneyball”. Teams and leagues everywhere are finding ways to revamp their organizations with the use of data-first mindsets. The NBA is the latest example with their newly announced Hackathon where engineers, statisticians and data scientists can come together and compete for who can come up […]
When thinking of global sports technology innovation hubs, certain cities come to mind. San Francisco is an obvious epicenter, as it is with all things tech. New York and LA are also leaders. Tel Aviv certainly is as well. Addtionally, St. Louis has Stadia Ventures, Boulder has Black Lab Sports and now Minneapolis is throwing […]
With the Olympics starting this week, social media platforms everywhere are preparing for the global event. One of the leaders in generating the social content around the Games will be Twitter, who is adding a few extra features including a new “Olympics” section in their Moments tab and hundreds of emojis to add into tweets. […]
