As kick-off to Super Bowl 50 in Silicon Valley approaches it is evident now more than ever that the NFL has become a technology driven business. Fans consume NFL content on more platforms than ever before. Stadiums are hi-tech palaces. Athletes are squeezing every ounce of physical ability out of their natural talents. But this is just the […]
Every sports nut loves an interesting stat, and apparently that interest is enough for startup StatMuse to raise $10 million in their Series A round of funding. Now, this is no ordinary stat offering company, but one that makes intricate stats more readily available to the average person. First, StatMuse uses a special “natural language” […]
This is the second article in a two part series by Jody MacDonald a Senior Associate and sports data and technology expert at the UK’s leading sports law firm Couchmans LLP. In part 1 we looked at the market for sports data and how official data partnerships between sports bodies and data resellers work. In […]
2015 saw a number of headline grabbing Official Data Partnerships involving some of the biggest names in world sport. In the first of a two part series, Jody MacDonald a Senior Associate and sports data and technology expert at the UK’s leading sports law firm Couchmans LLP explains some of the key features of these […]
For millions of sports fans around the world viewing, posting and sharing short form video content is now central to the way they want to consume and interact with the sports they love. Worryingly for the entities in charge of those sports, demand for this content is increasingly being met by communities of fans or […]
