Last season, the NFL experimented with live streaming for the first time by selling the broadcasting rights for the International Series Buffalo Bills vs. Jacksonville Jaguars game in London to Yahoo. The NFL held the stream up as a success, counting 15.2 million unique viewers during the course of the game. But with three International […]
After long rumored interest in the NFL’s digital rights, it has finally become official; Twitter has won the digital streaming rights for NFL games during the 2016 season. Twitter will stream the 10 Thursday Night Football games this year that are aired by NBC and CBS, and will also be simulcasted on the NFL Network […]
Facebook is currently in negotiations with the National Football League to acquire the rights to live stream Thursday Night Football throughout the 2016 season. The social media giant is not the only online platform that is a part of the negotiations. However, it is unclear at this point if any of the contenders, Yahoo, Amazon, Verizon, […]
With the increasing popularity of live streaming and the growing trend of “cable cutters,” Yahoo has been one of the companies trying to be at the forefront of this movement towards online television. They were the first digital media group to buy the rights to an NFL game—the Bills vs. Jaguars matchup last October in […]
Without question, sport is best watched when it’s live, whether that be in first-person or simply in real-time on a screen somewhere. And, like everything in life, it’s even better when it’s free. Yahoo will deliver just this, signing a partnership deal with the PGA Tour that will see free, live action from the PGA Tour’s […]
