Dave Finocchio isn’t buying some of Mark Zuckerberg’s comments from last month’s Facebook Q1 earnings call. Zuckerberg commented that securing sports rights wasn’t a “long-term goal,” but the Bleacher Report Founder and Chief Executive Officer said on the SportTechie Podcast that he took the remarks “at kind of face value.” “Oh, I think that all of the […]
It had been reported that Facebook was potentially interested in securing live streaming rights for Thursday Night Football games over the past two NFL seasons, but according to co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, paying for “live” sports video content isn’t a “long-term goal” for the social media giant. Zuckerberg expressed the sentiments Wednesday on the company’s recent […]
Manchester United was among the early beta partners for Facebook to use the company’s new tool AR Studio, which was announced Tuesday at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference as a way to provide augmented reality. A video of fans watching on television a goal scored by Manchester United could have real-time animated effects overlaid on the video. […]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg found himself in a unique situation earlier this week as he rode both shotgun and drove a race car with NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt, Jr., approaching speeds of 175 mph. On Zuckerberg’s latest destination as he tours every state in 2017, he made a pit stop at Hendrick Motorsports before heading to Charlotte […]
The massive behemoth media company known as Facebook is currently in talks to license shows on its platform, including game shows, scripted shows and sports, according to Recode. Company executives, led by Head of Global Creative Strategy Ricky Van Veen, have been conducting meetings with television studios and video producers in an effort to further explore […]
