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Floyd Mayweather Will Live Stream His Workout Via Periscope Tomorrow

With less than a month until the most anticipated boxing match in decades, Floyd Mayweather will be will be having his media workout live streamed on Periscope by @CBSSports tomorrow, April 14, from the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas, according to CBS Sports. If you’re a boxing fan or simply curious about how Periscope can work in […]

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Periscope, Meerkat And Sports Broadcasting Rights Will Make For Interesting Bedfellows

Earlier this year, Twitter purchased and subsequently re-branded Periscope, a free application that allows users to broadcast live videos from their mobile devices. Periscope’s re-launch late last month followed the almost instant success of Meerkat, a similar application that made its debut during Austin’s South by Southwest festival in early March. It’s too early to […]

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Sports Teams Using Periscope Will Make Cable Companies Nervous

Twitter’s much-hyped launch of Periscope last week could lay the foundation for more sports fans to find different options to consume their regular sports programming offered on cable. On Saturday, the Seattle Reign FC, a member of the National Women’s Soccer League, streamed their pre-season match on Periscope. According to Reign FC owner Bill Predmore, […]

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A Look At Meerkat’s Potential In Sports

Since its launch in late February, Meerkat has been enjoying tremendous viral growth and was the talk of SXSW 2015. Meerkat is a live video streaming app that directly links with Twitter accounts, allowing people to stream a live video to their followers. Everything that happens on Meerkat happens on Twitter, all at once. The […]

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Adidas Leads The Way With New Periscope App

The tech industry has focused on live streaming recently and Adidas wants in on the action. This week Adidas became the first major sports company to use Twitter’s new live stream app, Periscope. The service was used to cover Colombian soccer superstar James Rodriquez penning a new deal with the sports clothing giant. The 20 […]

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