Los Angeles-based sports startup Sportle is trying to crack the increasingly crowded streaming space as it recently struck a deal with Italian soccer club AC Milan. The partnership will provide fans access to player interviews, press conferences and practice videos, all of which would have been available through other social platforms like Google Plus, Facebook Live […]
900lbs of Creative debuted its own virtual reality goalie simulation game for Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas. The game immerses a user in a penalty shootout situation from the viewpoint of the goalie. Using infrared sensors, the game tracks the user’s movements in real-time as they dive across the goal to block incoming shots. 900lbs released the […]
Two weeks after announcing a partnership with French online media company Webedia, France’s largest soccer club Paris Saint-Germain is diving further into eSports with the creation of PSG eSports. Led by Bora “YellowStar” Kim, the newly-appointed Head of eSports, PSG will enter teams in League of Legends, the world’s most popular eSports video game, along with soccer franchise […]
Deltatre and Sportcast are forming a new Cologne, Germany-based company called Sportec Solutions GmbH that beginning in July will do official match data gathering, storage and distribution for Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 matches. Sportcast, a DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH subsidiary, oversees the TV production of Bundesliga matches and as part of the joint venture with the media services […]
Genius Sports has long worked to deliver its live statistics tool in basketball and is now launching its Football LiveStats system to collect real-time data for Lega Serie B in Italy. The announcement came as Genius Sports became the official data partner of Lega B, acquiring the rights to distribute to the data to the […]
