This past weekend US Women’s soccer superstar, Alex Morgan, and her social team used the Facebook Live API to broadcast the home opener of her club, the Orlando Pride. To pull this broadcast off Facebook worked with the National Women’s Soccer League to pull in their current digital feed, which was previously streamed on YouTube. […]
Swedish communications and technology company Ericsson has developed a software system that will allow sports broadcasters to lay 3D graphics over the actual broadcast. What Ericsson has dubbed the Piero Augmented Reality essentially allows broadcasters of a live studio or sports game to overlay the camera view with special graphics. Get The Latest Sports Tech […]
With over 5 million residents, Belo Horizonte is the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil. It is also the capital of the country’s southwestern state of Minas Gerais. Since 1912, it has been home to América Football Club. In 2011, América FC was relegated from Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A, Brazil’s top professional soccer league, to […]
Women’s soccer has always struggled to attract the kind of TV deals and sponsorship deals that their male counterparts have succeeded in amassing over the years. Television deals are the driving component of global soccer business models. So it’s almost inconceivable that any league in the world would forego this source of revenue. But that’s […]
On February 11th, the New York Red Bulls became the first North American Sports team to launch a live-stream broadcast on social streaming platform YouNow. YouNow is a live-stream broadcasting network that allows users to visually interact and chat with people around the world. The broadcast featured midfielder Sean Davis, and attracted a gross of […]
