The best of SportsPro OTT USA day one: UFC, FuboTV, Harmonic and more

SportsPro editor at large Eoin Connolly presents selected highlights from the first day of the SportsPro OTT Summit USA.

 

He shares part of his interview on the virtual stage with UFC chief operating officer Lawrence Epstein (2.50) about the MMA promoter’s media strategy, and talks to Jean Macher, the business development director for SaaS Solutions at platinum partner Harmonic (17.59), about supporting the accelerating demands of the OTT sector.

 

There’s also time to hear from keynote speaker and FuboTV co-founder and chief executive David Gandler (31.44) about what the platform’s record financial results tell us about its future, and to get notes from NBC Sports about the benefits of stake-free gaming products (38.22), from YouTube on getting value out of highlights (41.20), and from the NFL (43.05) about what the league has learned from streaming on Twitch.