StreamTime Sports

Nick Meacham and Chris Stone analyse the past week’s sports media news before Sean Conroy, EVP North America at Genius Sports, joins Tom Bassam for part two.

Minal Modha, consumer research lead at Ampere Analysis, joins the StreamTime Podcast to discuss the growth of women’s sport and the role broadcasters and brands have to play in driving it forward.

This week’s StreamTime Podcast also covers the rising influence of TikTok in sport and Bruin Capital’s decision to move on from Deltatre.

SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone return to review some of the past week’s major stories in sports media. After Uefa announced new broadcast deals in some of its key markets for the next Champions League commercial cycle, the pair assess the implications of the governing body’s agreements in the UK with Amazon, BT Sport and the BBC. In addition, they consider Formula One’s rising value in the US after reports emerged of a three-year media rights extension with ESPN worth as much as US$90 million a year, a figure driven by competition from the likes of Amazon, Netflix and Comcast. The episode also covers YouTube’s future areas of focus, how Netflix’s adoption of AVOD could impact sport, and the addition of Fifa+ to connected TVs.

Seven League’s Charlie Beall sits down with SportsPro’s Nick Meacham and Chris Stone for an in-depth discussion about the opportunity for sports properties to drive engagement in virtual environments.

The guest on this week’s StreamTime Podcast is Lucas von Cranach, the chief executive and founder of soccer media platform OneFootball. In part one of the show, SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone reflect on a landmark ten-year broadcast deal between Major League Soccer (MLS) and Apple, which has made its biggest play in live sports to date by securing global rights to every MLS game for a reported US$250 million a year. Then, after seeing the business he founded in 2008 secure unicorn status back in April, von Cranach joins Meacham to discuss the evolution of Berlin-based OneFootball, which has rights in various territories to show leagues such as Portugal’s Primeira Liga, the Belgian Pro League and Liga MX. Plus, having recently secured a deal to become the Bundesliga’s non-fungible token (NFT) partner, von Cranach also explains how OneFootball plans to tap into the expertise of new investors such as Animoca Brands and Dapper Labs to maximise the Web 3.0 opportunity.

This week’s StreamTime Podcast sees host Nick Meacham and SportsPro community lead Chris Stone catch up on some of the big media stories in golf and motorsport.

For the latest episode of StreamTime, SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham welcomes on Kevin Jones, chief executive of Blue Wire Podcasts, to dive into the business of the sports podcast. Before that, in part one, Meacham and SportsPro senior content manager Chris Stone discuss the strategy behind Overtime’s new OT7 football league; why are Warners Bros Discovery selling PGA Tour rights to Sky Sports; the thinking behind LIV Golf’s broadcast model; DAZN’s new pricing structure and why TikTok is launching paid content. In part two, Jones, who oversees an operation managing more than 250 sports podcasts, provides a 101 on the business.  The conversation spans how Blue Wire supports its talent with the production and commercialisation of their audiences, what brands are spending money on and why athletes are so fond of the medium.

SportsPro’s media and technology editor Steve McCaskill returns to the StreamTime Podcast with chief executive Nick Meacham and senior content manager Chris Stone. The trio discuss what BT and Warner Bros Discovery’s joint venture means for the UK sports rights market, how the pair will work together in the short and long term, and whether the combined effort poses a threat to Sky. Then, Meacham sits down with Arielle Chambers, the founder of HighlightHER, Bleacher Report’s multi-channel media brand shining a light on female athletes and teams. In what is the latest instalment of the StreamTime Podcast’s Gen Z series, Chambers discusses how HighlightHER has built an audience around women’s sport, collaborating with Bleacher Report, and creating content that younger fans want to see.

The guest on this week’s StreamTime Podcast is Russell Wolff, the executive vice president and general manager of sports streaming subscription service ESPN+. First, SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and senior content manager Chris Stone pick out some of the more interesting stories from recent weeks. They cover Google’s reported interest in the Indian Premier League (IPL) rights, as well as the moves being made in Germany by S-Nation, the new streaming platform launched by former German Football League (DFL) chief executive Christian Seifert. Then, Wolff joins Meacham to discuss the role of ESPN+ in the wider ESPN business and how the Disney-owned company is preparing to go all-in on direct to consumer. Plus, Wolff draws on his experience heading up ESPN’s international business to discuss the broadcaster’s strategy overseas, while there’s also time to cover how Disney decides what content to put on what platforms, how betting will be integrated into ESPN+, and the role of advertising on the service.