How the biggest live sports piracy site just fell
Egyptian law enforcement has worked with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) to dismantle Streameast, a piracy network which operated through about 80...
Protest risk meets the finish line at La Vuelta
Stage 11 in Bilbao ended without a winner and with a clear message to rights-holders: protest is no longer a rare-event outlier but an...
Women’s football moves beyond purpose to performance
Women’s football has had to sell itself for a long time. In the early days, brands supported it because it felt like the right...
What the WNBA tells us about the future of fan engagement
David Dembowski, SVP at Operative, looks at how the WNBA has transformed from a niche league fighting for airtime into one of the fastest-growing...
Scotland missed the Euros. Its fans didn’t.
New data from the Women’s Sport Trust shows national-team events driving women’s sport visibility in Scotland and Wales.National-team tournaments still trump everything else for...
The women’s rugby fanbase has doubled in two years. What now?
Nearly half of today’s women’s rugby fans discovered the sport in the past two years, a shift that is reshaping who watches, how they...
Your football podcast has an FPL league – Here’s why
Experts reveal how Fantasy Premier League is helping football podcasts turn listeners into communities.Football podcasts are everywhere. From former professionals sharing stories from the...
World Aquatics has its head in the clouds
Global governing body unveils major cloud migration with Alibaba and extends US broadcast partnership with NBC, following end of Singapore 2025With the World Aquatics...
Burnley’s VR broadcast signals football’s next commercial goldmine
Burnley has announced a broadcast opportunity for supporters, promising to have marked a major step forward in how fans experience matches.Burnley FC’s new VR...
Is The Hundred England’s IPL moment or something riskier?
The ECB’s landmark franchise sales for The Hundred inject global capital into English cricket — but they also raise long-term questions about control, culture...