DAZN Group

Multiple Sports
Spain

Jonathan Davis has become the latest DAZN media rights executive to join Peak Sport Media, the joint venture set up a year ago by Spain’s LaLiga and Simon Denyer’s Ocho Sport Advisory company.
Motorsport
Portugal

DAZN, the global sports streaming service and media company, has made a significant addition to its sports rights portfolio in Portugal, a three-year exclusive deal for Formula 1 motor racing.
Tennis
MENA

Rights sales processes are being issued in Mena for WTA Tour and Fiba basketball, SportBusiness understands, as DAZN’s Broadcast Partnerships arm seeks to maximise the impact of major events in the region and end the Tour blackout.
Multiple Sports

DAZN has continued its pivot towards free, advertising-supported content with the appointment of Elena Novokreshchenova as its first ‘global chief executive of freemium’.
Football
Italy

Telecom Italia (TIM) and DAZN have renewed their Serie A distribution agreement until the end of the decade, encompassing the subscription broadcaster’s new domestic rights deal for the Italian top flight.
Golf
MENA

DAZN is to exclusively offer additional live feeds from the PGA Tour across 27 countries in the Middle East and North Africa and Southeast Asia, and will also distribute the Tour’s FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) Channel.
Boxing
Global

Joe Markowski is leaving his role as chief executive of DAZN in North America with IMG’s Michael Ridout to take on certain duties heading up the broadcaster’s combat sports activities, SportBusiness can reveal.
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Japan

DAZN has hired Yu Sasamoto as chief executive of its Japan business, one of the global subscription streaming service's most important markets
Basketball
Global

DAZN has followed up its 10-year deal to distribute NFL Game Pass with a similar agreement to carry the International Basketball Federation’s (Fiba’s) Courtside 1891 basketball OTT streaming platform globally.
Football
Japan

DAZN and Japan’s J. League have struck a new rights agreement that encompasses the third-tier Meiji Yasuda J3 League, as the sports broadcaster ups its subscription price in the country for the third consecutive year.
Football
Global

DAZN is to drop its paywall for the bulk of its women’s football coverage worldwide to create what it describes as the “new global home for women’s football” in the broadcaster’s latest move to open u…
Football
Germany

The German Football League (DFL) has voiced its opposition to the type of revenue-sharing deal recently agreed between subscription sports broadcaster DAZN and Italy’s Serie A as it continues to prepare t…
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Global

DAZN has recruited Walker Jacobs from Twitch to the newly created position of global chief revenue officer and president of DAZN’s US operation.
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Global

DAZN recorded an operating loss of $1.06bn (€969m) in 2022 on the back of increased rights fee commitments but higher direct-to-consumer revenues helped to reduce the figure by 22 per cent year-over-year, SportBusiness understands.
Football
Norway

A selection of Uefa Women's Champions League matches, including the showpiece final, are to be shown on free-to-air television in Norway
Football
Portugal

Sport TV, the pay-television broadcaster, is to return as a Uefa Champions League rights-holder in Portugal for the first time in six years next season, it has been announced
Football
Italy

Lega Serie A clubs today (Monday) accepted the new domestic media rights offer on the table from incumbents DAZN and Sky, which represent a slight drop on the current cycle and a similar fee to the one…
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Global

Veronica Diquattro, one of the leading executives at DAZN Group, has exited the sports industry to join Omio, an online travel comparison and booking website