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Australia: Optus Sport secures La Liga rights

Optus Sport has securing the exclusive Australian rights for La Liga, Spain’s top flight football league. The multi-year deal to stream La Liga Santander gives Optus Sport an additional 380 matches per season from La Liga live and on-demand, in full HD, and will also include live select matches from La Liga SmartBank, Spanish football’s […]

June 27, 2022

Australia: Optus Sport scores Euro 2024 rights

Optus Sport has bolstered its football offering by securing the Australian media rights to UEFA Euro 2024. The tournament is scheduled to take place in Germany in June and July 2024 and Optus Sport will stream every match, live and in full. Optus Sport was the Australian rights holder to the record-breaking Euro 2020, which […]

June 7, 2022

Australia: SVoD revenue to reach $3.2bn in 2026

SVoD revenue in Australia is forecast to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.3 per cent from $1.9 billion (€1.68bn) in 2021 to $3.2 billion in 2026, driven by solid growth in subscriptions and unique SVoD households, and steady rise in average monthly revenue per unique SVoD household, according to GlobalData, a […]

December 17, 2021

Optus Sport extends EPL, WSL rights

Australian multiplay telco Optus Sport will continue streaming its exclusive coverage of the world’s best football to its one million plus active subscribers. The renewals lock in Optus Sport’s Premier League rights for six years until 2028, and FA Women’s Super League until after the FIFA Women’s World Cup into 2024. The announcement means Optus […]

November 19, 2021

Optus Sport secures Women’s World Cup 2023 rights

Football’s governing body FIFA has awarded the exclusive rights in joint host country Australia for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 to Optus Sport. As part of the agreement, multiplay telco Optus will show all 64 matches of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, the biggest event in the international women’s game, on its Optus […]

June 4, 2021