Portugese footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo, has reached 1 billion total followers across his various social media accounts – making him the first peron in the world to do so. The number is calculated by combining his total number of followers across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Weibo and Kuaishou. It does not equate to 1 billion individual […]
Portugese footballing icon, Cristiano Ronaldo, has launched his own YouTube channel that he says will enable him to “engage further with his global fanbase”. Ronaldo is already the most-followed person on social media platforms, and among the world’s best paid athletes. On his YouTube channel, called UR, Ronaldo will share football content as well as […]
Sports production and content business, Sunset+Vine, has announced it will be producing the coverage of The Riyadh Season Cup for Alamiya Media. The Riyadh Season Cup is part of the annual Saudi Arabian state-funded entertainment and sport festival known as The Riyadh Season. This year will see a clash of the titans, dubbed The Last […]
DAZN has unvels The Phenomenon, a Zoom Sports and DAZN Studios production in association with Beyond Films. The documentary film, which will be premiered in Madrid on October 14th, answers questions that have been shrouded in mystery for decades: what really happened before the 1998 World Cup Final; why he had that crazy haircut in […]
According to a study by Sportslens, Manchester United is the most valuable social media brand in the Premier League. The club has 184, 400,000 followers across its social media platforms. These include Facebook (77 million), Instagram (59.2 million), Twitter (31.9 million) and TikTok (16.3 million). This outpaces second-placed Chelsea FC, which has 118,900,000 followers on […]
World football governing body FIFA is launching FIFA+, describing it as a world-class digital platform created to connect football fans across the globe more deeply with the game they love, for free. FIFA+ will provide access to live football matches from every corner of the world, interactive games, news, tournament information, together with what FIFA […]
Beth Rigby will interview footballer and businessman Gary Neville tonight (March 17th) at 9pm on Sky News for the second episode of her new show Beth Rigby Interviews. Former England and Manchester United defender, now famed for his straight-talking punditry, will discuss leadership, his political ambitions and share his views on the big social and […]
The Premier League has extended its coverage in the India with a renewal of its media rights arrangement with Star India. As a result of the contract extension between the English top-flight football league and the India-facing subsidiary of the The Walt Disney Corporation, Star India will continue to broadcast Premier League matches until 2025. […]
The Premier League has suspended a deal with its Russian broadcast partner to air football matches in the country. The agreement, made with Rambler (Okko Sport), takes place with immediate effect. In a statement the Premier League said: “The League strongly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We call for peace and our thoughts are with […]
Now TV, the media entertainment arm of HKT, has secured the exclusive broadcast rights for Premier League football on pay-TV for the seasons 2022/23 to 2024/25 in Hong Kong, making it the city’s Premier League broadcaster for 12 consecutive years. Now TV will continue to deliver live coverage of all 380 matches for every season, […]