Partners

The greatest sports opportunity is engaging new fans through the most unique experiences. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping Formula 1, Major League Baseball (MLB) and many others to build a deeper fan engagement through advanced cloud services such as Amazon Machine Learning, AWS Media Services, and Amazon Content Delivery Services. Harness the speed, agility and innovation in the cloud while only paying for what you use, and benefit from fully automated resource scaling that let you handle any size audience without significant capital investment. Instead of managing complex infrastructure, video and analytics solutions from AWS let you focus on your fans, create new content, and delight viewers a personalized user experience.

NAGRA is the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and user experience solutions for pay-TV providers, content owners and sports rights holders.

NAGRA’s extensive technology portfolio is designed to address today’s ever-evolving pay-TV and OTT market and includes:

– cloud.SSP, our advanced and modular software-as-a-service security services platform that addresses all dimensions of content and service protection for the connected world
– NAGRA’s comprehensive suite of anti-piracy services and forensic watermarking to monitor, disrupt and fight piracy of premium content at its source
– our market-proven sports OTT solution helping leagues and teams drive their social media promotion, communication and content distribution by selling directly to consumers.
– NAGRA Insight AI-based pay-TV analytics platform
– OpenTV Suite modular OVP business services solution and OpenTV Platform giving operators the tools to drive active content monetization and content management capabilities to a broad device ecosystem

Grabyo is the leading cloud-based video production, editing and distribution platform, equipping partners with the tools to manage agile video distribution strategies across all major social media platforms, mobile and OTT applications.

Trusted by major publishers and rights holders such as Sky Sports, ITV, BT Sport, Major League Soccer, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, LaLiga, The English Premier League and AELTC Wimbledon; Grabyo’s SaaS platform is designed to help digital teams maximise their resources.

Grabyo was a launch partner for Facebook Live, Periscope Producer, Twitter Amplify and has delivered more than eight billion video views for partners in 2018.

LiveWire Sport is a BAFTA winning digital agency working with rights-holders, brands and broadcasters to improve digital marketing and communications strategy and delivery. We help our clients use digital to achieve business objectives, understand audiences, grow fanbases, create commercial opportunities and measure success through latest analytics tools. Our editorial teams deliver innovative editorial, video, animation and illustration services in multiple languages and territories. Our extensive experience includes building, launching and managing award-winning digital and social platforms for major events for rights holders and broadcasters, as well as creating marketing campaigns for commercial partners and sponsors.

Launched in 2013, BT Sport broadcasts in the UK and Republic of Ireland with around five million subscribers. BT Sport offers five linear TV channels BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2, BT Sport 3, BT Sport ESPN, BT Sport Ultimate, six interactive BT Sport Extra channels and is available on BT TV, Sky, Virgin and Talk Talk. BT Sport is also available online and via the App on mobile and large screen devices and operates pay per view channel, BT Sport Box Office. BT Sport has a track record of innovation, operating from one of the industry’s most sophisticated sports TV studios, and delivering world-firsts around Virtual Reality, Dolby Atmos, 4K UHD, and remote production.

As well as being the sole UK rights holder for all of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, BT Sport offers live sport programming including the English Premier League, Emirates FA Cup, Scottish Premiership, boxing, FA WSL, Gallagher Premiership Rugby, Heineken Champions Cup and MotoGP

Here East is a catalyst for growth and London’s fastest growing innovation campus. Located at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, it is a launchpad for innovation. The former Press and Broadcast Centre for the Olympic Games, has been transformed into a thriving community of over 4,500 creatives.

Here East is home to three of the fastest growing clusters in the capital: esports, cybersecurity and the creative sectors. Tenants include: BT Sports, Plexal (Here East’s innovation centre), Fiit.tv, Sports Interactive, Ford Smart Mobility, Studio Wayne McGregor, MATCHESFASHION.com and The Trampery on the Gantry who provide 21 studios for local artists and designers. The 1.2 million sq ft campus is home to over 4,500 academics and innovators, and is designed to foster collaboration, allowing tenants to collaborate, scale and grow at pace.

Here East is owned by clients of Delancey, a specialist real estate investment advisory company.

For 20 years, Advanced-Television has been a leading news source for the digital media delivery space. News, analysis and research are delivered in newsletters, alerts, digests, on social media and via the constantly expanding b2b streaming TV service.

CSI is the leading magazine and newsletter for content delivery, providing news and insights into the global payTV and streaming video industry. At a time of unprecedented disruption, CSI helps readers navigate and make sense of this shifting video landscape.

Digital Sport is the hub for the UK’s digital sports industry. Through our website, podcast, events and social channels, we reach professionals working within the industry across clubs, agencies, rights holders, publishers and broadcasters.

Digital Sport is part of Digital Sports Publishers www.snack-media.com, Snack Media has a network of 400+ sports sites plus their social media accounts with an audience of 30M+ unique users per month and equivalent social followers.

We work with:
• Brands to create and distribute their digital campaigns
• Rights Holders (incl. The NFL) and Publishers to develop their digital fan engagement strategies, grow and monetise their fanbase
• Licence fan engagement platforms from simple fantasy leagues and predictors to video content aggregation and monetisation platforms

We also own the www.footballbloggingawards.co.uk

Digital TV Europe is firmly established as the trusted market leader for news and analysis on the digital video business internationally.

Written from a European perspective, it provides authoritative, independent information and in-depth analysis of every aspect of the digital video delivery industry worldwide.

For over 35 years, it has remained the top information choice for senior management and executives working across all parts of the video distribution value chain.

The European Sponsorship Association (ESA) is a not-for-profit membership association created to inspire, unite and grow the sponsorship industry. ESA does this through education, guidance, representation, the recognition of excellence and the sharing of best practice and performance.

Getty Images is the world’s leading creator and distributor of digital imagery, serving business customers in more than 100 countries. 30 years of unmatched experience, knowledge and understanding of sports marketing, plus the largest, most prolific sports collection available today, make Getty Images the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other digital content such as VR and 360s.

We have a track-record of working with some of the most prestigious brands, rights-holders and governing bodies in global sport, including the IOC, FIFA, PGA tour, NBA, and the RFU. Our award-winning photographers cover over 28,000 individual sports events a year, and alongside our world class commercial assignment photography, help our customers produce inspiring work which appears in the world’s media publications, advertising campaigns, television programs, books and online media.

Global Sports is the leading careers platform for the international sports industry providing individuals with the essential tools they need to increase their employability and advance their careers whilst providing data-driven digital career advertising and branding solutions to sports companies, academic institutions and training providers around the world connecting them with the quality and diversity they need to transform their business.

IABM is the international trade association for suppliers of broadcast and media technology. IABM facilitates the important networking and interaction between suppliers that shape and define the unique ecosystem of the broadcast and media technology industry. IABM supports member companies with a comprehensive range of services across market intelligence, training, events, technology, exhibitions, business standards and best practices. We hold the interests of member companies as paramount, and strive to provide strong guidance and support at every level in all geographies. We understand that in today’s rapidly changing media landscape, our members have never had a greater need for timely, relevant and effective advice and support. IABM’s mission is to be an ever more powerful beacon illuminating the way forward, highly responsive to all our members’ needs and helping them to successfully navigate change and prosper.