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WXV announces global broadcast deals

WXV, a new dawn for international women’s rugby, has announced a number of broadcast deals in key and emerging rugby territories. Matches in all three divisions – WXV 1, WXV 2 and WXV 3 – will be broadcast live, with RugbyPass TV offering free streaming of any matches outside of the relevant territories. Sky New […]

October 5, 2023

TF1 scores rights for Rugby World Cup 2025, WXV

French broadcaster TF1 will show all the action from an expanded Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 being held in England, featuring 16 teams, including France who secured automatic qualification by finishing third in New Zealand last year. The deal, which extends the long-standing partnership between the sport’s global governing body and TF1, will also see […]

October 5, 2023

Premiership Women’s Rugby appoints IMG

Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) has appointed IMG to drive the development of its new digital and content channels strategy.  The partnership will focus on growing the digital audience for the Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby competition and the Allianz Cup and deepening the engagement of both Premiership Women’s Rugby and its clubs with fans in the […]

October 4, 2023

France: TFI acquires UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 rights

TF1 group has acquired the rights to the Women’s Euro 2025, which will be hosted in Switzerland in July 2025. The deal includes the linear and streaming rights in France to the 31 matches in the tournament. At the last Women’s Euro tournament in 2022, the French team’s semi-final defeat attracted more than 6 million […]

September 29, 2023

Sky: 2023 Solheim Cup most watched ever

Audience figures demonstrate continued growth in audiences for women’s sport on Sky Sports in 2023, following similar records broken for the Ashes, Women’s Super League and The Hundred. The 2023 Solheim Cup golf tournament saw history made as Team Europe retained the trophy for the third successive tournament, with a record-breaking number of viewers watching […]

September 27, 2023

Wonder Women Conference to be held with support from BAFTA

This October, the celebrated and empowering women’s network, Wonder Women TV, will hold their inaugural all-day Wonder Women Conference supported by BAFTA at their 195 Piccadilly HQ. WW is leading the charge in supporting freelancers with a full day of game-changing, career-enhancing leadership and development training during the biggest unscripted crisis in history. This inspirational […]

September 25, 2023

Research: Men worse than women at ‘stream-cheating’

Bitmovin, a specialist in video streaming infrastructure, has released research which shows that whilst many streaming viewers owned up to going behind their partners back to watch a series without their knowledge, men are the biggest cheaters (64 per cent compared with 35 per cent of women). Men however are more open about their ‘Netflix […]

August 31, 2023

Data: Women’s World Cup ad audience soars

The success of The Lionesses in the FIFA Women’s World Cup has resulted in a 254 per cent increase in addressable advertising audience in the past month, data from Quantcast reveals. The insight shows that 17.4 million addressable devices have engaged with the Women’s World Cup in the past two weeks. This highlights the rapid […]

August 18, 2023

DAZN acquires ata Football

Sports streaming service DAZN has acquired ata Football, the women’s football content platform which is backed by the Miami-based sports investment firm 777 Partners. Founded by Hannah Brown and Esmeralda Negron in 2020, ata Football has partnerships with a number of broadcasters and rights owners and allows viewers to watch matches from the Italian women’s […]

August 16, 2023

Vizrt, BBC Sport collaborate on Women’s World Cup coverage

Vizrt, a specialist in real-time graphics and live production solutions for content creators, is working with BBC Sport to showcase the Women’s World Cup.  By teaming up with BBC Sport for the Women’s World Cup, Vizrt aims to elevate the coverage and offer viewers an immersive and dynamic visual experience that truly reflects the passion […]

August 16, 2023