Genius Sports has exceeded its H1 trading expectations, prompting the firm to upgrade its guidance for the remainder of 2023 and project full year revenue of $410m. Publishing its interim H1 trading results, the NYSE sportstech and data provider reported revenue of $184.1m for the first six months of the year, a 17% increase from $157m in 2022. The company …
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DFB, the German Football Association, has strengthened its partnership with Genius Sports to enhance its capabilities against match-fixing and betting-related corruption. Since 2019, Genius Sports has been instrumental in arming DFB with its state-of-the-art Bet Monitoring System – a state-of-the-art system which analyses global odds movements in more than 7,500 games annually using predictive algorithms and automatically flags any potentially …
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IMG Arena has signed a multi-year agreement with the German Football Association (DFB) to distribute content to the sports data and fan engagement platform’s network of sportsbook operators. Commencing with the 2022/23 season of the tournament, IMG Arena will gain streaming and fastpath data rights for all 63 matches in the DFB-Pokal – Germany’s national knockout cup competition. “We are …
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IMG Arena has been appointed as the official fast betting data partner for 19 European football leagues and 44 competitions. The deal sees the sports content and technology business gain access to live game data in stadiums from around 8500 matches a season and distribute this to sportsbook operators globally. This includes top and lower tiers of domestic leagues, domestic …
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Highly experienced executive Denise Parkinson will join digital sports media company OneFootball in the newly established position of Global Entertainment Director. Parkinson has had a distinguished 25 year career in media and will bring great expertise to the company, having held positions as Head of Entertainment at TI Media from September 2019 to December 2020, Entertainment Director at The Telegraph …
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Swiss federal prosecutors have issued an indictment against three former German Football Association (DFB) officials after a number of investigations into a suspect payment linked to the 2006 German World Cup. The indictment has suggested that the officials had reportedly misled the DFB over a €6.7m payment, with allegations having been made implying that the payment was a means of purchasing votes in …
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GVC Holdings’ European online sportsbook property bwin, has confirmed a four-year extension to its existing partnership with the Deutscher Fussball Bund – DFB – German Football Association. Extended to December 2022, bwin will continue to act as ‘official DFB betting partner’, securing extensive brand coverage across Germany men/women’s national football team matches. In addition, the bwin brand secures advertising rights …
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The German Bundestag (lower house of parliament) has strengthened the nation’s code on match-fixing and sports corruption by introducing new laws that make it a ‘crime to conspire to fix sporting events’. Passing its new regulations which set tougher sentences for individuals found guilty of attempting to unlawfully influence an event, Bundestag laws may hand out sentences of up to …
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