The English Football League (EFL) has been working with Genius Sports in launching a new fantasy football game. Fantasy EFL now enables players to choose from over 2,000 players across 72 teams. The game will officially commence for the 2024/25 season, which kicks-off 10 August, and lasts throughout the entirety of the season ending 3 May. Genius Sports’ Chief Partnerships …
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Genius Sports names Kenneth J. Kay Chair in Board shuffle
Genius Sports has announced changes to its Board of Directors which became effective this month. Kenneth J. Kay, former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at MGM Holdings, has now become the new Chair, and will now lead the Board’s oversight of Genius Sports’ operations and strategy. Since March 2023, Kay has served as an Independent Director of the Board. Mark Locke, …
Read More »Genius Sports and IBIA join forces against global sports threats
Genius Sports will strengthen its efforts to safeguard the global betting integrity thanks to a new partnership with the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA). With a goal to also stomp out match-fixing, the alliance will instigate a strong monitoring symbiosis by combining Genius’s large data pool and proprietary sports technology with IBIA’s established capabilities of sports betting account surveillance. Khalid …
Read More »Genius Sports ups FY2024 landing on strong Q1 commercial results
Genius Sports trades with confidence as a strong opening to 2024 sees the NYSE technology group generate peak demand for its betting and media services. In its Q1 trading update, Genius raised its full-year 2024 guidance to a combined revenue of $500 million and an adjusted EBITDA of $82 million, upgrading from its previous FY targets of $480 million and …
Read More »Genius Sports launches augmented in-game highlights for Brentford FC
Genius Sports has partnered with Premier League side Brentford FC for the introduction of an innovative live match augmented reality (AR) experience that leverages in-game data streams. Highlight replays during games will now feature AR information such as shot speeds, shot trails, player names and pitch maps. Gtech – Brentford FC’s stadium naming rights sponsor – will also have its …
Read More »Genius Sports partners BetKing as in-play betting grows in Africa
Genius Sports has announced that it will power growth with in-play trading services for BetKing. The KingMakers-owned Nigerian operator will benefit from the sports technology company’s portfolio of in-play content. Head of Business Development at Genius Sports, Will Westcott, commented: “Every year, we continue to invest in delivering the highest-quality trading services for the African market. “With the value of …
Read More »Age of Automation… Genius Sports on growing sportsbook revenues on real-time liabilities
Thomas Holland, Product Director at Genius Sports, outlines how automated trading technology is enabling operators to use real-time liabilities across correlated markets to drive margin growth at scale, reducing reliance on manual limit settings to minimise risk. _________________ In many ways, the growth of 24/7 betting content has been both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, the 250% …
Read More »Genius Sports to reorganise board following Apax departure
Genius Sports has informed investors that it will review the membership of the board of directors of the NYSE-listed sports, media, data rights, and technology group following the resignation of Gabriele Cipparrone. Effective from 8 April, Gabriele Cipparrone of the London-based private equity fund Apax Partners will resign, leaving Genius Sports’ board without a representative from Apax. The decision follows …
Read More »SIS expands Genius Sports deal to bolster US esports reach
SIS (Sports Information Services) has confirmed an extension of its agreement with Genius Sports by expanding the distribution rights of its esports products to a US audience. The SIS H2H Global Gaming League suite with over 150,000 matches on offer per year can now be accessed by Genius Sports’ US sportsbook network, significantly increasing the product’s reach. Professional esports games …
Read More »HBA & Genius launch CJRFantasy racing
HBA Media has partnered with Genius Sports to launch ‘Crown Jewels Racing Fantasy’ (CJRFantasy), aiming to make horse racing competitive in the world of sports broadcasting. CJRFantasy, the first international horse racing fantasy game, has been launched to help ‘unify the global horse racing calendar’, providing broadcasters and fans around the world with a new platform to improve their knowledge, and compete with each other …
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