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David James explores lack of representation in goalkeeping in Sky Sports doc

Sky Sports has announced a new documentary, presented by football legend David James, the only Black goalkeeper to represent a senior England national team. Launching on the Sky Sports Premier League channel on May 14th, David James: The One and Only, will explore the past, present and future of representation in goalkeeping, drawing on stories […]

May 12, 2023

ITV, The CyberSmile Foundation launch campaign to tackle trolling

ITV has launched a new behaviour change campaign “Would you say it?”  to tackle online trolling. The campaign, which launches during an advert break in the England vs Brazil Women’s Football match on ITV1, will be broadcast across ITV’s channels. It has been developed in partnership with The Cybersmile Foundation, the nonprofit specialising in tackling […]

April 6, 2023

England Hockey launches OTT service

England Hockey has teamed-up with live sports streaming platform provider, Joymo, to develop and launch England Hockey TV – a new direct-to-fan digital service. The custom-built OTT digital content hub becomes the new home of England Hockey live and non-live content with match streams, highlights, short and long format video features, being made available to […]

January 26, 2023

IMG to produce England matches for Channel 4

IMG, a player in sports, events and media, will produce Channel 4’s coverage of England men’s UEFA Nations League matches, European Qualifiers and International Friendlies for the next two years. Under the agreement, IMG will produce the live match feed and highlights show for Channel 4’s remaining 14 games throughout 2023 and 2024, starting with […]

January 26, 2023

Table Tennis England production partnership with 1080 Media TV

London based 1080 Media TV has been selected as the production partner for Table Tennis England (TTE), in a 3-year agreement as part of their new initiative with their online video and streaming platform TTE.TV The agreement is part of a new impetus for the sport in England, which has set out new goals and […]

January 25, 2023

VMO2: Record year of data use on broadband, mobile

Insights released by Virgin Media O2 reveal the consumer connectivity behaviours that have shaped 2022 as Brits navigated a year of ‘new-normal’ and witnessed major, historic events from the death of Queen Elizabeth II to the Lionesses’ football success in the summer. As 2022 brought post-Covid freedoms, demand for data remained at record levels. Virgin […]

December 21, 2022

ITV: World Cup draws record streaming figures

ITV’s coverage of the World Cup  was streamed 146 million times across the tournament on ITVX and ITV Hub – more than 100 million more than the previous tournament in 2018. The World Cup drew huge audiences to ITV on television and across all devices over the past four weeks. ITV showed the biggest audience […]

December 20, 2022

System1: Brazil’s brands lift the world cup

Brazil and England have something unwanted in common this week: both nations mourn a frustrating exit from the FIFA World Cup at the Quarter-Final stage. Similar fates on the pitch, but the two countries couldn’t be more different when it comes to World Cup advertising. Brazil accounted for 8 out of the Top 10 World […]

December 15, 2022

ITV & TF1 set records with France vs England

England’s World Cup Quarter Final match on December 10th was watched by a peak audience of 23 million across ITV and ITVX as the Three Lions were defeated by France.The game drew the biggest audience of the tournament and the highest peak on any channel this year (biggest since the final of last year’s European […]

December 12, 2022By Nik Roseveare

Survey: Optimal screen size for World Cup viewing

Ahead of England’s World Cup quarter-final match against France on December 10th, a study has revealed the optimum screen size to watch the game on, as voted for by some of the nation’s biggest football fans. The data uncovered in AO.com’s Football Consumption Report in partnership with LG shows that, when it comes to the […]

December 7, 2022