{"id":7213,"date":"2017-07-01T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/twitter-inks-live-stream-deals-for-wimbledon-comic-con-coverage-and-more.html"},"modified":"2017-07-01T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T17:04:27","slug":"twitter-inks-live-stream-deals-for-wimbledon-comic-con-coverage-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-inks-live-stream-deals-for-wimbledon-comic-con-coverage-and-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter inks live stream deals for Wimbledon, Comic-Con coverage, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Twitter is continuing to grow its live streaming business, with a series of new deals announced over the past week or so, including a partnership that will bring live streams from the floor of the\u00a0San Diego Comic-Con in July, as well as behind-the-scenes action and news from Wimbledon, among several other efforts.<\/p>\n

You may recall that Wimbledon was the first live-streamed sport to pop up on Twitter\u2019s network last year, after the company had announced its $10 million deal to stream the NFL\u2019s Thursday Night Football games. The Wimbledon coverage wasn\u2019t then heavily promoted by Twitter, and was instead seen as more of a test<\/a> of how live streaming would work across Twitter\u2019s platforms.<\/p>\n

How times have changed. In the year since, Twitter has delivered a slew of live streamed sports, sports-related programming, news<\/a>, concerts<\/a>, and other events to its service, including streams from the\u00a0NFL, MLB<\/a>, NBA<\/a>, NHL<\/a>, NLL<\/a>,\u00a0college sports<\/a>, even esports<\/a>, and many more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time around, Twitter\u2019s Wimbledon deal is with the\u00a0The All England Club, not ESPN<\/a>, which is partnering with Twitter to live stream The Wimbledon Channel during the event. This coverage will include daily content, like news and interviews, behind the scenes footage, and \u201cselected action\u201d from the matches. (In other words, you can\u2019t watch the matches in full, live).<\/p>\n

The addition is one of several deals Twitter has announced over the past couple of weeks. Another notable partnership is with IGN, which will live stream from the huge entertainment event,\u00a0San Diego Comic-Con 2017, via comiccon.twitter.com. The media company will broadcast up to 13 hours of live coverage from the show floor from July 19 through July 22, Twitter says.<\/p>\n

This will include interviews from\u00a0ABC, AMC, DC, Lionsgate, Marvel, Netflix, Starz, TBS and others, including live pre- and post show commentary from IGN hosts and special guests. The coverage will also be augmented with trailers, behind the scenes footage, interviews with actors and producers, cosplay\u00a0worn by attendees, and more.<\/p>\n

The deal represents an expanded relationship between Twitter and IGN, which most recently used the social network to broadcast coverage from the esports-focused event, the 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)<\/a> in L.A.<\/p>\n

Other recent deals will bring more sports to Twitter as well, as the company is snapping up access to more niche programming, like that from the\u00a0Canadian Football League (CFL<\/a>), the Arab world\u2019s inter-club football<\/a>, and the\u00a0National Women\u2019s Hockey League (NWHL<\/a>).<\/p>\n

And previously this summer, Twitter live streamed other events of significance, like James Comey\u2019s Congressional Testimony via Bloomberg and Ariana Grande\u2019s One Love Manchester benefit concert, for example.<\/p>\n

Though a continued focus on live streaming is helping Twitter to better deliver on its mission to be the network where you go to find out what\u2019s happening now<\/em>, it\u2019s also facing heavy competition from live streaming rivals and other major tech companies when it comes to scoring the sort of flagship coverage people actually want to watch. (Canadian football is not it.)<\/p>\n

For instance, earlier this year, Twitter lost the NFL deal to Amazon<\/a>, which reportedly<\/a> paid $50 million for the rights, or five times more than what Twitter had paid last year. That\u2019s led to some criticism of Twitter\u2019s efforts in the live streaming space, with pundits saying that it just won\u2019t have the funds to keep up with today\u2019s major players \u2013 it will be outbid on the better live stream deals, that is, and left to pick up scraps.<\/p>\n

In response to the loss to Amazon, however, Twitter partnered with the NFL<\/a> on its own live video deal that includes news and highlights, but not games. This may not be the best<\/em> NFL content, but it does fit in with Twitter\u2019s news-focused reputation. It is, after all, where news breaks, is discussed, and where a large number of journalists generally hang out.<\/p>\n

Still, some of Twitter\u2019s recent announcements do make it appear that it\u2019s doubling down on sports\u2019 long tail and other smaller events that lack mainstream appeal. The company said in May<\/a> it has 200 premium live video partnerships, which seems to back up the assumption that it\u2019s doing a ton of \u201csmall potatoes\u201d deal.<\/p>\n

But while you can dismiss the individual deals as being non-consequential, the cumulative effect \u2013 or, at least Twitter hopes \u2013 is that people will begin to think to check Twitter to see if something is being live streamed. And if Twitter can gain mindshare around live video even without deals as big as NFL games, that could long-term help boost its other metrics \u2013 like signed-in users, ad dollars, and more.<\/p>\n

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