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Tackling Tech: Holiday Tech Buying: Uncertain Times for NFL Fans, Content Owners
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- Published on 27 October 2016
The lifeblood and true treasure of sports leagues is their live programming. Will potential change in multiple inter-related areas strike fear, uncertainty and doubt into the minds of buyers and content owners as the yearend holiday shopping season begins?
Tackling Tech: The NFL, Sports Tech Build Slack Teams
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- Published on 20 October 2016
The National Football League is amid a broad implementation of Slack, an enterprise messaging app credited with facilitating collaboration among internal teams and used to build online communities.
Tackling Tech: Creating Young NFL Fans: Thinking Outside the Cable Box
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- Published on 12 October 2016
The league needs to run a reverse to attract youngsters and teens that may not already follow the NFL.
Tackling Tech: The NFL's Next Gen Stats: Today and Tomorrow
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- Published on 06 October 2016
Perhaps experimenting with fan engagement in the early 1980s, the NFL presented a regular season AFC game without anyone to call it and with the only audio coming from the playing field and the stands. These were the days when you had to wait some time for a displayed score, time remaining and downs.
Tackling Tech: NFL, MLB and NBA Teams Drive Sports Tech with Accelerators
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- Published on 29 September 2016
The Minnesota Vikings are joining counterparts in Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association to enter the sports tech accelerator space with entities that provide sports tech startups with the crucial resources they need to succeed.
Word of the Vikings' "accelerator," which could spark a trend in the league, is designed to meld sports tech and funding to bring innovation and advancements to America's game in crucial areas ranging from health and safety to wireless communications, apps and analytics.
Tackling Tech: Wait 'til Next Year: Streaming Successes Can Make 2017 a Banner Year for the NFL
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- Published on 22 September 2016
The performances of Yahoo and Twitter, along with the need to enrich online TV services' with live sports should open the floodgates to broader scale streaming of NFL games next year, if the league can keep its growing list of partners happy.
The success of Twitter's streaming of a live NFL game internationally has set the table for broadcasters, sports content right holders and live streamers looking to add sports and reach a broader audience of young age groups and international audiences for their advertisers.