Live sports has been the one area that streaming king Netflix has avoided since streaming began. But the No. 1 streamer has lately softened on that stance, and there are certainly gains to be had if it did go into the live sports arena, say experts who talked to TheWrap.
“Nothing drives sustained loyalty to a media distribution platform like live sports. Sports are an incredibly effective way to target specific audiences and sustain and develop their interest for years,” Daniel Kirschner, the co-founder and CEO of Greenfly, a digital media distribution software maker for sports leagues and teams, told TheWrap. “Netflix has the ability to create a feedback loop between live sports content and auxiliary content around live sports.”
The streaming behemoth recently announced it would make a push into live programming through deals with comedian Chris Rock in 2023 and the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2024. And Co-CEO Ted Sarandos...
“Nothing drives sustained loyalty to a media distribution platform like live sports. Sports are an incredibly effective way to target specific audiences and sustain and develop their interest for years,” Daniel Kirschner, the co-founder and CEO of Greenfly, a digital media distribution software maker for sports leagues and teams, told TheWrap. “Netflix has the ability to create a feedback loop between live sports content and auxiliary content around live sports.”
The streaming behemoth recently announced it would make a push into live programming through deals with comedian Chris Rock in 2023 and the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2024. And Co-CEO Ted Sarandos...
- 1/26/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Chris Paul, an 11-time NBA All-Star with a sizable off-court portfolio, has joined “media flow management” software firm Greenfly as a strategic investor. Paul is described as a “power user” of Greenfly’s services, as a player as well as in his charity work and as former president of the NBA Players Association. He has also been active recently as a TV producer and activist. Greenfly’s platform enables sports teams and leagues to aggregate and archive photos and video and support players’ presence on social media through real-time updates. The company provides sourcing, creation and automated distribution for clients like the NBA, Major League Baseball, ESPN and more than two dozen other sports leagues. While rooted in sports, the company has also branched out to media and entertainment, political campaigns, social causes and consumer brands. Greenfly was founded by former Los Angeles Dodgers standout Shawn Green and former video...
- 8/24/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
We first told you about Rider Strong (Cabin Fever)'s new flick The Darkening Sky way back in August, and now, just in time for Afm, the flick has gotten itself a brand spankin' new trailer.
Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman (Superbad, "CSI"), Sally Berman (Angels and Demons), Daniel Kirschner, and Lashan Anderson have all signed up to join Strong in Victor Bornia's new flick.
Synopsis
When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the “modern mythology” of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting, and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about... All while dealing with a growing suspicion that he is somehow the center of the aliens' plan.
Check out the trailer, and for more information,...
Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman (Superbad, "CSI"), Sally Berman (Angels and Demons), Daniel Kirschner, and Lashan Anderson have all signed up to join Strong in Victor Bornia's new flick.
Synopsis
When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the “modern mythology” of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting, and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about... All while dealing with a growing suspicion that he is somehow the center of the aliens' plan.
Check out the trailer, and for more information,...
- 11/2/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Cabin Fever's Rider Strong is about to deal with a lot more than just a nasty flesh-eating virus in the new indie sci-fi/horror/psychological thriller hybrid Darkening Sky. Good thing for him he has a pretty killer cast along with him to shoulder the threat from this new menace.
Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman (Superbad, "CSI"), Sally Berman (Angels and Demons), Daniel Kirschner, and Lashan Anderson have all signed up to join Strong in Victor Bornia's new flick, which is currently in pre-production with shooting scheduled for this month.
Synopsis
When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the “modern mythology” of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting, and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about.
Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman (Superbad, "CSI"), Sally Berman (Angels and Demons), Daniel Kirschner, and Lashan Anderson have all signed up to join Strong in Victor Bornia's new flick, which is currently in pre-production with shooting scheduled for this month.
Synopsis
When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the “modern mythology” of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting, and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about.
- 8/10/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Rider Strong (Cabin Fever, Cabin Fever 2) joins Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman, Sally Berman, Daniel Kirschner and Lashan Anderson in Victor Bornia's Darkening Sky, which is currently in pre-production with shooting scheduled for this month. When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the modern mythology of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about... All while dealing with a growing suspicion that he is somehow the center of the aliens' plan.
- 8/10/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
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