Global Sports Media Market 2024-2030

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    GLOBAL SPORTS MEDIA MARKET

     

    KEY FINDINGS

    • Long term future prospects of sports media market remain bright with the ever growing increase in popularity of sports tournaments attracting in many new audiences across regions
    • Covid had drastically impacted the sports market in the short term, however marketeers and sports companies found new ways to engage fans through playing archived content among others
    • Leveraging digital tools to drive new sports revenue streams remain crucial for media companies to survive who received a serious blow due to match cancellations and postponed schedules owing to COVID-19
    • esports is expected to become bigger in the the coming years with a positive push provided by the pandemic. Many players and companies have resorted to e-sports owing to the immense consumer traction it generates
    • Sponsorship deals of major teams have been of prime importance as many brands like that of Nike, Budweiser, Coca-cola has been able to form mutually beneficial long term relationships with leagues by generating more and more traction for these leagues and attracting new audiences
    •  Traditional players like Disney and NBC now face tough competition from live streaming platforms like Amazon prime, dazn over broadcast rights with shifting consumer preferences
    • Alternatively, these major players have also tried to expand into digital spheres via partnership deals and mergers in order to stay relevant in the market, say Disney coming up with its own streaming platform, Espn+Digital media is expected to outgrow other forms of sports viewing owing to its accessibility and convenience it provides to its audience
    • Digital media is expected to outgrow other forms of sports viewing owing to its accessibility and convenience it provides to its audience

     

     

    OVERVIEW

    • Fuelled by technological developments in broadcasting and communications more generally, this repackaging of sport as a commodity has expanded into a global business that effectively functions as a specialized division of the entertainment industry.
    • The ever increasing demand of broadcasters for sports programming has produced a ‘sports-media-business’ nexus that is largely built upon the widespread appeal of sport.
    • The omnipresence of media sports and the massive money invested in the game produced the current market structure as a result of which professional sports have built an unhealthy degree of dependence on this lucrative source of income.
    • The development of new media technologies and the spectacular growth in revenues from the sale of broadcast rights have marked the intensification of the economic relationship between sports and the media, one that clearly became dominated by financial and commercial imperatives.
    • As a result of the growing mediatisation and corporatization of sports institutions, spectator sports were no longer considered the ‘core’ since sports media, broadcast rights and sponsorship agreements, which were originally regarded as by-products, became the primary economic interest of sports events organizers, federations and individual clubs.
    • Most clearly, the economic impact of sports media on society is reflected in the substantial audience ratings for sports programming, the explosion of sports media outlets and their online presence, and the multibillion dollar value of broadcast contracts and sponsorship deals.

     

     

    INTRODUCTION

    Over the last couple of decades, one of the most significant trends in the global audiovisual market has been the growth of sports coverage. This has gone hand in hand with the general commercialization of sport and has developed at an ever increasing pace since the worldwide liberalization of audiovisual markets.

     

    The expansion of sports media, television in particular, has made sport omnipresent in most, if not all, countries. In effect, the enormous popularity of sport has become a substantial economic resource and this has driven the economy of professional sport in such a way that it is now heavily reliant upon the income generated by broadcasting, sponsoring and merchandising.

     

    Consequently, sports as an economic sector has transformed from the traditional model into the more global Media-Corporations-Merchandising-Markets (MCCM) model that primarily relies on the exploitation of media rights, sponsorship and merchandising, and no longer depends on a direct, monetary exchange with spectators.

     

    In the United States,gate revenues outweigh television income since several professional sports leagues, including MLB (baseball) and NBA (basketball), prefer the benefits of free-to-air broadcasting to pay- television services. Whereas media revenues dominate the European sports industry.

     

     

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    Spurred by the enduring globalization of mediatised culture, sports have been transformed into a cultural commodity for sale on the ever growing marketplace with fans being upgraded from just being ordinary consumers. 

     

    Consequently, this commercialization of sports has evolved into a dynamic global business environment and created a large economy of sport-related products.

     

    Today, the sports industry has developed into a wide-reaching business affecting multiple economic branches with numerous stakeholders, including sporting organizations, media corporations, marketing agencies, health organizations, clothing manufacturers and travel agencies, competing for a share of this lucrative market.

     

    This sports industry has been described as an atypical one with committed sports fans maintaining high levels of consumption and payments regardless of sports success.

     

    The proliferation of a worldwide economy involved in the production and marketing of sports goods and services has resulted in the development of a sector that generates large macroeconomic effects and heavily contributes to regional development policies.

     

    GLOBAL SPORTS MEDIA MARKET SEGMENTATION

     

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    GLOBAL SPORTS MEDIA MARKET DYNAMICS

     

    SI No Timeline Company Updates
    1 December 2021 Lifetime LifeTime has decided to open a new 100,000 square-foot athletic resort destination as a part of the 80-acre Craig Ranch development in McKinney.
    2 November 2021 Eleven Sports Media New York City FC has teamed up with the Eleven Sports Media in order to launch a comprehensive platform for small business and also became the jersey partner for the NYCFC Academy teams.
    3 July 2021 Lifetime Lifetime Athletic has opened a new 120,000 square foot Resort Experience at North shore and South shore Sea Coast Area. 
    4 June 2021 Lifetime Lifetime and GreenStreet have been merged to open a new 62,000 square-foot Lifetime athletic club in Downtown Houston.
    5 May 2021 Lifetime Lifetime NoHo has been opened which is located at Cooper Square and has 17,000 square-feet with group fitness, cycle and yoga studios and a spacious fitness floor for cardio and other applications.
    6 April 2021 Lifetime Lifetime has partnered with Gameface in order to offer Sports Performance training for Athletes.

     

     

    RAPIDLY CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE

    Sports will always be a mass consumer good. Demand for live sports -related content has never been higher than it is now.

     

    The Premier League’s 2020 social engagement was up 146% despite a reduction in post volume.  All US leagues have followed a similar trend – NBA drawing 119% more engagements across 13% fewer social posts.

     

    Recent Bundesliga behind closed doors matches have seen 34 x the number of viewers on BT Sport in the UK than average broadcasts. So in the longer term sport will still serve as a transformative communications platform for businesses to culturally represent their brand in richer contexts.

     

    Media consumption of such content is expected to remain high. There is likely to be an acceleration of longer-term structural changes, including changing consumer media consumption habits, use of digital platforms, and reduction in traditional sport ‘offline’ media and advertising models.

     

    Online media is spiking and it’s newer forms of media that are likely to continue being used. Online video and gaming have the greatest staying power after the outbreak ends among Gen Z and millennials especially. Similarly this presents an opportunity for teams and leagues who have had the presence of mind to develop their own OTT subscription services.

     

    Many (e.g. NBA, NFL, F1) have offered free short-term use of their premium & exclusive OTT services. This has a dual role, as they can be seen to be doing entertaining and doing the right thing for their fan communities, but also more cynically, with the hope that many fans who have signed up will keep their subscription as fees kick in after the pandemic.

     

    Like any subscription service, cable or OTT, quality and volume of content is of utmost importance in retaining subscriber bases.

     

     

    THE EVOLUTION OF ESPORTS

    There has been a 27% increase in video streaming worldwide. However, it’s not just TV & movies people are streaming. Gaming viewership is up by a considerable amount during peak hours in developed countries.

     

    Covid-19 has only accelerated this trend with people finding themselves quarantined at home. As well as gaming, professional eSports around the world are seeing a huge spike in viewership over the past few weeks as they fill the void left by cancelled live sport competitions for some viewers.

     

    While properties across sports have lost out on sponsorship revenues as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, those within esports have bucked the trend with an overall increase in revenues this year.

     

    Esports was seeing rising popularity anyway, enticed by high viewership figures and the opportunity to reach a millennial demographic, but it has also been better able to cope with the impact of the virus, and has had the opportunity to capitalize on gaps in the sporting calendar.

     

    The lack of sport has allowed developers to build their presence among sports fans who ordinarily would be consuming traditional sport content. As such, this has provided brands with an alternative platform to engage themselves with, even at a time of extreme short and long-term economic uncertainty.

     

    BMW – ESPORTS, ‘UNITED IN RIVALRY’ BMW has partnered with five of the world’s top eSports organizations, with teams competing in League of Legends. The move was most likely agreed long ago, but is a recognition of the growth of eSports, particularly in lights of its growing online reach in the wake of Covid-19

     

    ESL PRO LEAGUE ESL Pro League, which ran from Mar16 – Apr 12, was the most successful season in the competition’s history. Viewership hit a new record of 489,120 concurrent viewers across all platforms Average audience per minute was 164,494, a 215.5% increase compared with 2019

     

    This is incredibly encouraging for broadcasters, leagues and teams who are preparing their comeback behind closed doors and provides a huge opportunity for advertisers looking to tap into these markets.

     

     

    CONTENT CONSUMPTION FOR SPORTS RELATED EVENTS IS ON THE RISE

    With a lot more time on their hands and no live sport to watch on linear channels, fans are still as passionate and hungry as ever for sport and are turning to video content to get their fix.

     

    This increase in demand has led to leagues opening up their archives across owned and social media channels, launching virtual competitions and events, and athletes providing challenge and workout content.

     

    In-house media teams at leagues and clubs across all sports have been quick to pivot and harness the immediacy, flexibility and interactive nature of social and video streaming platforms to experiment and drive engagement with fans while the uncertainty of live sports remains a constant in these changing times.

     

    Athletes are creating workout videos, tutorials and other lifestyle focused content for distribution across their own, their teams’ and their sponsors’ social accounts.

     

    There’s a lot that sports organizations, sports media rights owners and brands can be doing to engage fans despite disruptions. The most important of which is offering them exclusive content, redistributing old content, and promoting live interactions with athletes.

     

    The Premier League social engagement was up by 146% despite fewer volume of posts. The NBA had drawn more engagements across fewer posts.

     

    The NFL increased both its volume of posts for social and video, attracting 37% more video views, and 41% more social engagements overall. ESPN: “The Last Dance” reached record breaking audiences across the world, averaging 5.8 million viewers across premieres of its first six episodes on ESPN.

     

    SPONSORSHIP TO PARTNERSHIP

    In the new Sponsorship Paradigm, audience data, compelling content and connection to business objectives are the winning traits. Sponsorships are continuing to evolve into richer, two-way relationships. The market had already been trending in this direction, but today the most successful sponsorships are proper partnerships.

     

    Sponsorships have become more flexible and tailored, and includes more value-in-kind. Brands too seek rights holders that understand their business strategies and can align sponsorships with them.

     

    Rights holders invest more in digital content and activation capabilities, in order to engage fans, collect data and service sponsors. Rights holders that can prove their value using data is expected to take larger shares of the sponsorship revenue pie.

     

     

    MARKET DRIVERS

     

    TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

    The ability of sport organizations to connect directly with fans and know exactly who the fan is has proved to be favourable for both parties. Virtual Reality today has the ability to enhance the spectators’ Experience and give them a real time user experience.

     

    Sports organizers are trying to implement virtual reality (VR) technology to improve the spectators’ experience in sporting events. Virtual reality generates images, sounds and other sensations that simulate a physical presence in an imaginary environment.

     

    Clubs and teams are experimenting with simulated and 360-degree environments to enhance the match viewing experience of the spectators by allowing them to have a virtual walkthrough of the stadium or the race track and view the match at different angles.

     

    For instance, the NBA game between the Sacramento Kings and San Antonio Spurs was broadcasted in VR and proved to be a massive hit. NASCAR has also created an interactive fan area at the race tracks with the implementation of virtual reality.

     

    THE GLOBALISATION OF INTERESTS

    The increasing importance of Consumer interests and consumption patterns in China and India, but also Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America is expected to lead the pathway to change in this segment. On the backend, however, sports businesses and publishers are frantically coordinating large sums of data for each club to meet their fans’ expectations.

     

    It is no wonder that more and more organizations within the sports industry are moving to automated reporting through natural language generation thus widening their user reach and engagement to a mass level.

     

    The engagement of new demographics in this regard and the rising importance of their tastes, values, preferences and consumption- specifically millennials, Genz and women is expected to further transform the way sports media is consumed in the forthcoming years.

     

    RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS IN ELECTRIC SCOOTERS MARKET

    SI No Timeline  Company/Network New Trends
    1 December 2021 Livenow In the Mena region, Livenow has been launched in order to bring further growth in the media and entertainment market.
    2 December 2021 Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Sports Network has launched the Prime Volleyball Jahaan and Public Wahaan for the upcoming Rupay Prime Volleyball League.
    3 December 2021 Lifetime Lifetime has expanded nationwide for the launch of Virtual Weight loss Programs for this Holiday Season.
    4 November 2021 Lifetime Lifetime has announced the new National Grand Prix Cycling Race series for Elite cyclists with a grand prize of $250,000.
    5 September 2021 Lifetime Lifetime has launched the GameFace Training which is a new nationwide Youth Athletic Training Program. 
    6 September 2021 SLING TV SLING TV has collaborated with Barstool Sports. The Barstool Sports Channel will be available for SLING subscribers and SLING free users.
    7 August 2021 SportsGrid Network SportsGrid Network will give 24 hours of daily programming on sports betting and fantasy sports in nine Nexstar markets.
    8 March 2021 Four prominent female athletes have joined to launch a new media known as ‘TOGETHXR’ in order to raise the voices of women in sports. 

     

     

    COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

     

    SI No Timeline Company Updates
    1 Q3-2021 Lifetime The total revenue of Lifetime at the end of the third quarter was $385.04 million and in 2020 the total revenue was $231.03 million.
    2 June 2021 Maruhan The Fiscal year ended in March had a Net sales of ¥1.10 billion and in the previous year the net sales was ¥1.50 billion. 

     

    The sports industry is made up of a large number of diverse, smaller players across vastly different markets. Some sell sporting goods and apparel, while others are club franchises or media distributors.

     

    COMPANIES PROFILED

     

    Sl no Topic
    1 Market Segmentation
    2 Scope of the report
    3 Abbreviations
    4 Research Methodology
    5 Executive Summary
    6 Introduction
    7 Insights from Industry stakeholders
    8 Cost breakdown of Product by sub-components and average profit margin
    9 Disruptive innovation in the Industry
    10 Technology trends in the Industry
    11 Consumer trends in the industry
    12 Recent Production Milestones
    13 Component Manufacturing in US, EU and China
    14 COVID-19 impact on overall market
    15 COVID-19 impact on Production of components
    16 COVID-19 impact on Point of sale
    17 Market Segmentation, Dynamics and Forecast by Geography, 2024-2030
    18 Market Segmentation, Dynamics and Forecast by Product Type, 2024-2030
    19 Market Segmentation, Dynamics and Forecast by Application, 2024-2030
    20 Market Segmentation, Dynamics and Forecast by End use, 2024-2030
    21 Product installation rate by OEM, 2024
    22 Incline/Decline in Average B-2-B selling price in past 5 years
    23 Competition from substitute products
    24 Gross margin and average profitability of suppliers
    25 New product development in past 12 months
    26 M&A in past 12 months
    27 Growth strategy of leading players
    28 Market share of vendors, 2024
    29 Company Profiles
    30 Unmet needs and opportunity for new suppliers
    31 Conclusion
    32 Appendix
     
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