Interesting take from Endeavor's Mark Shapiro today on IMG Arena's positioning in the betting data and video rights space: "We don’t play at tier-one, trojan horse money-losing properties. Often it's a rights fee-fest to try to get sports data from some of these major leagues, and frankly the margins are too tight, there’s too much risk, and we can’t make money. "We play in the tier-two, tier-three properties and package it with our media division at IMG where we can get all kinds of efficiencies and synergies to make these profitable and strong margins. That's where we’ll continue to stay so we're very content being the number three player behind Genius and Sportradar, who have been doing it longer than anyone else." https://lnkd.in/e2pMY5EW
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