After early success, the NFL plans more creator-led broadcasts

More NFL games will be broadcast by creators.

After hiring four creators to host alternative broadcasts on YouTube of this season’s opening game, the league is already determining who’s next, said Ian Trombetta, its svp of social, influencer and content marketing.

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That doesn’t mean creators like iShowSpeed — one of the four hired to air the opener — are replacing NBC or ESPN. The idea isn’t so much about reaching existing fans as it is to draw in those who might never otherwise have shown an interest. Few conduits work better than that than creators — the kind of personalities who sit at the center of internet culture and drive the conversation that orbit it. 

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Before AI can think for Immediate Media, it needs clean data to think with

All the will in the world won’t make an AI strategy work without clean, structured data to back it up. Immediate Media is starting there. 

Next year’s focus is on scrubbing and unifying data across the business, said Mario Lamaa, its managing director of data and revenue operations at the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe in Lisbon, Portugal last week. 

“Our single biggest priority next year is around the quality of our data and building that so that if you are layering any agents over, you can trust what they are going to be doing,” he continued. 

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