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There was a time not too long ago when the hot property was Daily Fantasy. The two leaders in the space, Fan Duel and Draft Kings, were spending money as fast as they could raise their millions in what looked like an arms race to see who could be the more disruptive. For one glorious …
This year the Triple Crown has lost a lot of its luster with different winners in The Preakness and The Kentucky Derby, but Saturday’s Belmont Stakes will still have big crowds and big dollars and the third leg of horse racing’s big spring comes around the clubhouse turn. As horse racing still looks for ways …
This also appeared in The Daily Payoff At last week’s Fantasy Sports Trade Association Summer Conference in New York, a crowd of several hundred, most on laptops, listened intently to sports and fantasy business leaders talk about the upward growth and engagement of consumers in and around all things fantasy, especially the fascination with …
With the Fantasy Sports Trade Association Summer Convention being held in New York Tuesday, we caught up with Nando DiFino, now the Executive Producer and Manager of Content for Anthem Media Group and their platforms on Fantasy Sports Network and Sirius XM. A young veteran of the space, Nando has helped create and manage Fantasy …
While the casual fan may think that all this “fantasy” stuff is new from a business perspective, in reality the roots of fantasy are a few decades old, and there are few who understand the history, the success, and the failures of the business better than Rick Wolf. A Fantasy Sports Trade Association Hall of …
The past few weeks have been another whirlwind of activity around the fantasy sports and gaming space. There was the news that European soccer clubs like FC Barcelona were embracing pay fantasy sports more and more, a host of pieces on FanDuel and Draft Kings reporting record quarters for engagement amidst massive marketing, the Fantasy …
There are wide ranging numbers attributed to the number of dollars spent and people who play fantasy sports in the United States, but rest assured it is in the millions. Football is king, baseball second and then it goes down from there. The major media companies have found a jackpot in monetizing and aggregating fantasy …
