December 14th, 2012

Digital Sports Report: Perform Overtakes ESPN In Online Video Viewership, Reaching 24.5M Uniques In November

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Sports is in the process of becoming the next big market to be transformed by the digital revolution, as fans are increasingly turning to mobile devices and second, third and fourth screens to consume sports content. In August, Turner bought sports blogging and content platform Bleacher Report for an estimated $200. More recently, Yahoo and NBC forged a digital sports partnership in the hopes of… → Read More

March 10th, 2011

Is that an IPO in the air? Sports webcaster Perform plans to float

You got to love the smell of a pending IPO.

Perform Group, which webcasts and provides content for various sports both as a white label service and its own consumer-facing offering, has announced its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange. → Read More

February 23rd, 2011

Score! Perform Group buys Goal.com from Bessemer to go direct-to-consumer

It seems we only mention Google Calendar here on TechCrunch anymore when things inevitably go wrong – which means we get to cover the cloud-based calendaring service quite often, unfortunately.

We’ve been getting a ton of tips from people whose scheduled meetings and whatnot have apparently all been eaten by Google (as has The Next Web, which covered the issue of wiped out user calendars earlier… → Read More

February 23rd, 2011

Score! Perform Group Buys Goal.com From Bessemer To Go Direct-To-Consumer

Digital sports media company Perform Group has acquired football site Goal.com for an undisclosed sum to stride into the direct-to-consumer market (via PaidContent).

Perform will assume 100% ownership of the popular (and splendidly named) football community site, which logged visits from 19.4 million unique users in January 2011. The site was acquired from a consortium of investors, which… → Read More