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Barnama
16-07-2025
- Business
- Barnama
Deltatre To Acquire Endeavor Streaming, Creating End-To-End OTT Solutions Leader
BUSINESS KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 (Bernama) -- Deltatre, a global provider of streaming, digital, data, and graphics solutions for the sports, media and entertainment industries, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Endeavor Streaming from Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. The acquisition will merge the strengths of both companies, combining Deltatre's digital product suite, including D3 VOLT, FORGE, AXIS, and DIVA, with Endeavor Streaming's over-the-top (OTT) platform, VESPER, alongside their digital strategy, consulting and direct-to-consumer marketing services. In a statement, the company said the combined entity will provide a comprehensive and scalable digital service offering to clients, streamlining operations through a unified platform and eliminating the need for multiple third-party providers. Among the group's extensive portfolio are some of the world's most recognisable sports and media properties, such as the NFL, UFC, Sky, Rogers, NBA, WWE, MLB, BritBox, Bell Media, LIV Golf, ICC, World Rugby and UEFA, highlighting a shared track record in delivering high-performance, large-scale digital and OTT deployments. 'Together, we are extremely well-positioned to lead at every level of the industry. This investment broadens the value we offer to both existing and future clients. 'Endeavor Streaming is a highly respected player, and its offerings complement our services seamlessly,' said Deltatre Chief Executive Officer, Andrea Marini. Meanwhile, Endeavor Streaming President, Fred Santarpia added: 'Our platform has helped some of the world's largest sports and media organisations transition toward direct-to-consumer strategies.' Both companies have prioritised the productisation of their platforms, offering rapid, repeatable, and cost-effective solutions while maintaining the flexibility to support customised launches. The combined capabilities are expected to cater to global brands as well as regional and niche content providers. The acquisition also enhances Deltatre's global footprint, expanding operational support across key markets including the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The transaction is expected to be finalised in the third quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.
Barnama
16-07-2025
- Business
- Barnama
Deltatre Announces Acquisition Of Endeavor Streaming To Create Digital And Streaming Platform Leader
LONDON & NEW YORK, July 16 (Bernama) -- Deltatre, a leading international provider of streaming, digital, data, and graphics solutions for the sports, media, and entertainment industries, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Endeavor Streaming from Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. In bringing together these complementary and proven digital and OTT providers, Deltatre is joining its advanced product suite – D3 VOLT, FORGE, AXIS, and DIVA, which delivers multi-functional digital experiences with integrated video – with Endeavor Streaming's pure-play OTT product, VESPER. They will also unite their digital strategy, consulting, and direct-to-consumer growth marketing services.
Business Wire
15-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Deltatre Announces Acquisition of Endeavor Streaming to Create Digital and Streaming Platform Leader
LONDON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deltatre, a leading international provider of streaming, digital, data, and graphics solutions for the sports, media, and entertainment industries, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Endeavor Streaming from Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. 'Together, we are extremely well-positioned to lead at every level of the industry – and this investment underscores our commitment to broadening the value we bring to existing and future clients,' said Andrea Marini, CEO of Deltatre. Share In bringing together these complementary and proven digital and OTT providers, Deltatre is joining its advanced product suite – D3 VOLT, FORGE, AXIS, and DIVA, which delivers multi-functional digital experiences with integrated video – with Endeavor Streaming's pure-play OTT product, VESPER. They will also unite their digital strategy, consulting, and direct-to-consumer growth marketing services. The combined business will be best equipped to deliver for sports, media, and entertainment clients through a compelling and comprehensive range of digital experiences – all within a centralized partnership with Deltatre – moving away from the complexity of tactical, multi-vendor service provider deployments. The joint portfolio of clients includes many of the world's most prominent sports and media properties – including the NFL, UFC, Sky, Rogers, NBA, WWE, MLB, BritBox, Bell Media, LIV Golf, ICC, World Rugby, and UEFA – reflecting decades of experience delivering digital and OTT services with proven quality, reliability, and performance at scale. 'Together, we are extremely well-positioned to lead at every level of the industry – and this investment underscores our commitment to broadening the value we bring to existing and future clients. Endeavor Streaming is a highly respected player in our industry and its offerings are a natural complement to our existing products and services,' said Andrea Marini, CEO of Deltatre. 'I strongly believe this move positions Deltatre as a leader in delivering high-quality, fully integrated digital and OTT deployments.' 'Endeavor Streaming has established itself as a trusted partner to the world's largest sports and media companies, as they transition their businesses from linear-driven experiences into a direct-to-consumer driven future,' said Fred Santarpia, President of Endeavor Streaming. 'With Deltatre, we look forward to delivering even greater opportunities to create value for our partners in growing audiences and revenue.' Deltatre and Endeavor Streaming have also focused heavily on the productization of their platforms and services – enabling repeatable, cost-effective, and rapid deployment – coupled with a large engineering function for customized launches. Together, the companies will be positioned to continue serving the largest global platforms as well as smaller properties and regional players. The acquisition further strengthens Deltatre's global footprint with extended operational support across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is serving as legal advisor to Deltatre, and New Deal Advisors SpA is acting as its financial advisor. Latham & Watkins LLP is serving as legal advisor to Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc., and The Raine Group is acting as its financial advisor. About Deltatre Deltatre is the tech company behind the media and sporting moments that matter. Over nearly four decades, it has built the trust of many of the world's biggest broadcasters, telcos, sports teams, leagues, federations, and governing bodies. Driven to create the digital experiences of tomorrow, it continues to redefine how the value of live and on-demand sports, film, TV, and news content is maximized. It specializes in video streaming, websites, apps, sports data, graphics, and officiating systems, and clients include the BBC, Rogers, Bell Media, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Mediacorp, beIN, CPL, UEFA, ATP, NFL, DFL, NHL, MLS, MLB, and World Athletics. About Endeavor Streaming Endeavor Streaming is a global leader in premium video distribution and monetization for live and on-demand content across sports, entertainment, media and lifestyle. Through its complete end-to-end streaming platform and unique service offerings inclusive of advisory and consultancy, growth marketing, custom front-end development and more, Endeavor Streaming helps content creators, brands and rights holders transform, grow and scale their direct-to-consumer businesses. Endeavor Streaming is a trusted partner for leading global brands, delivering tens-of-thousands of major tentpole events annually including UFC fight cards and powering streaming services including University of Texas' LHN, WNBA League Pass, UFC FIGHT PASS, NWSL, and more.
The Spinoff
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
The top 20 moments from the DIVA exhibition at Auckland Museum, ranked
Bow down bitches, the true divas are in town. This week in attention economy news, JoJo Siwa is threatening to release her cover of 'Bette Davis Eyes' on Spotify. In the short video she's already released, she sounds like she's swallowed three packets of cigs and auto tuned the raspy result. She looks like she wants to fuck around and find out what being a tradwife is. Turning what I assume are her own Bette Davis eyes towards the camera as several strands of pearls threaten to engulf her head, it's clear her Gene Simmons, Karma era is over. This is what everyone is talking about right now. Next week, it will be something else. In 2025, new viral obsessions are spawned, devoured and pronounced dead within 24 hours. The average human attention span is about eight seconds, which is a perfect capsule for everyone's six seconds of fame. Everything is new, yet nothing truly is. We've never been more immersed in celebrity gossip, commentary, and access. We've also never been so context-poor and so deprived of enduring cultural meaning. Meeting this moment is DIVA, an exhibition developed by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, currently housed at Auckland Museum until October. It's the perfect example of what a museum exhibition should be in 2025. It is accessible and relevant, brimming with pop culture references and real-life spectacle you just can't experience during your daily scrolls. It presents serious hypotheses about gender, the tension between attention and exposure and the true meaning of genius and celebrity. Most importantly, it reminds us that we all stand on the shoulders of giants and that cultural connective tissue binds our past to our present. It's also a welcome boon for the museum. Two of its most popular attractions have been closed indefinitely due to the detection of asbestos, adding another item to Wayne Brown's 'Fix Auckland' list. Here are the top 20 moments ranked according to historical significance, pop culture heft and spectacle, with a few subjective calls based on when I cried, gasped and flamed with joy. 20. Exit through the gift shop The museum and gallery trick of forcing you to leave through the gift shop at the end of an exhibition might be one of my all-time favourite retail strategies. I always end up buying something. DIVA is no different. Nobody needs a $300 pair of diamante-studded glasses from Elton John's line of eyewear, but did I stop and try them on? Yes. Will I be back to purchase some prints of Nina Simone, Grace Jones, and Benny and the Jets era Elton? Absolutely. My love of retail strategy is also niche, hence the lower ranking. To be clear, the rare gems are located in the exhibition, not the shop. 19. Barbra and the purple extravaganza from Funny Girl It's the dress and the coat. So much chiffon. 18. Finding your own diva There's a red carpet and many spots for posing. I did mine in the gift shop, you do you hunny diva child. 17. The full arc of Maria Callas Two of Callas's most iconic costumes are displayed together – her blue dress from her 1952 London debut in Norma and the red gown from her final stage performance in Tosca (1965). Diva is an Italian word, and the exhibition explores its origin, weaponisation and reclamation. None of that is possible without homage being paid to the ultimate opera diva. 16. The moment you realise you're tripping the audio Moving through the exhibition, you wear a pair of pretty chic and futuristic headphones. Audio experiences at museums and galleries are pretty common these days, but a few minutes into DIVA, you realise the audio you hear along the way is being triggered by your movement through the space. There's nothing like hearing 'Pynk' by Janelle Monáe while staring deep into the folds of her vulva (pants). 15. The moment you realise you could be tripping Björk gown. The end. 14. The wall quotes So many, all good. Collect the set. Get them tattooed. 13. The early showgirl cossies The mannequins have hips! 12. Grace Jones's breastplate First created by Issey Miyake for his 1980 Autumn-Winter collection, it looks like liquid hard-moulded to the body. Various iterations of the Miyake breastplate have been worn by Grace Jones during her career, including in this recording of her performing 'I Need A Man'. 11. Nina makes me cry The selected photos and audio combine to capture a significant portion of Nina Simone's power, anger and legacy. 10. Marilyn Monroe's fringed black dress Worn when she played Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot (1959), this was Marilyn at the peak of her powers. Funny, vulnerable and pre the disastrous and tragic rekindling of relations with the Kennedys. 9. The Pierce, Davis, Garland triptych Next to a Mildred Pierce costume is a poster for All About Eve, another all-time great film starring another diva, Bette Davis. If we're talking about 'Bette Davis Eyes', I recommend staring into the real ones (as Margot Channing) instead of JoJo Siwa's. Drag queen Charles Busch once described fictional divas Norma Desmond and Margo Channing as 'powerful women fighting for their rights in a straight man's world' and the exhibition's rich recounting of the way Hollywood regarded and treated 'difficult women' is useful set up for the reclamation of the term explored in the exhibition's later stages. 8. All the Bob Mackie There are at least four Bob Mackie for Cher designs in the exhibition, one he did for Liza Minnelli for New York New York and the flame dress he made for Tina Turner. Mackie remains unrivalled in his ability to blend costume with couture. He was also a master of costume sketches, and DIVA includes many of the sketches for the creations you can then see in their full glory. 7. Realising you need to step up the game for your 50th birthday Elton John wore the Sandy Powell design featured in the exhibition to his 50th birthday party. It was so ostentatious and large that he had to be trucked in. If nothing else, it was a good reminder that birthdays should be all about you, and you should step up and into a proper frock. 6. Our very own diva For the Auckland leg of this touring exhibition, Aotearoa's own diva, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, has lent her millennium coat, worn at the New Year's Day performance she participated in as part of a 30-hour live television special broadcast to one billion people worldwide. Contains feathers and cultural touchstones. 5. Whitney makes me cry She was so beautiful and talented. The exhibition includes radiant photos of Houston and the dress she wore to the 1994 Grammy Awards, designed by Marc Bouwer. 4. The dress Joan Crawford wore in Mildred Pierce The 1945 film noir Mildred Pierce is one of my all-time favourite movies. It was one of the first old Hollywood films I watched that made me realise contemporary culture didn't have a monopoly on portraying complicated, complex, and sometimes difficult women. The dress itself, designed by Milo Anderson, was worn by Crawford in the film as she begins running her restaurant. It transitioned her away from plain, housewife garb into more structured and shoulder-padded suiting, marking her changing station and wealth. 3. The size of Prince's feet If you know, you know, but the exhibition contains a pair of Prince's shoes. They confirm Prince's likely origin as a pixie sent from on high to deliver music for the ages while emanating an ambiguous, raw and real sexual power. 2. The vulva pants I would sell an organ (if required) to see Janelle Monáe live. A high-concept fashion icon, the vulva pants worn for the 2018 'Pynk' video were peak vulva-inspired dressing, and frankly, we don't have enough of that. 1. Rihanna as pope Rihanna owns the Met Gala carpet and has done for a decade now. For the 2018 Met Gala, themed 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination', Rihanna wore a papal-inspired outfit designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela. In my humble opinion, it ranks as one of the best Met Gala themes and one of Rihanna's best looks. We don't often get to see John Galliano's designs beyond our magazines and screens here, so seeing this beaded creation in person was truly the highlight for me. Rihanna's star began rising in 2005, and she remains an enigmatic diva with enduring popularity. My one true pope. My one true diva.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Miley Cyrus Joins Beyoncé for Surprise Performance at Paris Cowboy Carter Show: ‘A Dream Come True'
Miley Cyrus came out of nowhere and didn't give no warning when she made a surprise appearance at Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter concert at the Stade de France stadium in Paris on Thursday (June 19). The 'Flowers' singer shared a video of the on her social media pages, showing the two vocal powerhouses delivering the live debut of their Billboard Hot 100 No. 6 hit 'II Most Wanted' off Cowboy Carter, with the two trading off lyrics while dazzling in complementary gold outfits. 'Didn't know what I wanted 'til I saw your face/ Say goodbye to the old me,' Bey croons from the first verse before Cyrus kicks off the chorus as the two go on to blend their voices together. More from Billboard Miley Cyrus' Magnifique Mash-Up of 'The Climb' & 'We Can't Stop,' Plus More Highlights Inside Paris Spotify Concert Sabrina Carpenter, SZA, Ariana Grande Win Multiple Awards at 2025 Kids' Choice Awards (Full Winners List) Dua Lipa Brings Surprise Guest Charli XCX to the Stage for '360' in London After her unexpected performance, Cyrus shared her excitement about taking the stage with Queen Bey in an Instagram post on Friday (June 20). '@beyonce to be beside such a humble, gracious, legendary DIVA was a dream come true. Thank you for the opportunity to perform in Paris together & sing our song about friendship,' she wrote in the carousel post, which included a clip of their performance as well as photos of the two together on stage. 'To have learned from you & loved you my whole life, & then be standing together in matching gold looks is more than I could've imagined. As the finale to this trip supporting Something Beautiful, to close on something as beautiful as a stadium full of people singing 'II Most Wanted' with us was the ultimate firework. Thank you B. I'll be your shotgun rider for life. Big gratitude to the Cowboy Carter tour crew, you all were incredible for making this happen. Forever and always.' In a separate video from backstage, Cyrus struts in her gold bodysuit. 'Little ol' me showing up in Paris in Alexander McQueen for Queen Bey. What?' she says sassily, showing off the outfit and flipping her hair. The three-time Grammy winner was already in Paris for an intimate Spotify Billions Club Live performance, which took place on Wednesday. During the set — which will be turned into a concert film — the pop star performed some of her biggest hits on the music streaming platform, and also did a surprise mashup of 'The Climb' and 'We Can't Stop.' Watch a clip from Miley and Bey's performance below: Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
