Fanatics Streams NFL Games Through Their Sportsbook App

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - Let's move over to Fanatic,

00:04 a company that's trying to kind of work their way

00:08 into the sports betting stratosphere here in 23 and 24.

00:11 I found the story that you guys had

00:13 on Legal Sports Report very compelling

00:15 and I wanna learn more.

00:16 What's going on here?

00:17 Fanatics is able to stream NFL games through their app.

00:21 How does this work?

00:23 - Yeah, so it's part of a deal that they have

00:27 with Genius Sports, which is the provider

00:32 of official league data for the NFL.

00:36 If you recall, Caesar's app did this last season.

00:41 No official announcement from Fanatics on this,

00:46 but obviously Sam Quillen over at Legal Sports Report

00:51 wrote the story and had some pretty solid intel

00:54 that they are in fact streaming games

00:58 through the Fanatics Sportsbook app

01:01 in Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, and Tennessee,

01:05 where they operate under that Fanatics Sportsbook brand.

01:10 Now, of course, Fanatics bought out

01:16 the US assets of PointsBet.

01:18 So as these PointsBet app starts to become more popular

01:23 and starts to make that transition over,

01:25 it's important to mention that if you're in a state

01:29 where it's the PointsBet by Fanatics experience,

01:34 those apps are not streaming these NFL games.

01:39 So like Sam mentioned in the article,

01:43 you have to place a wager, at least a dollar,

01:46 on one of the NFL games and it needs to be airing

01:50 in your local market.

01:53 So if it's a local team or one of the prime time games,

01:57 you'll be able to stream that game right in the app.

02:00 And of course, this is a big part of the tech conversation

02:05 when it comes to sports betting,

02:07 the immediacy, right?

02:09 How quickly can we live bet a game?

02:12 What's the latency between the online feed

02:14 coming through the app or over the TV?

02:17 So certainly something interesting to keep an eye on

02:20 as we move forward and see how this expands.

02:24 It's likely that DraftKings and FanDuel

02:27 are working on doing the same thing

02:31 or at least something similar.

02:33 So more content in the hands of sports bettors

02:38 and we're starting to see those trends from the tech side

02:42 and from the live betting capability.

02:45 So something that we'll be watching

02:48 over at LegalSportSupport

02:50 and hopefully we get some more information on this

02:54 in the coming weeks and months.

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