The DAZN deal was a boon for the J.League at the time, offering financial stability and an early entrance to the streaming era, but I'm skeptical that it's the right platform for the league's ambitions in the next decade. DAZN's financially beleaguered state has already looking for margin relief (price hikes, attempting to ditch J3, slashing UCL, cutting original soccer content) at the expense of subscribers, potentially hampering home penetration as fewer and fewer soccer games are shown on OTA TV.
Going forward I would love to see the J.League court better capitalized and global sugar daddies who are more willing to take some short-term hits to promote user growth, and can help with international distribution - the obvious parallel being MLS and Apple. This is prime パパ活 season for the J.League :)
The DAZN deal was a boon for the J.League at the time, offering financial stability and an early entrance to the streaming era, but I'm skeptical that it's the right platform for the league's ambitions in the next decade. DAZN's financially beleaguered state has already looking for margin relief (price hikes, attempting to ditch J3, slashing UCL, cutting original soccer content) at the expense of subscribers, potentially hampering home penetration as fewer and fewer soccer games are shown on OTA TV.
Going forward I would love to see the J.League court better capitalized and global sugar daddies who are more willing to take some short-term hits to promote user growth, and can help with international distribution - the obvious parallel being MLS and Apple. This is prime パパ活 season for the J.League :)
I came for Soccer, bit I'm staying for everything else. Nice Basho (I know nothing of Sumo)