August 12 – Brazilian sports content platform SportyNet will show Serie A next season through a sub licence deal, adding one of Europe’s grand old leagues to its offering. Via a tie up with ESPN, Serie A’s main Brazilian rights holder, SportyNet will air 76 matches from the 2026/27 campaign,…

August 10 – FIFA has hit back at what it is calling a “concerted effort” to undermine its president Gianni Infantino, who is under increasing pressure to resign over his aborted plans to privatise the World Cup and FIFA’s major events.  The world governing body lashed out at…

TL;DR Takeaways by Stream Hatchet: The Battle Royale genre is still going strong, but it depends upon just five franchises: Garena Free Fire, PUBG, Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Apex Legends Although Battle Royales hit a low of just 340M hours watched in Q4 2025 due to competition…

August 5 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has underpinned his overwhelming power over the organisation with the knowledge that the African confederation (CAF) and its 54 member associations were under his absolute control. That has been demonstrated again by his sudden summoning of senior staff for crisis meetings…

August 3 – The AFC, Concacaf and UEFA have formed a pact to force FIFA president Gianni Infantino out of the world governing body by making his position untenable. The three confederations have pledged that they will not participate in any of FIFA’s governance affairs until Infantino resigns…

July 31 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino and his FIFA administration are becoming increasingly isolated by their members with the announcement by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) this morning that it “stands in solidarity with UEFA and Concacaf”. In a hard-hitting rebuke of the proposed sell-off of FIFA’s…

TL;DR Takeaways by Stream Hatchet: TikTok Live brings in over half of all viewership for the top 10 Chinese-published games South East Asian audiences are the biggest supporters of Chinese-published games, mainly due to the overwhelming popularity of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang esports Newer releases show promise for…

July 28 – On the day FIFA President Gianni Infantino posted a 15-slide rant on Instagram accusing his media critics worldwide of “spreading hate and false rumours” and suggesting they “meditate, pray or watch a football match”, he was receiving a letter from U.S. lawmakers requesting he appear before…

July 24 – In a rambling and often disconnected press conference, CAF president Patrice Motsepe said that he would only serve two terms as CAF president and that he had no interest in the FIFA presidency. Motsepe was first elected in 2021 and was re-elected in 2025. His…

TL;DR Takeaways by Stream Hatchet: Kai Cenat’s return to streaming with Streamer University 2026 generated close to 60M hours watched over just 6 days The biggest breakout star from this year’s edition was Suburbbaby who had the 2nd most hours watched of any streamer behind just Kai Cenat…