Twitter will stream 10 Thursday Night Football games “to a global audience” in 2016 for free without authentication. That’s Huge for the NFL.
- Twitter paid around $10 million according to Bloomberg’s source (beating out Verizon, Yahoo, Amazon)
- CBS and NBC paid $225mm for 5 Thursday games each — Verizon has rights to stream to wireless phones
- Twitter video will be embeddable. Include pregame Periscope streams from players and teams
- Available on the Twitter PC, phone, and Xbox app
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