DAZN’S UWCL YOUTUBE CHANNEL CREATES FOUNDATIONS TO CONVERT VISIBILITY INTO VALUE AND VIABILITY, STUDY SHOWS
DAZN’S UWCL YOUTUBE CHANNEL CREATES FOUNDATIONS TO CONVERT VISIBILITY INTO VALUE AND VIABILITY, STUDY SHOWS
- Dazn and YouTube’s partnership delivers huge growth in UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) viewership, commercial interest and global awareness
- ‘Visibility leads to viability’ states Dazn’s Global Markets CEO, Veronica Diquattro
- Dazn’s UWCL live coverage to move to a pay/free hybrid mix from 2023/24 season
- 19 matches, including the Final, to remain available on Dazn’s UWCL YouTube Channel and freemium services
LONDON, 23 May 2023 EMBARGOED 11:00 BST – Dazn, the leading global sports streaming service, today published a study that demonstrated its UWCL YouTube Channel, the largest female sports channel on the platform, has stimulated significant growth not only in UEFA’s premier women’s football competition but across all aspects of the women’s game.
The Value and Impact Report, undertaken by industry specialists Crux Sports, used extensive data analysis combined with interviews from stakeholders representing all aspects of European women’s football. It established that the partnership between Dazn and YouTube to promote and develop the UWCL has seen tangible and long-lasting impacts that underpin the continued growth and success of the competition, participating clubs, and players. It also found, more broadly, that women’s football is becoming a compelling and viable sporting and commercial proposition.
Key findings include:
- Viewed in 230+ countries/territories
- 362k DAZN UWCL YouTube Channel subscribers
- 12.3m unique views
- 8.5m hours watched on YouTube
- 77% of clubs have seen a positive impact on sponsorship interest
- 65% of views from 18-34 year-olds
Veronica Diquattro, Global Markets CEO, Dazn, says: “Dazn is absolutely committed to helping grow women’s football in our core markets, across Europe, and globally. Our partnership with YouTube has been a huge success as Crux Sports’ Value and Impact Report demonstrates. We expected to see significant growth in viewership – when you combine Dazn’s production values with YouTube’s reach and UEFA’s high-level of competition it’s a winning formula.
“However, to hear about the increase in commercial and sponsorship interest, matchday attendances and visibility in other media is especially pleasing. We want to help the women’s game realise its potential, by reaching audiences, and by developing its obvious commercial appeal to create a virtuous circle of investment, growth, raising standards and overall interest.
“Building on the success of our pay women’s football plan in Spain, DAZN Victoria, we will be moving 42 of 61 UWCL matches on to paid for services globally and in our core markets. The UWCL, as well as our other women’s football properties, are high quality, have audience and command value. 19 matches – including the Final, one semi-final and two of the quarter-finals – will still be available via Dazn’s UWCL Channel, and our other free services. But we, and Uefa, feel the time is right for the competition to start finding its true commercial value. Visibility must lead to viability.”
Alison Lomax, Managing Director UK and Ireland, YouTube, says: “YouTube is the best place for every type of sports fan. Meeting fans where and when they want, whether that’s live streams, long-form match highlights, the best moments via Shorts, podcasts or features with players and athletes. Our vision is a world where women’s and men’s sports are viewed and perceived equally and equitably and the starting point is to create more demand and access for women’s sport. We are looking forward to continuing our partnership with DAZN on the UWCL over the next two seasons, strengthening the foundations we’ve built over the previous two years.”
Bex Smith, Founder and CEO, Crux Sports, says: “Crux Sports was founded on the belief that the value and impact of women’s sports and female athletes goes way beyond traditional sports metrics.
“The ground-breaking partnership between YouTube and DAZN helped bring the UEFA Women’s Champions League to new heights of visibility allowing Crux Sports to identify even broader and more significant results than expected: a positive ripple effect of increased accessibility, publicity, and growth for participating teams, players, media, sponsors and fans in the women’s game.
“We believe that the growth of women’s sports creates a more inclusive sporting culture reflective of a world we want to live in.”
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About Dazn Group
DAZN is a leading digital sports platform in Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, the US and the UK. Its wide range of content includes top-flight football from the world’s most popular competitions – Bundesliga, English Premier League, J.League, LaLiga, Serie A, and the UEFA Champions League, in addition to the biggest sports from around the world – Formula 1, NFL, NBA, MotoGP and the UFC. DAZN is the only place for fans around the world to watch every NFL match outside North America.
DAZN is removing the friction by building a super app where sports fans from across the globe can watch, read, bet, play, share, socialise, and buy tickets and merchandise; all in one place, with one wallet and one account.
For more information on DAZN, our products, people, and performance, visit www.dazngroup.com.
About YouTube
Launched in May 2005, YouTube’s mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world. We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share and build community through our stories. YouTube is a Google company.
About UEFA
UEFA – the Union of European Football Associations – is the governing body of European football. It is an association of associations, a representative democracy, and is the umbrella organisation for 55 national football associations across Europe. Its objectives are, among other things, to deal with all questions relating to European football, to promote football in a spirit of unity, solidarity, peace, understanding and fair play, without any discrimination on the part of politics, race, religion, gender or any other reason, to safeguard the values of European football, promote and protect ethical standards and good governance in European football, maintain relations with all stakeholders involved in European football, and support and safeguard its member associations for the overall well-being of the European game.
Media Contacts:
Dazn: Dan Johnson, dan.johnson@dazn.com
YouTube: Zayna Aston, zayna@google.com
UEFA: UEFA Media & Public Relations, media@uefa.ch