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Baseball in the Digital Age: The Role of Online and Mobile Content in Major League Baseball's Media Product Portfolio

This case study evaluated Major League Baseball's (MLB) media product portfolio to identify how broadcast revenues have evolved over the past decade. This research looked back across baseball's long, dysfunctional history with broadcasters in order to recognize the significance of its ambitious use of online content. While MLB had failed to fully utilize the potential of broadcasting, the league's aggressive online strategy through its Advanced Media (MLBAM) division made it the industry leader in broadcasting live streaming sports video. MLBAM expanded its online streaming video to mobile phones and iPad, further expanding the distribution of its content. This research compared MLBAM revenue to traditional broadcast revenue while analyzing the online division's role in promoting the MLB brand. This case study concluded that while MLBAM had made a number of groundbreaking developments, the league could still improve its use of embedded, shared video clips, archived footage and international marketing in order to further extend the brand equity of the MLB, its thirty individual brands and its media product portfolio.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc33170
Date12 1900
CreatorsHutton, Brian P.
ContributorsAlbarran, Alan B., Sauls, Samuel J., Jewell, R. Todd
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 141 p. : ill., Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Hutton, Brian P., Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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