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Apple and Major League Soccer Launching MLS Season Pass in February 2023
The Season Pass will include every live MLS regular-season match, the playoffs, and the Leagues Cup, with no blackouts. Apple says that the MLS Season Pass will bring MLS to a much bigger worldwide audience.
“There isn’t a more perfect time to introduce MLS Season Pass, coming off the heels of the most dramatic MLS Cup in history and with MLS as the fastest-growing soccer league in the world,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Services. “We’re counting down the days to February 2023 when fans everywhere can enjoy MLS Season Pass on billions of devices — all with no blackouts.”
Apple and Major League Soccer have inked a deal for a 10-year partnership. All 29 MLS clubs will have an Apple TV patch in a different color to mark agreement.
The MLS 2023 regular season will begin on February 25, with the 2022 MLS Cup champions Los Angeles FC to face off against the LA Galaxy at the Rose Bowl Stadium. All matches during the opening weekend will be free to watch through the Apple TV app.
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Soccer Story’s football RPG adventure will kick off on November 29th
Football has been banned and only one person can save it. No, it’s not the self-important fantasy Cristiano Ronaldo dreams every night, it’s the setup for adventure RPG Soccer Story. You need to travel around its colourful, Nintendo-inspired world, cajole people into kicking balls once more, and then defeat them on the pitch. Soccer Story also now has a release date: November 29th.
Apple’s reportedly building an advertising network around its Major League Soccer deal
Apple’s building an advertising network as part of its deal to start streaming Major League Soccer (MLS) games next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources familiar with the situation told the outlet that Apple’s in talks with advertisers and MLS sponsors to display ads during soccer games and “related shows.”
Apple struck a 10-year deal with the MLS in June and will start streaming soccer games through its Apple TV app in February 2023. While the company plans on introducing a separate, Sunday Ticket-like subscription dedicated to streaming every MLS game, it says it’ll make a “broad selection” of MLS and Leagues Cup matches available to Apple TV Plus subscribers, with a “limited number” available for free.
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Apple to Expand Live TV Advertising for Major League Soccer Deal
Back in June, Apple announced a 10-year partnership with Major League Soccer, which will see all matches streamed through the Apple TV app starting in 2023. Apple is now talking with advertising partners and MLS sponsors about ads that will air during the soccer games and related shows.
All three streaming tiers will have ads, including the dedicated package, paid TV+ subscriptions, and the free TV app.
Bloomberg says that ads for live TV are part of Apple’s aggressive push into advertising. Apple recently added new ads to the App Store Today tab and to individual app pages, a move that has been unpopular with developers due to some of the ad types Apple has opted to show.
Apple is also working on a plan to add search ads to the Apple Maps app on iPhone starting next year, with these ads showing up alongside user searches for things like “gas” or “coffee.” Bloomberg says that Apple is also exploring ads for other apps and services.
Apple’s ad business generates around $4 billion annually at the current time, but the company is aiming to push that to at least $10 billion per year.
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Kim Kardashian avoids Kanye West at their son’s soccer game amid his anti-Semitism scandal
A Mini Cheetah robot is now learning to play soccer
Researchers from the Hybrid Robotics Lab at the University of California, Berkeley are teaching a robot how to be a goalie. The Mini Cheetah robot developed at MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab was taught how to goal keep through simulation and actually managed to pull off a pretty strong blocking average. The robot was able to block 87.5 percent of the shots taken, which is just slightly above that of the best professional goalies in the English Premiere League.
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Watch two Mini Cheetah robots square off on the soccer field
Some robotics challenges have immediately clear applications. Others are more focused on helping systems solve broader challenges. Teaching small robots to play soccer against one another fits firmly into the latter category. The authors of a new paper detailing the use of reinforcement learning to teach MIT’s Mini Cheetah robot to play goalie note: Soccer […]
Watch two Mini Cheetah robots square off on the soccer field by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch