Spending 6000 billion dong, English Premier livestream exclusive Facebook in Vietnam and 3 neighboring countries

The online community and football fans are not surprised by the new move of Facebook, when the world's largest social network has reached an exclusive Premier League livestream agreement applied in 4 countries in Vietnam and Thailand. , Laos, Cambodia.

For £ 200 million, equivalent to more than VND 6 trillion, Facebook has won over two major distributors that dominated the Asian market for a long time, beIN Sports and Fox Sports Asia to buy the version. The Premier League livestream right in the 3 consecutive seasons starts from 2019 to the end of 2022.

Facebook is slowly showing its ambition to dominate the sport side, starting with Major League baseball, college basketball and some small American Champions League matches, through cooperation with Fox Sports and the next time. especially last year when I was shooting Star India's hand in the domestic cricket tournament.

Manchester City is the champion of the 2017-2018 season.

Facebook's move shows that, in addition to traditional TV television, global audiences are tending to follow sports through livestream. In addition to Facebook, another technology giant is also interested in the sport, which is Amazon, but the company has only accepted 20 games in the English Premier League 2019-2020.

YouTube and Netflix are also negotiating with the Premier League representative. This shows that sports livestream form has a quite open future.

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