Riot Games, the developer and esport tournament organiser for League of Legends, will use Nielsen to value the sponsorship of its esport leagues and competitions around the world.
Optus continues to expand its new sponsorship of the Adelaide Crows AFL club by including another part of its esport business in the four-year deal it signed with the club in February.
The AFL has announced a new partnership with Google Australia that sees the online search engine introduce three new voting categories via Google Search.
A new promotion by South Sydney Rabbitohs’ major sponsor, property developer Aqualand Australia, has garnered significant interest in its first 24 hours.
Wagering firm Neds has committed to a two-year renewal of its co-major sponsorship with the Brisbane Lions, just three months after first signing with the AFL club.
IBM has become a founding principal partner of the Victorian Pride Centre, a 6,000 square metre facility in St Kilda that will house eight major LGBTIQ community organisations and support more than 40 smaller community groups.
Rugby Australia is looking at a range of streaming options to increase distribution of domestic and possibly Super rugby content when its broadcast rights are renegotiated in 2020.
Woolworth’s partnership with the Dry July Foundation has been attacked by leading health activist group, the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, which says the deal “is a cynical marketing exercise by BWS designed to push the Woolworths’ alcohol brand and normalise alcohol”.