starplayer
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If I purchase the stream for Saturdays away game through mfc app do Boro get the % or QPR as the home team?
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pierrequiroule
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This is the relevant para from a link to the Colchester United website (it's written by their chairman) which uncle-rico posted recently. I'm assumimg the quotas for the Championship are the same.
Streaming Revenues
The way it works currently is that the home team keep all of the revenue for the tickets they sell through their own website and they also get the revenue for the first 500 that buy via the away team. For example: for Saturday’s game against Bolton, we sold 452 iFollow passes, (so we keep all of the revenue from those), and Bolton sold 2252 iFollow passes, (of which we get the revenue from the first 500).
This has put a very new aspect on the revenue that is available to clubs this season. Bolton made more money in gate receipts from our home fixture than we did because they had the revenue from 1,752 iFollow passes whereas we had the revenue from 952 iFollow passes. In normal times, we would have expected about £54,000 in home gate receipts from this fixture but we will receive just shy of £8,000, whereas Bolton would have expected about £600 for the 5% commission we pay them but will have received about £14,000 more than that.
We sold just over 300 streams for the away game against Bradford, so we earnt £0.00 for that away game and I expect that to be the case for every away game this season. So based on twenty three away games, Bolton look set to receive about £345,000 from the streaming of their away games this season whilst we can look forward to approximately £0.00.
Perhaps these facts might help some of you that think we should still be in the Championship understand what we are up against.
EDIT Of course Boro opted out of iFollow, so the answer is fukknose.
Streaming Revenues
The way it works currently is that the home team keep all of the revenue for the tickets they sell through their own website and they also get the revenue for the first 500 that buy via the away team. For example: for Saturday’s game against Bolton, we sold 452 iFollow passes, (so we keep all of the revenue from those), and Bolton sold 2252 iFollow passes, (of which we get the revenue from the first 500).
This has put a very new aspect on the revenue that is available to clubs this season. Bolton made more money in gate receipts from our home fixture than we did because they had the revenue from 1,752 iFollow passes whereas we had the revenue from 952 iFollow passes. In normal times, we would have expected about £54,000 in home gate receipts from this fixture but we will receive just shy of £8,000, whereas Bolton would have expected about £600 for the 5% commission we pay them but will have received about £14,000 more than that.
We sold just over 300 streams for the away game against Bradford, so we earnt £0.00 for that away game and I expect that to be the case for every away game this season. So based on twenty three away games, Bolton look set to receive about £345,000 from the streaming of their away games this season whilst we can look forward to approximately £0.00.
Perhaps these facts might help some of you that think we should still be in the Championship understand what we are up against.
EDIT Of course Boro opted out of iFollow, so the answer is fukknose.
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NYboro
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Boro opted out for the first season and we had Riverside Live. They never said what it is after that, but it is identical to iFollow, down to the warnings that iFollow must not be shown publicly. Make of that what you will.
pierrequiroule
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Bournemouth official website have put out this apology to their fans for the poor sound issues during saturday's game. They mention that StreamAMG (StreamIMG ?) were the supppliers.
AFC Bournemouth understand there were technical issues provided from supplier IMG during the Middlesbrough game on afcbTV Live.
We understand that the commentary wasn’t added and there was poor sound quality for the first 15 minutes or so.
This problem was noticed early on and after several calls to IMG, there was no response from the supplier.
We have investigated this issue alongside Middlesbrough, and also found out that this same issue affected most clubs across the Football League.
We have received the following response from IMG:
- The problem was due to a fault with encoders, which IMG believe has now been resolved
- It affected all StreamAMG clubs in the Football League
- Fault was stress-related and IMG are confident it has been resolved
- Testing going on with StreamAMG currently and throughout the week
IMG won’t be providing refunds because supporters could watch the match for 90 minutes. This is something we were unaware of and we acknowledge that we could have communicated better to our supporters.
IMG ensured us that they were running plenty of tests ahead of our next streamable fixture against Norwich City in order to ensure that this error will not happen again.
We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.
AFC Bournemouth understand there were technical issues provided from supplier IMG during the Middlesbrough game on afcbTV Live.
We understand that the commentary wasn’t added and there was poor sound quality for the first 15 minutes or so.
This problem was noticed early on and after several calls to IMG, there was no response from the supplier.
We have investigated this issue alongside Middlesbrough, and also found out that this same issue affected most clubs across the Football League.
We have received the following response from IMG:
- The problem was due to a fault with encoders, which IMG believe has now been resolved
- It affected all StreamAMG clubs in the Football League
- Fault was stress-related and IMG are confident it has been resolved
- Testing going on with StreamAMG currently and throughout the week
IMG won’t be providing refunds because supporters could watch the match for 90 minutes. This is something we were unaware of and we acknowledge that we could have communicated better to our supporters.
IMG ensured us that they were running plenty of tests ahead of our next streamable fixture against Norwich City in order to ensure that this error will not happen again.
We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.
NYboro
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Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in IMG. You would have thought they'd be monitoring it for the first few weeks, at least.
redcarjock
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I wasn't sure if I could watch Saturdays match from the MFC website so had a quick look at the QPR site today and you can buy the match for £7, but after visiting the Boro site I can access it but for £10.
I will always back the Boro and pay the extra couple of quid but can't see why there is a £3 difference?
I did watch my home team St Mirren away to the hun a couple of weeks ago at a cost of £12 so it's still reasonable value
I will always back the Boro and pay the extra couple of quid but can't see why there is a £3 difference?
I did watch my home team St Mirren away to the hun a couple of weeks ago at a cost of £12 so it's still reasonable value
pierrequiroule
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Maybe QPR's stream is provided by iFollow or some other provider? Who knows how many there are.