Genius Sports

Football: A Game for All! ⚽️🌟

Our Live Data team in Medellin 🇨🇴 hosted their first-ever all Women's El Clasico Football match during the Copa America! 🎉

Plenty of energy, smiles and goals! 💪✨

Wondering what it's like to be a Genius? 👀

In the last few weeks, we've kicked off summer internship programmes across our Tallinn and LA offices. 💪

The programmes will see groups work in a range of functions including operations, trading and technology, with workshops and mentorship throughout.

🎉⚽️ It's Euro 2024 Final Weekend! ⚽️🎉

As Spain and England clash in their first men's tournament final, excitement is at an all-time high! Best of luck to everyone watching! 🏆🔥

Our colleague Jamie has been on a thrilling adventure through Germany, catching games and soaking in the amazing atmosphere! 🇩🇪🌟

Who do you think will lift the trophy? Comment below! Will it be Spain 🇪🇸 or England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ?

🤖 Welcome to a new era of intelligent sports.

In partnership with Sport Business, we’ve launched our latest whitepaper, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬.

Find out how the combination of AI and data is unlocking new possibilities across all levels of sport:

📈 How AI is translating huge quantities of sports data into meaningful insights

📊 The key growth pillars driving AI’s rising influence in sport

💥 What new machine-led insights mean for rights-holders, content owners and brands

🔮 From 1:1 personalised experiences to entirely new ad inventory, what does the AI future look like?

Download and read it here ➡️

New whitepaper | The foundations for a new era of intelligent sports The sports industry is on the cusp of a major transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI). This new white paper, co-developed by SportBusiness and Genius Sports, delves into the projected…

🏆 Double 2024 Champions!

🥇 Last week we won Acquisition and Retention Partner of the Year and Freeplay Gaming Supplier of the Year at the 2024 EGR Global North America Awards.

FanDuel and DraftKings are among the brands who continue to trust our sector-specific programmatic trading desk and dynamic data-driven creative services to target sports and gaming audiences, while our free-to-play solutions are proving increasingly popular for operators looking to drive cost-effective acquisition and increased retention.

Congrats to all of this year's winners and all of the team involved.

Pride 2024 at Genius 🌈

As part of our celebrations this month, we hosted an ‘LGBTQ+ Changemakers’ event, sharing perspectives from our employees, You Can Play and GLAS Foundation.

Our offices also got in the spirit with Pride-themed movie nights, trivia and socials. 🎉

🔎 Mystery at Grand Central! 🔎

Our Genius Sports team transformed into New York’s finest detectives for a day! 🕵️‍♂️ They embarked on a thrilling scavenger hunt across the iconic Grand Central Station. 🚂🗽

🧘‍♀️ Happy International Day of Yoga!

We celebrated by partnering with the Office Yoga Company to provide a virtual desk yoga class and encouraged our Geniuses to take an hour from their day to experience the mental and physical benefits of yoga.

🏆🎉 At last week's SBC Awards North America 2024, Genius Sports was crowned winner of the Industry Innovation of the Year category.

BetVision is the world's first-ever truly immersive live streaming experience for sports bettors and has revolutionised in-play NFL sports betting in less than a year.

The development of BetVision was a key contributor to our success in winning the award.

You can find out more about it here: https://geniussports.com/betting/betvision/

Team day out at the New York Mets for our NYC office last week! 🏟⚾

🗣 "This has been a fantastic opportunity not just to celebrate women and their achievements at Genius Sports, but to share our commitment to attracting diverse talent, both in tech and for other roles in the organization."

Employees, leaders and advocates at Genius spoke at our recent Women in Tech summit. ⬇️

Why closing the tech gender gap is a company-wide effort - Genius Sports At our recent Women in Tech Summit, we had the opportunity to hear from employees, leaders, and advocates at Genius Sports about the importance of allyship,

Congratulations to our Genius colleague Molly on winning promotion to the Barclays Women's Super League with Crystal Palace F.C Women! 🏆

"I'm very fortunate that I have an amazing, supportive team around me at Genius, who enable me to organise my working hours around my football schedule... 🙏

"I'm feeling really proud. It's an amazing achievement for us to reach the highest level possible in the women's game." ⚽️

📍 Our stand at this week's Brazilian iGaming Summit, where we're showcasing our complete sportsbook solution for the Brazilian market. 🇧🇷

Geniuses 'Marching into Fitness' around Central Park! 💪🗽

Our latest competition on YuMuuv challenged staff to complete at least 10k steps a day throughout the month. Over 150 hit the goal, with some reaching up to 680,000 steps!

The company are donating to Women for Women International 🙏 with winners also receiving limited-edition sports merch. 🎽

✅ completed for another year!

Congratulations to UConn Men's Basketball 🏆 and South Carolina Women's Basketball 🏆 in the men's and women's championships.

Our Sports Customer Onboarding Officer, Kevin Ross, was present in venue throughout the tournament.

"I was on site at 18 conference tournament games in Atlantic City, Brooklyn and the Upper West Side at Columbia University, where I worked directly with the Genius NCAA Basketball Data Collection application. Working alongside my team and NCAA staff, we ensured that our customers had everything they needed behind the scenes to run a successful postseason tournament!"

🏀 NCAA Final Four showdown this weekend!

Men's Bracket

✅ (1) UConn v (4) Alabama
✅ (11) NC State v (1) Purdue

Women's Bracket

✅ (1) South Carolina v (3) NC State
✅ (1) Iowa v (3) UConn

Who do you think will win?

Hear from David Petroff , our Sports Customer Onboarding Specialist, who has been working at the tournament:

"We spend a lot of time both at venues, and at home monitoring data and connections and assisting our fantastic NCAA Support team with questions. We'll be present at the Final Four providing support both in person and online as needed. It is truly one of the greatest American sporting events each year and captures the attention of the country for three full weeks. We are proud to play our part in making it happen smoothly."

🏀 Tip-off for our fifth

Through , our team are at the heart of the action, creating the official record of every play from every game across the men's and women's tournaments in 2024.

👩‍ Our Women in Tech Summit live from New York 🇺🇸

With a panel discussion that delved deep into empowering allyship and thought provoking presentations on how we build a diverse and inclusive tech team, our inaugural Women in Tech Summit was a great success this week.

Hosted live in New York, employees from our many different office locations tuned in to be a part of an inspiring event.

"This Genius beanie had seen heights and snow already, but this was its first time seeing ice diving!"

Emmanuel from our office in Lausanne, Switzerland, braving the icy alpine lakes! 🤿❄️

🔍 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀

We've been talking about career opportunities and working with the biggest names in sports.

➡️ geniussports.com/careers

Happy ! 💜

We're looking forward to hosting our Women in Tech summit for staff this month, with internal speakers and guests focusing on gender diversity, inclusion and empowering allyship.

Here's some of our Medellín office at one of our recent WIT events. 🫶📸

📰 Have you seen our latest news?

We're proud to announce our new partnership with the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association), to provide the first leaguewide tracking solution across U.S. women's sports.🏀

Powered by AI, our technology will unlock a new wealth of team and player insights for WNBA fans, teams and players including 3D player pose and ball tracking data.

Read more in The Associated Press (AP):

WNBA to use optical tracking to enhance player analysis The WNBA will become the first women’s professional sports league in the U.S. to have league-wide optical tracking after entering a multi-year deal with Second Spectrum, a Genius Sports technology solution.