The FIFA World Cup Hub, launches the week of June 4 and changes dynamically to reflect current match and tournament status, and provides convenient access to all FOX Sports digital content across FOXSports.com and the FOX Sports App. Key features include:
· Live streams and full replays of all 64 matches
· Match Center – Gives users access to bonus feeds, commentary, rosters, stats and highlights
· Highlight Machine presented by adidas – Invites Web and mobile visitors to create and share custom highlight reels from past and current matches
· Extensive Highlights
· Exclusive Original Content
· Fan Guide
· Team Pages
· Schedules
· Standings
· Stats
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Bonus Feeds – In addition to the main broadcast stream, FOX Sports offers five bonus feeds for each of the 64 FIFA World Cup matches, including Team Channels, Match 360, Tactical View, Cable Cam view and Highlights. The Bonus Feeds deliver seven hours of additional coverage per match and 448 total additional hours of coverage over the length of the tournament.
· Team Channelspresented by adidas & Coca-Cola – FOX Sports will produce a country-specific experience encompassing three live video feeds (match simulcast, player & coach/bench) as well as real-time, team-vs-team stats. All feeds are synced to provide concurrent views of the action from various angles of the pitch.
· Match 360 (before & after the match) – A behind-the-scenes look two hours before each match kickoff that chronicles everything from team bus arrivals to warm-ups before the match
· Tactical View(during the game) – Positioned high above one of the goals, this view shows all 22 players on the pitch and reveals the shape of the offense and defense of both nations; at the end of the match, coverage switches to on-field post-match interviews, followed by both team press conferences
· Cable Cam – Suspended over the pitch, offers a unique view of the action
· Highlights – Provides a constant loop of highlights and significant plays as they happen; shown from multiple angles, including super slo-motion replay
Additional activations:
· Highlight Machine presented by adidas – FOX Sports will deliver the FIFA World Cup™ Highlight Machine presented by adidas. This one-of-a-kind technology brings fans all the best moments of this year’s tournament and its historic past matches, at the user’s command. By leveraging cognitive highlight and AI technology, users can create their own highlight reel by year, team, player, matches or play type, with the ability to share the highlight via their favorite social media platforms. FOX Sports has an on-going innovation collaboration with IBM to enable the best viewing experience for sports fans.
· Social VR – Introduced at last season’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, FOX Sports once again teams with industry-leader LiveLike on a social virtual reality offering, including a custom suite and three immersive, multi-angle VR feeds from each game
· FOX.com/FOX NOW – Live matches, 90 in 90 match highlights, match replays, live and on-demand episodes of World Cup Tonight, Phenoms and National Geographic’s Extreme Soccer Russia available in FOX Broadcasting’s multi-platform TV Everywhere offerings
· Instant Alerts – Instant goal highlight video alerts, scores, key plays, exciting matches and video recaps when each match ends
