Sports Streamer DAZN Makes $100 Million Bet on Technology Company ViewLift
April 30, 2026
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Caliente TV streaming European soccer in Mexico with assist from Viewlift
UEFA Champions League matches will have a new home in Mexico on a nascent streaming service when the league phase of the European club competition begins next week. Grupo Caliente, one of Mexico’s largest sports betting operators and the owner of two Liga MX clubs, last month debuted an over-the-top streaming platform powered by N.Y.-based ViewLift featuring a range of live sporting events, including top-tier European soccer, as well as 10 hours a day of original studio programming.
A Bigger Tent Makes a Happier Home
In late spring, we announced that ViewLift would become a part of DAZN; that deal has formally closed, so we are officially (as the logo above indicates) “a DAZN company”. In thanking my Chairman Ted Leonsis, our Board, colleagues, shareholders and clients for this now 19-year journey; and Sir Leonard Blavatnik, Shay Segev and our new colleagues at DAZN for their confidence in our future, I also want to lay out why we took this step and how it intersects with broader trends in technology, media and especially sports.
ViewLift Streams Motorsport Event at Scale with Harmonic
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that digital content distribution platform ViewLift is now using Harmonic’s VOS®360 Media SaaS as its streaming video pipeline. Harmonic’s VOS360 SaaS offers unparalleled agility, resiliency, security and scalability, ensuring an outstanding viewing
