Fubo App Boosts Sports Highlights for Mobile Users
▼ Summary
– Fubo’s mobile app update introduces short-form news videos and a homepage carousel of live video previews.
– The service is expanding its AI-powered Team Channels feature to more sports leagues and improving its moment-detection capabilities.
– Team Channels will soon be viewable in portrait mode on the homepage, with AI zooming into key areas of the video.
– Fubo is launching personalized game alerts for MLB baseball games, notifying users of key moments like home runs.
– These baseball alerts follow the service’s launch of similar personalized alerts for NBA games last year.
Fubo is enhancing its mobile experience with a significant update focused on delivering faster sports highlights and live content. The streaming platform now features a prominent carousel of live video upon opening the app, letting users quickly preview ongoing games. A new short-form video section also provides news and updates tailored to specific teams and leagues.
The service is further developing its AI-powered Team Channels. This feature automatically generates playlists of key moments from games users have recorded. Fubo is now expanding Team Channels to cover more leagues and has improved its artificial intelligence to identify a wider variety of pivotal plays for inclusion.
Additional upgrades are arriving soon. In the coming weeks, Team Channels will be viewable in portrait mode directly on the homepage. The AI will intelligently zoom in on the most important action within these vertical video streams, a format similar to that used by Peacock. Furthermore, Fubo is extending its personalized game alerts system. After launching for NBA games last year, these real-time push notifications are now available for MLB contests. Subscribers can receive alerts for major events like a home run and tap the notification to jump directly to that exact moment in the live stream or recording.
(Source: The Verge)
