Score Media and Gaming Inc. operates as a sports media company in North America.
The company’s sports betting app ‘theScore Bet’ delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting experience and is available to place wagers in New Jersey, Colorado, and Indiana. The company also creates and distributes digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.
theScore
theScore app is free to end users and delivers comprehensive and customizable news, scores, stats, and notifications...
Score Media and Gaming Inc. operates as a sports media company in North America.
The company’s sports betting app ‘theScore Bet’ delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting experience and is available to place wagers in New Jersey, Colorado, and Indiana. The company also creates and distributes digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.
theScore
theScore app is free to end users and delivers comprehensive and customizable news, scores, stats, and notifications for all major leagues and sports, including the National Football League (NFL), NCAA Football and Basketball, the National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Hockey League (NHL), PGA Golf, NASCAR Racing and major European soccer leagues, including the English Premier League and Champions League, as well as special events, such as the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup. theScore app provides sports fans with deep personalization options, allowing them to follow and receive push notifications on news, scores and stats from their favourite teams and fantasy players in real-time with customizable feeds and seamless social sharing. The company delivers comprehensive original news content across all major leagues and competitions, presenting stories in a way to make them consumable on mobile devices, including rich visuals and multimedia, such as videos and embedded tweets. theScore app also includes innovative public chat and messaging features, enabling its community of fans to connect around the games and content they love.
During F2019, the company also introduced additional sports betting data and content into theScore app. Coinciding with the launch of theScore Bet, in September 2019, the company unveiled ‘Bet Mode’ in its sports media app.
theScore.com is the company’s principal web property. It provides sports news, scores, video and editorial content written by a roster of original, engaging sports voices, while curating the best and most relevant sports content from around the web. theScore.com is fully responsive and provides a great viewing experience for sports fans across a wide range of devices and screens, combined with all the news and data fans have come to expect from its primary mobile app.
theScore esports
The company also provides comprehensive coverage of the video gaming scene through theScore esports. theScore esports’ video content is distributed across YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
theScore Bet
Launched in New Jersey in 2019, theScore Bet is a comprehensive mobile sports betting platform natively built for iOS and Android devices that delivers an immersive and holistic sports betting experience. theScore Bet delivers various pre-game and in-game markets and betting options, scores and in-game data, features like early cash-out, and easy and secure deposit and withdrawal options. Fans are able to place bets on sports, including NFL and NCAA football, NBA and NCAA basketball, MLB baseball, NHL hockey, PGA golf, ATP and WTA tennis, MMA, and boxing, as well as soccer from the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, English Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and MLS. theScore Bet also delivers a seamless cross-state experience for sports fans as it expands across the U.S. via a single mobile app and cutting-edge multi-state wallet functionality.
In 2019, the company introduced FUSE, a new suite of innovative integrations linking theScore app with theScore Bet. Available on iOS devices, FUSE allows users to create bet slips from within theScore app, including markets for money lines, spreads and totals.
theScore Bet is authorized to provide sports betting services in New Jersey (by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, through its market access agreement with Darby Development LLC, the operator of Monmouth Park Racetrack), in Colorado (by the Colorado Division of Gaming, through its market access agreement with a subsidiary of Jacobs Entertainment Inc.), and in Indiana (by the Indiana Gaming Commission, through a multi-state market access framework agreement with Penn National Gaming). We also have market access for up to 10 additional states through its multi-state market access agreements with Penn National Gaming, subject to the enactment of enabling state gaming laws and regulations, and the receipt of relevant licenses and approvals. theScore Bet also has market access to operate an online casino in New Jersey through a multi-year agreement with Twin River Worldwide Holdings, Inc. and anticipates launching its online casino product in the state in the second half of calendar 2021, subject to securing applicable licensing and regulatory approvals from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement and the completion of Twin River’s pending acquisition of Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
theScore Bet is committed to promoting safe, responsible gaming, and it provides its users with access to responsible gaming resources and a suite of tools within theScore Bet app in order to help keep betting safe and fun.
Competition
In this space, the company directly competes with companies that offer mobile sports products. These include major media companies such as CBS Sports, ESPN, Fox Sports, SB Nation, Sportsnet, TSN, Turner Sports, and Yahoo Sports, and the digital media divisions of major North American sports leagues, independent fantasy sports companies, other digital media companies that cover esports, as well as start-up companies.
For theScore esports, direct competitors include companies that provide dedicated esports news and feature content on their platforms, including Dexerto, Dot Esports, and ESPN as well as the content arms of some professional esports leagues and teams.
The company’s theScore Bet mobile sports betting platform operates in a highly competitive and regulated U.S. sports betting market. It competes directly with many online gaming and fantasy sports companies, casino operators, and other media companies that offer online and mobile sports betting products. These include companies, such as Barstool Sports, Bet 365, Caesars, DraftKings, FanDuel, FOX Bet, MGM/GVC, PointsBet, and William Hill.
The company’s current and potential competitors in digital sports media include large and established companies, such as CBS Sports, ESPN, Fox Sports, SB Nation, Sportsnet, TSN, Turner Sports, and Yahoo Sports, the digital media divisions of major sports leagues, independent fantasy sports companies, other digital media companies that cover esports, as well as start-up companies
History
Score Media and Gaming Inc. was incorporated in 2012.
