{"id":164172,"date":"2025-09-23T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164172\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:18:07","slug":"budget-direct-signs-on-as-inaugural-sponsor-in-1-million-plus-nrl-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164172\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Direct signs on as inaugural sponsor in $1 million-plus NRL deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance provider Budget Direct has signed as the inaugural sponsor of the NRL\u2019s newest team, the Perth Bears, in a deal estimated to be worth more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Perth Bears will join the NRL as its 18th team in 2027 and are preparing to go to market to secure players in November. Perth Bears chief executive Anthony De Ceglie said the club\u2019s first commercial deal \u2013 its sleeves partner \u2013 sets a new NRL record.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insurance provider Budget Direct has signed as the inaugural sponsor of the NRL\u2019s newest team, the Perth Bears,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-164172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}