{"id":550874,"date":"2026-03-19T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550874\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:08:11","slug":"prem-rugby-twitch-streamer-buys-rights-to-show-season-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550874\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem Rugby: Twitch streamer buys rights to show season in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It all stems from frustration, that a rugby fan like myself, can no longer watch this exciting competition,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Medias\/Actualites\/Florian-marliere-streamer-et-nouveau-diffuseur-gratuit-de-la-premiership-l-idee-n-est-pas-de-gagner-de-l-argent\/1660334\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marliere told L&#8217;Equipe., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Honestly, the idea isn&#8217;t to make money with this project; we&#8217;ll probably even lose some. But I hope that the increased visibility will lead to side projects that might be more profitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marliere is not the first streamer to broadcast action free on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Goldbridge, whose That&#8217;s Football channel has more than 1.5 million subscribers, shows football from Germany&#8217;s Bundesliga, while the Pro D2 \u2013 the second tier of French domestic rugby \u2013 is available in the UK on start-up channel FR-UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prem Rugby itself has had success with streams of the Prem Rugby Cup competition, attracting six-figure audiences for pool-stage meetings between Leicester and Northampton and Gloucester and Bath in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It all stems from frustration, that a rugby fan like myself, can no longer watch this exciting competition,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-550874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550874","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=550874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}