Netflix is paying up for costly sports rights. Is the company making the right bets?
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Streaming is moving from library economics to live-event risk—Netflix leaning into expensive sports rights while investors question engagement puts more pressure on precise audience and ad-yield modeling. If you’re a rights holder or brand, this is your window to extract data access, co-marketing, and dynamic ad inventory, not just higher license fees.
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