{"id":27194,"date":"2026-03-19T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/prem-rugby-twitch-streamer-buys-rights-to-show-season-in-france\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:27:36","slug":"prem-rugby-twitch-streamer-buys-rights-to-show-season-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/prem-rugby-twitch-streamer-buys-rights-to-show-season-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem Rugby: Twitch streamer buys rights to show season in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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\">Marliere told L&#8217;Equipe.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c5ylpjv8dzwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It all stems from frustration, that a rugby fan like myself, can no longer watch this exciting competition,&#8221; Marliere told L&#8217;Equipe., external &#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; Marliere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27196,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194\/revisions\/27196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}