Gaming
LaLiga announces new content partnership with OneFootball
Mumbai: LaLiga has announced a new partnership with the world’s leading football media platform, OneFootball. An official profile of LaLiga will be launched on the platform to expand its digital reach and seek new touchpoints to engage with fans globally. LaLiga becomes the latest major league to join the OneFootball platform, joining over 130 other clubs, leagues, and federations who are already distributing original content to their fans via OneFootball.
LaLiga will become the first league to use its official account to share all club news, interviews, match reports, and videos, including a selection of matchday highlights footage, in both Spanish and English. Launching an official channel on OneFootball will help LaLiga reach the platform’s audience of over 100 million monthly active users, 75 per cent of whom are between 17 and 34-years-old.
News and updates will be available to fans across the OneFootball ecosystem via a fully personalised home feed. All of the content from LaLiga or published by LaLiga will be available to fans on the OneFootball mobile app and on the OneFootball.com website.
Furthermore, archive material, behind-the-scenes footage, and highlight footage will be available via the OneFootball Player, which distributes content to over 250 high-profile publishers and media outlets worldwide.
Commenting on the association, LaLiga director of digital strategy Alfredo Bermejo stated, “Being on key platforms like OneFootball is essential for LaLiga, to reach millions of fans and new users that can enjoy the most of the best league in the world. The agreement with OneFootball allows us to position ourselves at the forefront of the entertainment industry.”
OneFootball founder and CEO Lucas von Cranach said, “LaLiga is one of the biggest and most exciting football leagues in the world, and is consistently among the most-followed competitions on OneFootball. It is our aim to become the platform of choice for football leagues around the world to share their content with the new generation of fans, and we’re delighted LaLiga has opened an account to expand the reach of one of the best leagues in the world. We’re so excited to welcome LaLiga to our network and can’t wait to start sharing amazing content featuring FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia CF, Atlético de Madrid and the rest of the league with our users.”
Gaming
MTG gaming chief Benninghoff joins NODWIN board as esports firm primes for IPO
The Gurugram-based esports firm is pursuing a public listing, has returned to profitability and is growing revenues by 42 per cent
GURUGRAM: NODWIN Gaming is moving fast. The Gurugram-based gaming and esports company has launched a pre-IPO fundraising round, appointed UBS as lead adviser for both the round and a subsequent public listing, and landed a heavyweight board director, all in one go.
The new board member is Arnd Benninghoff, executive vice president of gaming at Stockholm-listed Modern Times Group (MTG), who has overseen the group’s strategic investments and portfolio growth since 2014. He is no stranger to building things: Benninghoff has founded and built fifteen companies, served as chief digital officer at ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, managing director of SevenVentures, and chief executive of Holtzbrinck eLAB. He began his career as a journalist at Deutsche Presse Agentur and various TV networks, holds a Diplom-Kaufmann in business and administration from the University of Münster, and previously sat on the board of Edgeware AB.
The numbers back the ambition
NODWIN is not pitching a story without substance. The company has returned to EBITDA profitability and posted a 42 per cent year-on-year revenue surge, reaching $58.5m in the first nine months of FY2026. The pre-IPO round will combine a primary issuance to fund global expansion through organic growth and acquisitions, alongside a secondary sale to give existing shareholders some liquidity.
Akshat Rathee, co-founder and managing director of NODWIN Gaming, said Benninghoff understands “the entire lifecycle of the gaming and media ecosystem, from the boots-on-the-ground reality of building startups to the strategic complexity of managing multi-billion dollar global portfolios.”
Benninghoff, for his part, said the company “sits at the intersection of sports, entertainment, and technology, making it one of the most exciting players in the global gaming landscape today.”
A portfolio built for the global south
Founded in 2014 by Rathee and Gautam Virk, NODWIN has quietly assembled one of the more compelling esports portfolios outside the Western hemisphere. Its properties include DreamHack India and Comic Con India, and it recently acquired StarLadder, the Ukraine-based tournament organiser behind premier events in CS:GO and Dota 2. The company also serves as a long-term strategic marketing partner for the Evolution Championship Series (EVO), the world’s most prominent fighting game tournament, helping push it into new geographies.
Its geographic focus spans South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Backers include Nazara Technologies, KRAFTON, Sony Group Corporation, JetSynthesys, and the founders’ investment vehicle Good Game Investments.
What comes next
With UBS running the books, a board freshly reinforced with European media and gaming expertise, and revenue heading in the right direction, NODWIN is laying the groundwork deliberately. The esports industry has burned investors before with big promises and thin margins. NODWIN’s return to profitability, combined with a real portfolio of owned intellectual properties across gaming, music and youth culture, gives it a more credible runway than most. The IPO clock is now ticking.
