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> Fantasy Just to add a few details (to this very interesting comment) -- Yahoo has products that competes both in daily fantasy (DFS) with FanDuel/DraftKings
by swanson 10y ago
> Fantasy
Just to add a few details (to this very interesting comment) -- Yahoo has products that competes both in daily fantasy (DFS) with FanDuel/DraftKings (both billion dollar companies) and season long with espn/cbs/etc.
Yahoo is firmly in the #3 spot for DFS, but is the only platform with both season long and daily games on the same site -- lots of opportunity for converting customers I would guess.
- basch 10y agofor sure, Yahoo Fantasy could use a massive reinvention. I just dont know who I would acquire. This might actually be a place where talent acquihire and reinventing yahoo from within would be better. obviously FanDuel/DraftKings are one of the two directions to be aggressive, the other being traditional fantasy, i just dont know what smaller competitors do things better, because a big part of fantasy is network effect and using a service all your friends use elsewhere. nobody likes using espn for all their leagues but one.
- swanson 10y agoThey could have acquired Victiv -- the previous 3rd largest site. It was bought by PokerStars however and Yahoo went with a homegrown solution.