NEP has announced that after the culmination of 18 months of investment, proprietary R&D and execution of the company’s strategic vision, the company is expanding its global production ecosystem with new strategic partnerships.

Launch of strategic partnerships with MLS and the XFL mark the beginning of a rapid expansion of NEP’s Centralized and Mobile Unit Connected Production solutions, with additional partnerships planned worldwide throughout 2023.

As part of the MLS partnership, NEP is providing a multitude of services to support the League’s full season of more than 950 matches, including: mobile units on-site at every venue, remote and/or centralized support of multiple game feeds from NEP’s New York, Miami and Los Angeles production hubs, studios and control rooms supporting Spanish and English-language pregame, postgame and whip-around shows, media asset management through NEP’s Mediabank product, technical management, crewing and operations support, connectivity between venues, and other infrastructure and systems management.

The recent relaunch of the XFL in the U.S., and the integration of centralized, cloud-based workstreams with traditional live production support for the recent Olympics, Commonwealth Games and World Cup, NEP’s work will be seen this year through a series of new partnerships: the PGA TOUR, NASCAR, Swedish Ice Hockey, World Rally Championship and the new Dyn Media Sport offering in Germany.

“For us, listening and adapting to our clients’ needs is the most important part of our business, and these needs, whether based on advanced technology, reduced costs, increased safety, or something else, are changing rapidly. Our strategy, and now its execution, has been a direct response to that,” says Brian Sullivan, CEO of NEP. “We want to give all our clients the most flexible and forward-looking solutions possible. Our new partnerships in the U.S. and around the globe are a testament to the strength of our people and their ingenuity. And these deals prove the path we’re on is the right one, equipped to lead our industry into the future.”

Today, NEP Group offers rights holders and sports leagues a full range of “end-to-end” solutions that capture the action on the field and deliver it to fans anywhere they are, on any device they use, in near real-time. NEP created its global production ecosystem to allow for any combination of traditional broadcast support, at one or multiple event venues, with remote or centralized production capabilities managed off-site, sometimes hundreds – or thousands – of miles away.

Gary Stevenson, MLS Deputy Commissioner and President of MLS Business Ventures, says: “NEP is a world-class partner whose expertise from capture to distribution has enabled us to deliver content in multiple languages to fans in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. We have worked with NEP for more than 20 years and could not be more proud of the work we are doing together to make MLS Season Pass a reality for our fans.”