It's awards season for WWE.
In addition to winning multiple Shorty Audience Honor Awards, as well as WWE CBO Stephanie McMahon nabbing a Gracie Award, WWE also picked up a couple of Cynopsis Sports Media Awards this month.
The big awards month of April continued for WWE with a pair of wins in the 2022 Cynopsis Sports Media Awards, which were announced this week.
From the official Cynopsis.com website:
Mobile App (Winner: WWE Network app)
WWE created a new way to engage fans by delivering its premium live content directly to fans in 170 countries with WWE Network. Subscribers can watch 24/7-streaming, original programming as well as breaking news, video playlists and photo galleries, fed immediately from WWE.com right into the palm of the WWE Universe. Since its launch in 2012, more than 500 million videos have been viewed via the WWE App.
Honorable Mentions:
Bellator MMA: Bellator Mobile App
Bleacher Report – Team Stream
NBC Sports Group – NBC Sports Live Extra
Omnigon – World Rugby
OneUp Sports – OneUp Sports
PGA TOUR Digital – PGA TOUR iPad App(OTT) Content Service (Winner: WWE Network app)
To grow WWE Network subscribers a five part strategy was executed: creating new content, implementing high impact customer acquisition and retention programs, introducing new features, expanding distribution platforms, and entering new geographies. As a result, subscribers increased 79% to more than 1.3 million from the third quarter 2014; paid subscribers increased 7% to more than 1.2 million from the second quarter 2015; and network segment revenue reached a record of 45.8 million on a trailing 12-month basis.
For more information and the rest of the winners for the 2022 Cynopsis Sports Media Awards, visit Cynopsis.com.
