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X is doubling down on sports, with Wednesday\u2019s news that it\u2019s expanding its \u201cGametime\u201d feature on the social media site to go beyond tracking the NFL alone.<\/p>\n
First announced<\/a> in August, NFL Gametime is X\u2019s new project that offers a single hub for tracking live scores, getting play-by-play updates, tuning into game feeds, and more. The move wasn\u2019t meant to be useful only to X users who like to congregate on the platform to discuss live sporting events, but to woo brands and advertisers looking to reach passionate sports fans.<\/p>\n At Advertising Week New York, X said Gametime will become a year-round destination spanning \u201call professional sports.\u201d <\/p>\n However, that full expansion isn\u2019t yet live as of today. Instead, X announced its second league partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB). Arriving this month, the new MLB experience will allow baseball fans to follow and engage in postseason discussions and will organize things like scores and stats, team and league content, plus news, creator content, and real-time discussions. <\/p>\n X said content from other leagues will be added soon, including the NBA. <\/p>\n The expansion of the Gametime feature comes as X continues its efforts to win back advertisers \u2014 in this case by leveraging live sports and their highly engaged fans as a way to draw brands back to X. <\/p>\n \u201cIn just six weeks, Gametime has evolved from a football-focused product into a scalable destination for sports, attracting strong demand across major advertisers from payments to consumer goods looking to engage highly attentive fans from the pregame conversation through the biggest moments of the game,\u201d said SpaceXAI\u2019s head of Global Advertising, Monique Pintarelli, in an announcement.<\/p>\n The new feature\u2019s introduction follows X owner Elon Musk\u2019s July settlement in a multiyear legal battle <\/a>with the advertising trade group the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which X had sued<\/a> for its alleged \u201cillegal boycott\u201d of the platform.<\/p>\n Some advertisers had become uncomfortable with the platform\u2019s lax moderation standards under Musk, as well as with Musk\u2019s outsized position on the social media site, where he often spouted controversial views and politics via X posts. Musk believed the WFA\u2019s guidelines had steered brands and ad agencies away from X, suggesting it was a place where their ads could appear next to harmful online content. <\/p>\n X\u2019s announcement<\/a> of the settlement in July said the move \u201cresets the relationship between the two organizations.\u201d The company also committed to both freedom of speech and brand-safety innovations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n