Super Bowl 2015: NFL launches its YouTube channel, which will broadcast highlights of the game

The NFL (National Football League, USA, American football) will launch its official channel on the video-sharing platform YouTube at the 2015 Super Bowl (championship final scheduled at Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on 01/02/2015 at 18:30 Eastern Standard Time, or 00:30 on 02/02/2015 Central European Time), the league announced on 25/01/2015.

This channel will launch by broadcasting the highlights of the Super Bowl. This operation was created through a partnership between the NFL and Google, the Internet search engine, which bought the YouTube platform for €1.45bn in 2006. The fans, who previously had to visit the official website of the NFL to see excerpts and highlights of games, will now have access to these items via the YouTube channel with banners and advertisements from the NFL's sponsorship partners.

• The NFL is the last of five major league North American sports to launch its YouTube channel:
  • NHL: National Hockey League (527,000 subscribers)
  • NBA: National Basketball Association (6.01 million subscribers)
  • MLS: Major League Soccer (178,000 subscribers)
  • MLB: Major…