The Australian Open has found an ingenious workaround for licensing conflicts on its YouTube livestream. The solution?

The ongoing 2025 Australian Open has taken a unique approach to its live broadcasts on the official YouTube channel. Rather ...

The Australian Open has introduced animated avatars to stream matches on YouTube, due to broadcast licensing restrictions. This innovative approach, called AO Animated, uses real-time data from ...

Several fans pointed out that the animated avatars representing the players on the Australian Open's YouTuber steaming look like Wii characters. Tennis fans watching the Australian Open on YouTube ...

The Australian Open has found an ingenious workaround for licensing conflicts on its YouTube livestream. The solution?

The Last Airbender ended in 2008, Team Avatar's story continued over the years as a series of graphic novels – and one in ...

It was the pros' animated avatars doing all the action, thanks to Tennis Australia’s real-time animated feed, streaming live on its YouTube channel. With the goal of expanding its audience and ...

The Australian Open's animated tennis livestreams are making a splash. U.S. leagues have used similar technology to put ...

The technology made its debut at the grand slam last year and audiences peaked for the men’s final, the recording of which ...

The channel’s “AO Animated” coverage looks more like a Wii Sports tennis match than a real one, with players’ physical forms replaced with virtual avatars. Fans that have viewed the live ...

Players are represented by characters that look like something out of a Wii game — not exactly perfect portrayals of Coco ...