We Simplify Sports

Discover | Access | Engage

About Us

SportsBubble is a sports media focused technology company that provides software and services for consumers and businesses.

In today’s streaming era, there are more than one million sports events available for viewing each year on free and subscription-based services. Managing the information related to sports events and positioning each event for easy discovery and access across platforms can be challenging, time consuming and expensive. And, in today’s content rich but fragmented media landscape, most consumers are either unaware of an event or, quite often, have difficulty accessing it on the device they’re using to watch.

That’s where SportsBubble comes in.

For sports stakeholders, SportsBubble’s software and services offer efficient end-to-end management, marketing and monetization of sports event inventory across platforms.

For sports consumers, SportsBubble offers software and services to make Discovery, Access and Engagement with SPORTS easy, fast and friction-free.

SportsBubble’s flagship product, the WatchSports App, is a live Sports Event Programming Guide with connection service to free and subscription-based viewing platforms. The WatchSports App is available for smartphones, tablets and web-accessible devices.

Search-to-Watch as
Easy as 1-2-3

The WatchSports App makes it Easy, Fast and Free to find sports event schedule information and quickly connect to viewing.

SportsBubble is proud to partner with stakeholders across the sports media ecosystem.

Athletes Unlimited Partnership with SportsBubble

PAC 12 Conference Partnership with SportsBubble

Our Story

SportsBubble was founded by sports media pioneer, Lydia Murphy-Stephans, after it took her way too long to search and then access a sports event to watch on her tablet. The multi-step, time-consuming process was an epiphany moment for the sports media executive.

Lydia knew the experience she had when trying to watch a live sports event on a mobile device was a big consumer and business issue. As a serial problem-solver and entrepreneur, she was determined to make it simpler for consumers to discover, access and engage with sports. And, at the same time, provide sports event stakeholders with tools to help simplify the management of sports event information across platforms and grow engagement.

During the company’s nascent Research & Development stage, Lydia consulted with sports, media and technology experts to help shape a solution for both consumers and businesses. Chris Fehring, a former colleague and software engineer, was one of them. Chris joined SportsBubble as co-founder in 2020 and helped Lydia create the company’s WatchSports App and Sports Event Schedule Management System.

The WatchSports App

Connecting Fans to Live Sports & Esports Events in Seconds

WatchSports offers a Sports Event Search Engine and Live Event Programming Guide with connection service to free and subscription-based platforms. It makes the search-to-watch experience Easy, Fast and Free for sports viewers.

WatchSports offers a comprehensive listing of Professional, Olympic, Minor League, College and Esports events from around the world.

WatchSports on the go! Available on web, Google Play and the App Store.

The Team

Throughout our careers, we helped build local and global sports, media and technology businesses. Now, we bring our experience and expertise to SportsBubble.

Lydia Murphy-Stephans

CEO & Founder

Lydia is a sports media industry pioneer and life-long sports fan. Prior to SportsBubble, Lydia was the president of Pac-12 Networks, responsible for managing the launch and operations of the Pacific Athletic Conference’s media company. Before that, she was the EVP of Programming & Production at MSG Media’s regional sports networks, MSG and MSG+; the president of Oxygen Media’s sports properties; and the Vice President of Programming and Acquisitions at ABC Sports (Capital Cities/Disney). Prior to her sports media career, Lydia was a competitive speed skater and member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Team.

Chris Fehring

Head of Software Development & Co-Founder

Chris is a technology, sports and media industry veteran. Prior to SportsBubble, Chris was on Pac-12 Networks’ innovative engineering team focusing on media systems design, app engineering and cloud solutions architecture. In 2013, Chris was part of the team that created Pac-12 Networks’ groundbreaking MIO (mobile input-output) system, an efficient alternative to the industry standard satellite truck. Before that, he spent time at Pixar and Vulcan helping bring visions to life.