Overtime is a sports network focused on young, digital-native sports fans. The company's programming focuses on talented young athletes, in particular high school athletes who play basketball and football. Overtime is a distributed sports network. Instead of offering content through a single channel, Overtime's programming is available across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, on TV and through Overtime itself. Other sports networks, websites, blogs and fans frequently re-share Overtime videos, helping Overtime reach an even larger audience on social, the web, on mobile and on TV. Overtime has helped a number of young high-school athletes reach a national audience, including Rex Cassady, Trae Young, Jordan McCabe and Shareef O'Neal, among others. Its short-form programming is provided by a network of paid contributors, who attend games and upload highlights in real-time from their mobile phones using a special app that makes it easy to capture and produce highlights. Overtime's longer-form programming is produced by an in-house team.
History
Overtime was founded in late 2016 by Dan Porter and Zack Weiner. Porter is a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous company, game studio OMGPop, to gaming company Zynga in 2012 for $200 million. After leaving Zynga, he was hired by William Morris Endeavor to oversee its digital efforts. Weiner was the founder of , a platform for college students to write about sports. Overtime initially started as a different sports-focused project within WME. In late 2016, Porter and Weiner left WME and established Overtime as a standalone company, based in Brooklyn, New York. Overtime raised $2.5 million in seed funding in early 2017. In the summer and fall of 2017, a series of Overtime videos brought additional attention to the company. The first of these was showing a massive block by Zion Williamson, the country's top-ranked high school player, in July 2017. This video was mentioned in a Sports Illustratedcover story on Williamson in August 2017. In February 2018, Overtime announced it had raised $9.5 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Greycroft and a number of other investors. Basketball star Kevin Durant is an investor in Overtime via his investment firm, . Former NBA commissioner David Stern was also an investor and advisor in Overtime. In April 2018, Overtime hired its first chief content officer Marc Kohn, a former head of programming for Barstool Sports and Bleacher Report; A head of sales, Alex Grant, a former sales executive with Twitter and Snap, Inc; And a head of production, Dave Zigerelli, who has producing credits from ESPN, MTV and Bravo. In February 2019, Overtime announced it had raised $23 million Series B round from Spark Capital, , MSG Networks and a number of other investors.
