Fubo Upgrades Mobile Apps With Sports Highlights, Vertical Video

Fubo is leaning on its new Disney partners, taking a page out of the ESPN App’s features and spotlighting vertical video sports highlights.

If you fire up Fubo’s mobile app, you’ll see new features like:

• Live video in carousels – Start watching the game right on Fubo’s home mobile screen with live, in-line video in carousels. This replaces thumbnails you’d usually see when opening the app.
• Advanced Team Channels – If you’ve selected your favorite teams, you’ll get team-based playlists of bite-sized game coverage and news. Now this expanded feature offers more filters based on favorite leagues, and coverage of key sports moments at large.
  • Fubo’s AI program identifies each moment within the full show to create the playlist. AI also pulls a relevant show moment to showcase the content in Fubo’s carousel rather than displaying a team logo.
• Vertical (portrait) videofor Team Channels – Aligning with the vertical mobile experience, Team Channels is showcased on the home screen in portrait mode. (This feature will launch in the coming weeks.)
  • The app uses AI to try to properly crop the highlight for vertical video.
• Key moments in Game Alerts – The Game Alerts feature has been expanded. Now, MLB fans can receive push notifications about the biggest plays, and tap to see them.
  • Example: If a favorite team hits a home run in the top of the 7th inning to take the lead, Fubo will send fans a push notification not only about the moment, but with one tap on the notification, the fans will be taken directly to the home run.
• Breaking news alerts – Users can receive breaking news text alerts while they’re on the go. Tapping the text takes you to live coverage.

Take a look at the new experience:

As is common with publicly traded companies looking to juice their stock price in 2026, the news release of this revamp features the phrase “AI” 7 times.

What Fubo didn’t note in its release is that by autoplaying so much video, this is bound to rip through any mobile data caps pretty quickly. We didn’t get word if you can turn the feature off to preserve data. It’s one thing to watch a highlight or two. It’s a bigger problem if there are dozens of videos autoplaying and killing your data plan.

Fubo has been on a quest to prove it’s still relevant, despite having lost all the NBCUniversal and Versant channels. Now that Fubo CEO David Gandler is also in charge of Hulu + Live TV, it’s seems there’s no momentum to try to repair that rift or seek a truce with Warner Bros. Discovery, which has many important channels like TBS, TNT, and CNN. All of those have been missing from Fubo for years.

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