DAZN, the UK-based sports streaming service founded in 2015, would have been shuttered years ago, were it not for the continued financial life support of billionaire backer Len Blavatnik. The former oil baron has pumped an additional $827 million into DAZN, to kickstart the company’s 2025—a year full of lofty ambitions, including a target of 1 billion global users. Regrettably, DAZN has not delivered an update on recent subscriber numbers. The last available figures are from the end of 2023, when DAZN revealed it had an average of 300 million monthly users, but only 20 million paid subscribers—suggesting the platform is some distance from confirming 1 billion pairs of eyeballs. The ratio of 20 million paid subs to 300 million…