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Jul 16, 20244 min read
YouTube, the sports broadcaster
By Robbie Spargo In September 2023, YouTube began streaming the NFL’s Sunday Ticket. Having announced the acquisition of the rights to...
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Apr 15, 20248 min read
WHY IS THE NFL SO SOCIALIST - AND WHAT CAN OTHER SPORTS LEAGUES LEARN FROM IT?
By Buddhika Rajapakse and Jacques Bassili The NFL is as synonymous with America as apple pie, democracy, freedom of speech, and free...
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Mar 8, 20244 min read
Scaling Data and Digital Assets to Scale Revenue
By Sam Graham Intro In Kieran Maguire’s book Unfit & Proper Persons, the finances required to grow a football club are spelt out in...
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Nov 20, 20233 min read
Bridging the Gap: How Gaming Transforms Professional Sports Sponsorship
By Alex Nunez, SVP of Bidstack Sports Professional sports remains a core pillar of global entertainment and culture, with billions of...
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Sep 14, 20232 min read
Rethinking the Web 3.0 Narrative in the Sports Industry
By Tim Magnell In recent years, the sports industry has been buzzing with discussions about Web 3.0 and blockchain. However, it's...
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Jun 1, 20233 min read
Let the Brand see the Front of Shirt!
By Sam Graham Intro On Thursday 13th April 2023, the Premier League announced that their clubs collectively agreed to withdraw gambling...
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Apr 12, 20234 min read
Sponsorship: Avoid basic (and costly) errors
By Ian Thompson A few weeks ago I had lunch with an old client, friend and member of the European Sponsorship Association board. Aside...
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Mar 10, 20234 min read
5 Ways to Unleash the Women's Sport Opportunity
1. Understand the unique audience Women’s sport offers a different audience to that of men’s sport. Obviously audiences vary by code,...
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Feb 14, 20234 min read
Navigating The Sports Industry as a 2022 Graduate
If you’d have told me 6 months ago that I would be working within one of the top Sports Marketing agencies in the UK, I would have...
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Feb 14, 20236 min read
My Favourite sports digital executions.....
What makes a great piece of digital content and how can sports organisations maximise the commercial opportunities that they can provide?...
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Feb 14, 20235 min read
Fear of Sponsorship Measurement
As COVID restrictions have all but gone and confidence rises in the viability of major sports events, we have seen a lot of major...
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Feb 14, 20234 min read
The measurement & evaluation of sponsorship...
“If you don’t invest 5% of your budget in research, you don’t know what you’re doing” This was the headline that caught my attention from...
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Feb 14, 20234 min read
A Founders Story.......
What is the founder(s) background? Donald began his career in 2006 at the (of its time) iconic consumer PR shop Shine Communications,...
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Feb 14, 20235 min read
Young people are the future....
The sports biz has something of an obsession with “Gen Z” - constantly analysing, debating and attempting to second-guess what these...
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Dec 16, 20207 min read
My top 10 partnership deals in 2020
With the end of 2020 just days away, we ask Gary Linke of The Missing Linke to list his favourite new brand partnerships of the year and...
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Nov 9, 20203 min read
The world of sport has changed, not just the players on the pitch but for everyone that works in it
By Oli Walsh Almost a year since the outbreak, we have all been affected by Coronavirus in different ways. I wanted to share my story...
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Aug 20, 20203 min read
Sponsors: Stop Being Proud!
By Ian Thompson It’s much used - but is being a ‘proud sponsor’ meaningless and wasteful? At the recent 70th Anniversary GP from...
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Aug 3, 20203 min read
Is there a place for purpose in sponsorship? Maybe. But don’t lose sleep over it.
Is there a place for purpose in sponsorship? Maybe. But don’t lose sleep over it.
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Jul 15, 20203 min read
"Self-interest drives sports sponsorship"?
By Ian Thompson In many respects, sponsorship has been through a period of boom. Over the last 5 years or so, revenues have grown by...
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Jul 13, 20202 min read
Is Sponsorship ROI an afterthought?
Sports rights holders continue to come under fire for failing to measure success and show ROI. A 2019 survey by Kantar explored advertisers
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