Unofficial Partner Podcast
490 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsUnofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. Our guests are a who's who of the international sports industry talking about the big issues.
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UP303 Moya Dodd, Football Pioneer
March 28, 2023 14:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBMoya Dodd has been one of the most influential women in international football for the past two decades. In 2013 she was one of the first women in 108 years to be appointed to the FIFA executive committee, the governing body's key decision making group. The former international player and lawyer led reform for gender equality including greater inclusion in the decision-making process and for there to be a larger investment in the women's game. FIFA passed her proposal and added a requiremen...
UP302 The Bundle 22
March 24, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBThe Bundle is our regular series on the sports media and streaming market, with guests Murray Barnett and Yannick Ramcke. Three main stories and a quick fire round. ESPN Takes a shot at creating a sports streaming hub; Apple's MLS opt-out and what would happen if that became the model for the relationship between rights holders and media; and the danger of misreading the bankruptcy of Bally Sports and the state of the Regional Sports Network model in the US. Then there's a bit on the stor...
UP301 The Buy Side - Coke and the Olympics
March 21, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBCoca Cola and the Olympics is sport's most enduring commercial relationship. But how does it work on the inside? How relevant is the Games to today's Coke drinker? Is the Olympic TOP programme still fit for purpose? And how can the IOC balance its promises around sustainability with the reality of hosting massive, multi-sport events, and sponsored by companies such as Coca Cola, which is one of the biggest producers of plastic in the world? As VP of Olympic Assets and Marketing, James Willia...
UP300 The Big Idea - Nike x Corteiz
March 14, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBThis is episode 2 of our series on creativity in sports marketing, with regular co-host Simon Moore, award winning Creative Director. We pick apart the latest Nike Rules The World ad, featuring the brand's recent collaboration with London based streetwear imprint Corteiz, and directed by Walid Labri for Division. Spoiler: We quite liked it but not enough to put it in to the Unofficial Partner Big Idea Hall Of Fame (UPBIHOF). More details of how to nominate work for this in the UP Newslette...
UP299 The Buy Side
March 07, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBIn the week of the European Sponsorship Awards, we resurrect The Buy Side, our series where we talk with brand marketers about sport sponsorship. Previous conversations have included guests from Visa, TSB, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Sipsmith and Vitality. These can be found in the Unofficial Partner archive on our website. To relaunch the series, we've recruited the help of two highly regarded sponsorship experts, Sally Hancock and Shaun Whatling. Sally was Director of Olympic and Paralympic Mar...
UP298 Sir Martin Broughton
March 03, 2023 11:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBSir Martin Broughton sold Liverpool and nearly bought Chelsea. As chair of the former he was tasked with moving the club out of the hands of previous owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett and in to its current ownership group, Fenway Sports Group. More recently, Broughton put together a consortium to bid for Chelsea, when the club came to market following the forced sale by Roman Abramovich. So there are very few people who have a more informed view on the value of a Premier League football...
UP297 Sports documentary and the authenticity question
February 28, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBIt's sometimes said that this is a golden era of sports documentary. F1's Drive to Survive has changed the landscape. Every sports rights holder wants its own version, to use as a tool to reach new audiences, whether that's the infamous Gen Z demographic or in different parts of the world, delivered by the global streamers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. But what are trade offs required in this form of commercialised documentary. Adam Darke is a veteran documentary maker, whose work inc...
UP296 The Big Idea
February 21, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThis is a new series on creativity in sports marketing. With award winning Creative Director Simon Moore as our regular sidekick, we go in search of brilliance. Each episode dissects campaigns we love and campaigns we hate. Some rules: Does the idea deserve to be celebrated in the UP Big Idea Hall of Fame? Does the campaign come with a level of craft and sophistication that merits an award, does it challenge the conventions of the what’s normally done in its category? Can only sport de...
UP295 Solving for Piracy
February 17, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBPiracy and illegal streaming is a $28.3 billion a year global business, impacting sports rights holders and broadcasters across the world. Pirate streams of sporting events are not difficult to find on the internet and shutting these down has proved to be a difficult task for sports leagues. While legal action has been successfully brought against several illegal streamers, many are still fully operational. When one stream gets taken down, more pop up in its place. But there are signs of h...
UP294 Warren Gatland
February 14, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBWarren Gatland is one of the most successful coaches of the professional rugby era. His career has spanned the club and international game, with stints in charge of Ireland, Wales and three times the head coach of the British and Irish Lions touring teams to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In December 2022, Gatland returned to Wales ahead of the current Guinness Six Nations Championship, a contract that sees him in charge through to the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, with potentia...
UP293 ReThinking Sport: Martin Glenn
February 07, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBMartin Glenn was CEO of The FA for four years until 2018, following a career as a senior executive at United Biscuits and PepsiCo, where he famously made Gary Lineker the face of Walkers Crisps. Glenn was offered The FA job by then chairman, and former UP guest, Greg Dyke and his tenure is regarded favourably across football and the journalists who cover it. Revenue increased 40% and the organisation became noticeably more diverse. England teams began performing better; he sacked Sam Allard...
UP292 Table Tennis England and the NGB Question
February 03, 2023 11:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBHow many people play Table Tennis in England? Who are they and why do they play? Is that number growing or contracting? How easy is it to watch the sport in today's omnichannel media environment and how is it going to evolve? And, is the National Governing Body model, the basis of the economy for sport in the UK, still fit for purpose? These are questions we put to today's guests, Adrian Christy and Mike Emery. Adrian Christy became Chief Executive of Table Tennis England in March 2022. P...
UP291 Mo Salah's Agent on the Meaning of Transfer Deadline Day
January 31, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBMo Salah was a teenager playing for Cairo-based club Arab Contractors in the Egyptian Premier League, when he was spotted by Sascha Empacher, the founder of the SPOCS football agency. Today, Salah is one of the world's greatest players, after a series of transfers took from Basel, Chelsea, Roma and to his current home, Liverpool. Empacher's business has also grown considerably, making him ideally placed to star in the recent documentary, called Deadline Day: Football’s Transfer Window, pr...
UP290 AI, Google and the World Cup clip economy
January 24, 2023 14:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBHow did you watch Qatar 2022? Did you sit in front of a big TV showing live games in real time? Or did you consume thousands of clips across social media and via AI curated digital platforms such as Google OneBox, which saw the biggest ever surge in search queries for football related content during the tournament. The FIFA World Cup was made up of 30,000 highlights clips. That epic final between Argentina and France generated 800 of those, with Messi the king of the clip economy, with 1800...
UP289 Sport's Napster moment and the lessons of Spotify
January 20, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBWill Page was Chief Economist of Spotify and PRS for Music and is the author of the critically acclaimed book Tarzan Economics. Some Will Page references to read alongside the pod. This chart from The Economist on the age of festival headliners New Year New Ideas, key chart showing the growth of stadiums and festivals below - think Big Eventer) Billboard: Examining Covid's Impact on UK's live and recorded industries Music Business Worldwide: Live Music Goes From Suffering to Recoveri...
UP288 Esport Economics - The in-game ad market
January 16, 2023 16:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBThe market for in-game advertising and sponsorship is valued at around $8billion, and is predicted to more than double by the end of the decade. The audience is young, affluent and increasingly diverse, so it's unsurprising that big brand names are seeking ways in to this world, via the publishers of mobile and big box console game titles such as League of Legends, Call of Duty or FIFA. Great for brands, but what do gamers think of commercial messages gatecrashing their party? We asked tod...
UP287 The Bundle 2023 Preview
January 13, 2023 16:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBWhat's going to happen to the sports media and streaming market in 2023? We asked Bundle regulars Yannick Ramcke and Murray Barnett for their hopes, fears and predictions for the year ahead. Price hikes, subscription wars, economic woes and OTT white elephants; it's all here. Plus what the year holds for Disney, Sky, DAZN, the FAANGs and the a host of Drive to Survive wannabes. Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provokin...
UP286 The Athlete Investor trend
January 10, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBWhy are so many leading athletes putting their money in to early stage sports tech ventures? What are the pros and cons of having Serena Williams, LeBron James, Naomi Osaka, Tiger Woods or Lewis Hamilton on the cap table of investors? What is being traded for equity in the business, is it cash or fame, or access to the opportunity? And below the 1% of superstar athletes, how is this trend impacting the athlete endorsement market, where the nature of sport sponsorship is changing rapidly. T...
UP285 Kat Craig
December 29, 2022 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBKat Craig is an award winning human rights lawyer who has represented victims of some of sport’s most traumatising sexual abuse cases and played a central role in the remarkable story of the evacuation of women footballers from Afghanistan following the American withdrawal from the country and the subsequent Taliban-led regime in Kabul. In 2016, Craig co-founded Athlead sport and social-impact consultancy with her husband, Nick Wigmore to create the UK’s first not-for-profit consultancy spe...
UP284 The Unofficial Review of 2022
December 20, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBHow was it for you? That's the question we're asking in this final episode of 2022, in our review of the year in the sports business. Our guests are Sanjay Bhandari, who you just heard, Preeti Shetty, Joel Seymour Hyde and Matt Cutler. Sanjay is a lawyer, investor and Chair of Kick It Out, the football anti racism charity. Preeti is non executive board member of Brentford Football Club and founder of tech firm Upshot System. Joel Seymour Hyde is UK Managing Director of the sports marketing ...
UP283 ReThinking Sport: Birmingham 2022
December 13, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBThis year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham was the biggest and costliest sports event held in the UK since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Birmingham 2022 was the largest Commonwealth Games ever held, with 72 participating nations and over 1.3 million tickets sold. It was also the first to have more events for women than men and the first integrated event, with the para competition held at the same time. Alongside the Games, a cultural festival ran across the West Midlands, ...
UP282 The Bundle 21
December 06, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBThe Bundle is our regular series on the sports media and streaming market with co-hosts Yannick Ramcke and Murray Barnett, both fresh from appearing at SportsPro's OTT Summit in Madrid. Yannick is head of OTT at One Football and Murray is director of the DTC Consultancy, founder of 28West Sport and formerly of F1, World Rugby and ESPN. Today, we talk about the return of Bob Iger to Disney, what that might mean for ESPN and why they've just bought the remaining bit of BAMTech they don't yet...
UP281 Martin O'Neill
November 28, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBMartin O'Neill, OBE won two European Cups as a player for Nottingham Forest under the legendary management duo of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor and earning 64 international caps for Northern Ireland including captaining the side at the 1982 World Cup. As a manager O'Neill became one of the most in-demand leaders of his generation, building a reputation as a deep thinker on the game from his start at Wycombe Wanderers, moving through stints in charge at Norwich City, Leicester City, Celtic, ...
UP280 The Race to Convergence
November 22, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBThere's a race on to define the next era of the sports business. The winners will reap enormous financial returns. The losers will likely disappear from view. Sports media and gambling have always been bedfellows. But what comes next is a complete convergence of the two, a seamless offer that puts betting at the very centre of the business model. The appeal is obvious: Gambling companies gain access to valuable new customers; sports teams and leagues gain new licensing opportunities and ...
UP279 How to ambush the World Cup
November 16, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBEverything you need to know about ambush marketing, the dark art of associating with a major event without paying to be an official sponsor. We've gathered a posse of the smartest experts in fields such as brand marketing, sponsorship, sports law, creative and sales promotions agencies. Together we pick apart the idea of official partnership, that underpins the commercial model of FIFA and other sports governing bodies. Official partners buy category exclusivity and have contracted rights ...
UP278 The FTX Ripple
November 14, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBFTX, the second biggest cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy in the US, and the company's founder Sam Bankman-Fried, previously referred to as the King of Crypto, stepped down as chief executive. In the filing, FTX estimated that it had between $10bn and $50bn in assets and liabilities and more than 100,000 creditors, including some of the biggest names in sport, from the Miami Heat to Tom Brady, Mercedes Formula One team and the MLB. The FTX brand has become a familiar presence ove...
UP277 Mo Bobat and the Business of High Performance
November 08, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBToday’s guests are Mo Bobat, Performance Director of the England and Wales Cricket Board, and Omar Chauduri, Chief Intelligence Officer of Twenty First Group. The topic is high performance and its fundamental link to the commercial success of sport. Mo and Omar’s teams worked extensively together on the ECB’s new High Performance Review, chaired by former England captain Sir Andrew Strauss. This aims to improve the quality of both the domestic structure and the men's national side, aide...
UP276 Re:Thinking Sport - Maheta Molango's PFA
November 01, 2022 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBWhen they retire, some professional footballers train to become coaches, and a few rise to become the team manager or director of football. But very, very few players do what Maheta Molango has done, and cross the divide between the playing side and the C-suite, to become the CEO of a top club. It’s a massive Church and State divide, a journey that reveals much about the person who is now in charge of the PFA, The Professional Footballers' Association, the union for all current and forme...
UP275 The Bundle #20
October 25, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBThe Bundle is our regular series looking deep in to the sports broadcast, streaming and media rights market in the company of Yannick Ramcke, Murray Barnett and Charlie Boss. Today's headline topics are: DAZN acquires Eleven Sport; NBA's latest D2C play; World Rugby acquires Rugby Pass; Potential Saudi (PIF) investment into BeIN sport. For previous episodes of the series, search 'The Bundle' on Unofficial Partner/podcast To get the best analysis of the sports business in your inbox every...
UP274 FWIW: Private Equity in Australian Soccer
October 18, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBThis is episode 3 of For What It's Worth our regular series in collaboration with Turnstile, the sponsorship valuation service. Today's special guest is Danny Townsend, the CEO of The Australian Professional Leagues, aka the A-Leagues, home of professional soccer, comprising men's, women's, youth and esports competitions. Townsend formerly held global leadership roles at Repucom and Nielsen Sport before becoming chief executive of Sydney FC, and then moving to head up the league. In Decemb...
UP273 The Web3 Brainstorm Live at Emirates Stadium
October 10, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBThis podcast is a recording of the Unofficial Partner Web3 brainstorm which took place at Emirates Stadium in London, the home of Arsenal Football Club, who were our collaborators on the project. The subject matter covered NFTs, blockchain, crypto and DAOs. To make things interesting, we gave a group of experts a problem to solve over the course of the evening. The conceit of the brainstorm was this: UP FC is a middling Premier League club with ambitions to ‘enhance fan engagement via web...
UP272 Ed Smith Live at Leaders
October 04, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBEd Smith is one of the most innovative thinkers in sport. The former test cricketer turned author and broadcaster co-created the Institute of Sports Humanities, and in 2018 was made chief selector for England men's cricket. His new book is called Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine, in which he asks some very important questions facing sport and business today, offering a framework for identifying and maximising talent, spotting team weaknesses and communicating ideas th...
UP271 Kara Nortman
September 27, 2022 12:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBKara Nortman is one of the three founders of Angel City Football Club, along with Julie Uhrman and the actor Natalie Portman, and it’s the first women’s professional soccer team in Los Angeles for over ten years. But the story has been about far more than football. A host of famous people have come on board, Serena Williams, Alexis Ohanian, Mia Hamm, Eva Longoria and Jessica Chastain to name just a few of the club’s investors, who are buying in to one of the sports business’s most intrigu...
UP270 The Figo Affair
September 23, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBOur guests today are Ben Nicholas and David Tryhorn, the creators behind a new Netflix documentary, The Figo Affair: The Transfer That Changed Football. The film chronicles a three week period in 2000 when the superstar Portuguese player Luis Figo left Barcelona for arch rivals Real Madrid. The result was a political storm, the legacy of which remains in place today. The deal heralded the beginning of Real Madrid’s galáctico era and with it a shift in how football transfer market works, al...
UP269 Sports business networks and how to build them
September 16, 2022 13:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBSeptember always has a back to school vibe and with it comes the start of conference season, an opportunity for all us to get away from our computer screens and meet people out there in the real world. This brings with it the subject of networking, the skill of building valuable relationships with people who may or may not be of use to your personal professional development. To talk about the best and worst ways to do this are Laura McQueen, Managing Director of Leaders in Sport, who's in c...
UP268 IMG WTF?
September 13, 2022 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBAdam Kelly has been at IMG for over twenty years and is now the president of IMG Media, overseeing the four core units of rights sales, production, betting and digital media, the latter part via the recently acquired Seven League. In May this year IMG announced a twelve year strategic partnership with The Rugby Football League (RFL) and Super League Europe, with the headline objective to ‘reimagine Rugby League and its competitions in the UK’. The agreement follows the recent decision for t...
UP267 Stop saying OTT
September 05, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBThe acronym OTT has become ubiquitous in recent years, but what does it really mean, and what are the implications of the decisions being made today by sports organisations big and small. OTT stands for “Over The Top” and refers to the way a streaming service delivers content over the internet. The service is delivered “over the top” of another platform. The term has become ubiquitous across the sports business in recent years, talking to the options now available to fans, beyond the trad...
UP266 Web3 WTF - Sillytuna x Sporting Crypto
August 30, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBToday we're going deep in to football's relationship with NFTs, crypto, blockchain and all things web3, as preparation for our inaugural Unofficial Partner event: Wise UP - the Live Web3 Brainstorm which his being held on the evening of Wednesday 21st September at The Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal Football Club in London. Tickets are £50 each and are available to buy here. Our guests today are two of several experts who will be joining me on stage on the night. Alex Amsel (@Sillytu...
UP265 The Bundle 19
August 23, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBThe Bundle is our regular deep dive in to the sports broadcast and streaming market with regular guests Yannick Ramcke, head of OTT for OneFootball, and Murray Barnett, Director of D2C Sport, specialists in direct to consumer media, and Founder of 26West Sport, a sports commercial advisory consultancy. This conversation was recorded just after the deadline for broadcaster submissions for UEFA's Champions League rights tender in North America and so much of the podcast focuses on the US spor...
UP264 Anatomy of a Saint
August 19, 2022 08:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBWho, or what, is a Southampton (Saints) fan? It's a trickier question than it first appears, because when the sports business conversation moves to describing fans, it often refers to them as a homogenous blob of cliches and replica shirt wearing stereotypes. In reality, obviously, they are a collection of individual people, with different reasons for supporting a club. This makes pleasing them difficult. And this is the job of today's guest Sarah Batters, Director of Marketing and Partner...
UP263 Eng-ger-land: Football, race and identity politics
August 16, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBActor and playwright Hannah Kumari has been performing her own one woman play 'Eng-ger-land' at football clubs around Britain. The play was written in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and is inspired by Hannah’s own experiences of going to football matches as a mixed-race teenager in the 90s. ENG-ER-LAND blends 90s nostalgia with themes of racism, identity politics, lad culture and the idea of Englishness; what does it mean to be English and who gets to define that? Her story gi...
UP262 Esport Economics: The Creator Marketplace
August 05, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBThis is episode 4 of our series looking at the business of esports, in collaboration with Nielsen Sport, the world’s leading source of sports measurement and analytics. Today’s conversation moves the focus to the subject of influencer marketing: what is it, who is being influenced, how much brand marketing money is being spent, what evidence is there of its impact and what is the effect on the sport sponsorship market more generally of the rise of esport creators? Our guests are Seb Carmich...
UP261 ReThinking Sport: Dawn Airey
August 05, 2022 07:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBThis is an episode of ReThinking Sport, our series created in collaboration with Portas, the global strategy consultancy dedicated to sport and physical activity. Our guests are Dawn Airey, who chairs the Barclays FA Women's Super League and Championship board and Elise Kossaifi, head of the women and sport practice at Portas. The conversation was recorded a few days after England's Lionesses beat Germany at Wembley to win the UEFA Women's Euros. So the topic is, what now? How can the WSL...
UP260 The L Word
August 02, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBWhat's the point of major sports events? Ten years on from London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we talk about legacy, promises, over claims and returns on investment. As the UEFA Women's Euros ends and the Commonwealth Games continuing in Birmingham, it's a subject that's ever more relevant to the business of sport, which makes ever more ambitious claims as to the short and long term returns of big events including economic benefit, participation booms and other categories of societal...
UP259 Inside Soccer's Billion Dollar Game Market
July 29, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBThe market for soccer simulation games is dominated by EA Sports' FIFA franchise, a licensing agreement that is in its 23rd and final year. It's a very lucrative market. Last year EA made around $1.6billion in net revenues, with 150million players. FIFA makes around $150million from the license. So what happens now? How will EA and FIFA move forward in this new era and is EA's market dominance vulnerable to new entrants, in a world where millions of young people have grown up playing free to...
UP258 The Ticket Problem
July 26, 2022 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBMatch tickets are the point at which the promise of new technology meets real life. And the results are mixed. Some of the biggest football matches in recent times have been blighted by claims and counter claims of ticket fraud and technology failures, most notably at the 2022 UEFA Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool in Paris, the start of which was delayed amid frightening and chaotic scenes outside the Stade de France as thousands of ticket holding Liverpool fans were...
UP256 ReThinking Sport: UEFA Women's Euros
July 19, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBThis is an episode of ReThinking Sport, our series created in collaboration with Portas, the global strategy consultancy dedicated to sport and physical activity. Today’s guest is Baroness Sue Campbell of Loughborough, the former chair of UK Sport who is now The FA’s Director of Women’s Football. We talk about the UEFA Women’s Euros, currently taking place across England. We use this as a jumping off point to ask, what are The FA’s hopes and plans for the women’s game, how will the Wome...
UP257 ReThinking Sport: UEFA Women's Euros
July 19, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBThis is an episode of ReThinking Sport, our series created in collaboration with Portas, the global strategy consultancy dedicated to sport and physical activity. Today’s guest is Baroness Sue Campbell of Loughborough, the former chair of UK Sport who is now The FA’s Director of Women’s Football. We talk about the UEFA Women’s Euros, currently taking place across England. We use this as a jumping off point to ask, what are The FA’s hopes and plans for the women’s game, how will the Wome...
UP256 The Godfather of Sports Law
July 12, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBMichael Beloff QC is often described as ‘the godfather of sports law’ and the person who Chambers legal directory said ‘more or less invented sports law’ as a discipline. As a result Beloff is one of the most influential people in world sport over the past three decades. He’s written a memoir about his life and career in and out of sport. It’s called MJBQC and we recommend it highly. Beloff was called to the Bar in 1967 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1981. He’s been a Member of the Cour...
UP255 OneFootball meets Web3
July 05, 2022 14:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBToday’s guest is Lucas Von Cranach, the founder and CEO of OneFootball, the global media platform based in Berlin with regional offices around the world. The company recently announced it had raised a $300 million Series D funding round led by blockchain investor Liberty City Ventures, creating a web3 joint venture, One Football Labs, with blockchain games firm Animoca Brands and Dapper Labs known for its sports NFT deals with the NBA and NFL. This follows last year’s acquisition by OneFo...