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Unofficial Partner Podcast

Unofficial Partner

Unofficial 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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38:39

UP247 Lalit Modi Exclusive: “The Hundred is a...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/06

The ECB is currently seeking investors for The Hundred franchises, the short form cricket competition and are selling a 49% stake that values them at up to £150m each. Today’s guest Lalit Modi disagrees. The founder of the Indian Premier League explains exclusively to Unofficial Partner why: “Based on the information memorandum a 100% stake in a team would be between £5m and £9m [for] outside London teams, and maximum, if one really wants a trophy asset, is London teams closer to £25m.”Earlie...

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50:57

UP246 The 3: The Who Looks Good in Arsenal Streetwear...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/04

Three stories, three opinions, ten minutes (50minutes)What's in a name? FIFA's Club World Cup stadia naming snafuWhat is streetwear? The deeper meaning of Arsenal's style collabHow old is too old? Sportfive and Tendulkar launch International Masters LeagueThis podcast is sponsored by Leaders in Sport - Get 15% off Summit passesLeaders in Sport connects the most influential people and the most powerful ideas in global sport to catalyse discussion, and drive the industry forward. Through a seri...

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56:33

UP425 The Bundle Live - The StreamAMG Direct-to-Fan...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/01

This is a live episode recorded at StreamAMG's excellent Direct-to-Fan Playbook event, held at Amazon's Liverpool Street headquarters in London. A big thank you goes to the team at StreamAMG for inviting us along, we learnt loads.Joining Richard on stage was Murray Barnett, one half of the regular Bundle presenting team, founder of West26 Consulting and formerly ESPN, F1 and World Rugby.We were joined by Andrew Ryan and David Dellea.Andrew is Managing Director of FIBA Media, the joint ve...

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52:09

UP424 Expected Goals - Introducing the brand new...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/09/27

Today, we're launching a brand new show called Expected Goals, hosted by Matt Cutler and Maggie Murphy. Together Matt and Maggie will explore the business of women's football. Matt Cutler is the former editor of SportBusiness and was Director of Communications at Two Circles. As the head of Unofficial Partner Productions, Matt led on our hit series, The Pirates Versus The Premier League and the more recent Last Orders, on football's relationship with the pub. So he's the perfect person to be ...

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66:50

UP423 Wedge Issues Live @ The BMW PGA Championship

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/09/24

Wedge Issues is Unofficial Partner's business of golf series, where we take some of the big trends from across sport and apply them to golf.This is a special live episode recorded in the boardroom of the DP World Tour's headquarters at The Wentworth Club on the Friday morning of the BMW PGA Championship, the Tour's flagship event. Around the table were people representing many of the golf industry's key stakeholders from across various parts of the game, including sponsors, media, agencies an...

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28:09

UP422 The 3 - The Stephen Hawking Episode

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2024/09/23

The 3 stories are:1. The race for the IOC big job - aka Bach’s overtures (this doesn’t make any sense but makes me sound like I know about classical music, which I don’t, apart from that theme from the Hovis ad). Six months ago the word on the street was that Seb Coe wasn’t running, and now he is. So, was the word wrong, or did he change his mind? Probably the former. Also, is the Samaranch name an asset or liability in the crusty world of IOC voting membership, the age profile of which makes...

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45:02

UP421 Conversations About Women's Health That Men...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/09/17

Earlier this year, The Football Association has became the first national governing body to mandate training on female health, with Women’s Super League and Championship clubs benefitting from a new league-wide support plan covering pregnancy, the menstrual cycle and pelvic health.The FA is working in partnership with The Well, specialists in delivering female health strategies across sport and co-founded by our guest today Baz Moffat. The Well is built on cutting-edge science, expertise...

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44:04

UP420 The 3: The Big Swinging Dick Episode

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/09/13

The journey to creating a ten minute podcast is not a linear one. That's fancy talk for saying that rather than cut last week's half hour episode, this one went one for 45 minutes. Three stories:James Emmett reports from IMG's breathing and finance retreat.Richard Gillis on the big agency bun fight over UEFA rights.David Cushnan on the launch of Juventus Creator Lab. An Unofficial Partner x Leaders in Sport Collaboration.Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of ...

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43:47

UP419 Warming Up: The Planet Can't Afford Sport's Big...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/09/10

Madeleine Orr is a leading sport ecologist and professor at the University of Toronto. A Forbes 30 under 30 inductee, she is the founder and co-director of The Sport Ecology Group, who consult on international climate issues for sports organizations such as the Commonwealth Secretariat, the UNEP, World Athletics, Adidas, F1 teams, and the NCAA. Madeleine has worked closely with the BBC and ESPN to further public understanding of climate issues in sport. Her book Warming Up: How Climate Change...

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32:41

UP418 Introducing The 3: The difficult first episode

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/09/06

We tried to make a short form ten minute podcast and failed. It's supposed to be three stories in ten minutes. Think of this as a work-in-progress. UP's Richard Gillis is joined by James Emmett and David Cushnan from Leaders in Sport. Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter an...

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57:01

UP417 Wedge Issues - Rick Shiels Exclusive

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/09/03

For millions of people, Rick Shiels' YouTube channel is how we watch golf in 2024.Shiels is our very special guest today. He started by uploading golf tips to YouTube 12 years ago to attract people to the Trafford Golf Centre in Manchester. Now there are 900 golf channels on the platform, but only one Rick Shiels, with more than 3 million combined subscribers whose videos have attracted more than three quarters of a billion video views.So this is a conversation about how we watch and consume ...

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64:11

UP216 Other People's Money: Minority Stakes, Gary...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/08/27

Other People's Money is our regular series on sports investment, with regular co-host Matt Rogan, co-founder of Two Circles. Our guests today are Jonathan Lenson and Sam Johnson, CEO and head of sport respectively at Milltown Partners, the communications and public policy consultancy co-founded by Paddy Harverson, the former PR to Manchester United and King Charles, among others.The conversation is prompted by some focus group work carried out by Milltown in to the reputational challenge...

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67:21

UP415 The Bundle - Do you know your ENPs from your LMRs?

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/08/23

NBA v TNT – Exclusive Negotiating Periods and Last Matching Rights are central to the big row over NBA rights. But how they work and why does everyone hate them?Click here to read The Bundle Bulletin for the homework notes from this episode, compiled by regular co-hosts Murray Barnett and Yannick Ramcke.Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of...

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47:58

UP414 Wedge Issues: Callaway boss on Xander,...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/08/20

Ben Sharpe, one of the most influential people in the golf business, as Managing Director & President of Callaway Golf across Europe, Middle East and Asia. Callaway is the largest manufacturer of golf equipment in the world and as such is a bellwether for any conversation about the commercial health of the game. Its tentacles run from the very top of the professional tours down to the participation at grass roots and in to retail and golf entertainment, via its TopGolf and Toptracer subsi...

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39:34

UP413 Paris 2024 Digital Debrief - Which brands...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/08/16

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are over, the medals have been won and lost.And now the sports business conversation shifts to who won the other game, played between some of the biggest companies in the world, each seeking to stand out in the crowd of global and local brands sponsoring, or ambushing, the Olympics. What worked, what didn’t and how has the proliferation of digital channels changed how TOP partners and others approach the job of associating with the greatest show on earth.Our ...

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49:51

UP412 Racists, riots and sport's Twitter exodus

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/08/13

“As soon as the Southport murders happened, the way Muslims specifically were targeted has made you question again whether we do belong, whether deep down in the end, we're always having to justify our existence,” says Azeem Rafiq, the former professional cricketer on today’s podcast. “On an individual level. I’m not sleeping, I’m patrolling around the house, covering letterboxes up, that sort of thing is what all of us have been doing, getting in touch with each other, making sure if you do ...

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45:28

UP411 UP US: The North American Sports Business in 3...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/08/09

We go deep in to the North American market today with Daniel Kaplan, one of the very best reporters covering the US sports business beat. I’ve known Daniel for over twenty years, first when he covered tennis and the NFL for SportsBusiness Journal, and then more latterly at The Athletic, Front Office Sports and Awful Announcing, the sports media news site. We dissect three recent stories involving some of the biggest names in the US market: NFL, UFC, NBC and the Olympic Games. This ...

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50:16

UP410 Ed Smith: 'The Olympics are a civilising force'

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/08/06

We’re in the middle of the Olympic Games in Paris so it’s a good time to ask some bigger questions as to the future of the Olympics and mega sports events more generally, with regular contributor Ed Smith, founder of the Institute of Sports Humanities and fellow guest Dr Simon Rofe, a world leading expert in the field of sports diplomacy, and himself a visiting lecturer at ISH, which helps its students decode the signals derived from history and interrogate the impact of globalisation on spor...

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90:31

UP409 Last Orders: Is Football's Love Affair with the...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/07/30

A documentary special - UP Productions' Matt Cutler explores the changing relationship between two cultural institutions in the UK: football and the pub.The pub has an important place in both professional and grassroots football.As the place friends and family meet before the game, and dissect a win or loss afterwards. Where old school friends reserve a table under the big screen to catch-up on a weekend.And where Sunday League teams - many who operate thanks to patronage from their loca...

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UP408 What Just Happened? How the opening up of the...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/07/26

Why has the value of the NBA's media rights tripled, from $25billion to $75billion this week?"Purely because of gambling,' says Sam Sadi, CEO of LiveScore Group, the media and gambling platform, referencing the opening up of the US gambling marketplace. 'Nothing else that would drive that. Everything was trending downwards until five years ago, and nothing changed in the environment. It can be easily isolated and all of a sudden you see these increases that are much higher than what were proj...

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