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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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45:12

UP437 Pickle, Padel and the LTA: Natural Home or NGB...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/11/12

There’s a row going on over who should run the nascent and potentially commercially valuable sports of padel and pickleball. This issue has a universal application across many sports, as NGBs seek to wrap their arms around what they might call strategic adjacencies. So, what are pros and cons of the LTA owning Padel and Pickleball.Is the NGB model the right one? Do we want or need every version of a sport to have its own governing body, or is the LTA just the best compromise solution whe...

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41:22

UP436 The Bundle Live @ Sportel Monaco

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/11/08

A special live episode recorded on stage at Sportel Monaco, the global sports television and technology convention.Guests:Glen Killane, Executive Director of Sport, European Broadcast Union, the EBU.Claire Kelly, Managing Director of Gemba Europe and Middle East.Yannick Ramcke, General Manager of OTT at OneFootball.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 ...

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61:51

UP435 Dame Tracey Crouch: The Budget, Blame and the...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/11/05

Dame Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch DBE (born 24 July 1975) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham and Aylesford from 2010 to 2024. Crouch was appointed as Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness in 2017, but resigned in 2018 due to a delay over the introduction of reduced limits on the stakes of fixed odds betting terminals.In April 2021, Crouch was appointed to chair a review of English football following the controversy ove...

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48:56

UP434 Expected Goals Takeover

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/11/01

A special bonus episode of Expected Goals, Unofficial Partner's sister podcast on the women's football business, with co-hosts Maggie Murphy and Matt Cutler. Joining them is Polly Bancroft, CEO of Grimsby Town FC, who was formerly head of women's football at Manchester United and lists Brighton and Hove Albion, Nottingham Forest and UEFA on an extensive resume.Expected Goals is published every Wednesday. Search in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app. Unofficial Par...

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58:19

UP433 The Bundle - NFL and FIFA global ambitions; The...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/29

Welcome to The Bundle, our regular series on the sports media and streaming marketplace with co-hosts Yannick Ramcke, General Manager of OTT at the streaming service OneFootball and Murray Barnett, founder of 26West Consulting and formerly of F1, World Rugby and ESPN International. This week’s podcast is sponsored by We Are Sweet - helping you tell compelling stories in-the-moment, as they happen, from the heart of the action.We Are Sweet captures live biometric data from athletes to uncover ...

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45:21

UP452 The Big Idea - And1 Mixtapes, Joga Bonito and CRTZ

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/22

The Big Idea is our regular series on creativity, with co-host award winning consulting Creative Director Simon Moore.We ask a guest to bring three of their favourite sports related creative campaigns.This week it's Gundeep Anand in the hot seat.Gundeep founded The Last Stand and is a docu-style Director & Photographer whose work is influenced by his background as an ex-youth worker, coaching in communities, council estates and schools.Gundeep choices are:And 1 MixtapesCRTZ x NikeJoga Bon...

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41:57

UP451 Gareth Balch on why Two Circles has bought KORE

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/18

Fresh from an excellent Leaders Summit at Twickenham, or should we say Allianz Stadium, is a conversation with Gareth Balch, founder and CEO of Two Circles agency about the agreement to buy KORE Software, a deal announced this week.Two Circles is buying the company from Serent Capital, the private equity firm that bought Kore in 2018. Earlier this year, Two Circles themselves sold a majority stake in their business to private equity firm Charterhouse Capital Partners, a transaction which valu...

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52:21

UP450 Other People's Money: How to Sell (or Buy) a...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/15

Other People's Money is our regular series on sports investment, with co-host Matt Rogan, co-founder of Two Circles.Today we get in to the minutiae of deal making, with Steve Hacking, managing partner at Latitude Partners, who has worked on more than 200 company acquisitions for clients across both buy and sell side of investment deals in sectors ranging from technology and telecoms to media, healthcare, retail and sport, including working on behalf of Sky Sports and British Cycling in the cr...

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48:12

UP449 The 3: The Melancholic Leaving Them Wanting...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/11

The 3 is a failed experiment in podcast format innovation. The 3 is a creative collaboration between Unofficial Partner and Leaders in Sport. The 3 picks three stories from the sports business week and dissects them on a Friday morning. The 3 may return, and it might not.This week Richard Gillis, David Cushnan and James Emmett pick these three stories:Will the cool kids be wearing FIFA 1904? Wither the Wimbledon line judge.What is Brand Saudi now?Unofficial Partner is the ...

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43:52

UP448 The Squeezed Middle - Frenemies: Where Next For...

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

2024/10/08

This is a follow up to our popular series of last year, The Squeezed Middle, which was a collaboration with PTI Digital, the independent strategy and technology consultancy. This episode looks in to a new report, The Sports Leadership Benchmark, based on a survey of sports CEOs, carried out by PTI. You can download the report, for free, at ptidigitalgroup.comJoining Richard are Ben Wells, CEO of PTI Digital and Aquatics GB CEO and former EFL Marketing Director, Drew Barrand.This podcast is sp...

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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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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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UP422 The 3 - The Stephen Hawking Episode

Unofficial Partner Podcast ·

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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