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Julian Jackson
Nov 7, 20234 min read
Owning Your Customer Data Is the Key to Profitability. Here's Why.
BY STEPHEN GOULD • AUG 18, 2022 In the age of information, owning consumer data can be the difference between growth and stagnation. Gone...
Julian Jackson
Nov 7, 20235 min read
Why Brands Should Take a Fan-Approach to Connect With Their Customers
By Tom Dougherty, Chief Growth Officer, UNRVLD There’s no doubt that fandom is a lucrative business. A study by the Lending Tree...
Julian Jackson
Sep 29, 20233 min read
Sports Will Make Content Creators Rich (And Grow The Industry in The Process)
The wild transition of media and how short-form content is changing sports forever By Andrew Petcash Sept 22nd, 2023 Radio...
Julian Jackson
Jun 28, 20235 min read
AI AND SPORTS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
By: Andrew Petcash for Profluence Sports June 20, 2023 Have you ever gone on YouTube to watch a video and emerged 3 hours later...
Julian Jackson
Jun 21, 20232 min read
DATA MONETISATION AND LOYALTY CAN GENERATE RELEVANT VALUE FOR “PASSION-DRIVEN” BRANDS
be-tse.it 21st June 2023 Innovation in loyalty models combined with Big Data and analytics opportunities can create huge...
Julian Jackson
Jun 21, 20234 min read
How data can drive fan monetisation.
Judd Goldstein, head of sports fan engagement at Genius Sports, explains how sports have an opportunity to take ownership of the fan...
Julian Jackson
Jan 13, 20235 min read
NBA Joins Gamification Wave, Fanning the Flames of Loyal Followers
Jacob Feldman November 28, 2022 When Hope Tannenbaum joined the NBA in 2020, the idea of the league launching a fan rewards...
Julian Jackson
Jan 9, 20234 min read
Why media brands need to monetise content beyond YouTube
By Ellen Grogan, Director, Product Marketing at Brightcove Hundreds of successful media brands have gotten their start in online video by...
Julian Jackson
Jan 4, 20232 min read
Why Data is Central to Sports Monetization
Rory Renwick, Sales & Business Development Director, Accedo January 2023 Sports consumption has changed significantly in recent years,...
Julian Jackson
Dec 21, 20224 min read
Are Shoppable Experiences the Future of Sports Monetization?
Rory Renwick, Sales and Business Development Director, Accedo. Sept 2022 Sports federations, clubs, and broadcasters have been under...
Julian Jackson
Dec 21, 20225 min read
How Sports Organizations Can Win Big with Shoppable Content
Bleuenn LeGoffic, VP Strategy and Solutions, Accedo. May 2022 In a recent blog post HERE , it was discussed whether shoppable...
Julian Jackson
Dec 21, 20221 min read
Reimagining Sports Fan Engagement with New Real Time Experiences | RTE2022
A session from the Agora RTE 2022 Conference in October 2022: Learn new ways to attract Gen Z, so fan experiences are engaging by...
Julian Jackson
Nov 2, 202211 min read
Social commerce: The future of how consumers interact with brands
McKinsey & Company October 19, 2022 Browsing and shopping directly on social media platforms is a core feature of e-commerce in...
Julian Jackson
Sep 30, 20225 min read
Dubai Globe Soccer Awards to be held in November
mySPORT powered by Emerce develop new fan engagement platform for fan voting. ResultX Asia 28th Sept 2022 The one-day event will bring...
Julian Jackson
Aug 1, 20223 min read
Inter Milan’s launching of their own OTT platform signifies a trend that many teams are likely adopt
Many teams are realizing that controlling their own content is key in an increasingly digital landscape, and the move is a mutually...
Julian Jackson
Jul 22, 20222 min read
LiveStream Shopping gains popularity in the US with Whatnot's valuation rising to $3.7 Billion
Christine Hall, TechCrunch July 22, 2022 Livestream shopping in the United States has a ways to go to catch up with China’s...
Julian Jackson
Jul 20, 20224 min read
Navigating data challenges to ‘own the fan journey’
Josh Linforth, managing director of media and engagement at Genius Sports, explains how the sports data and technology company is...
Julian Jackson
Jul 19, 20223 min read
Spotify Places Sports And Esports At Center Of Digital Audio Strategy
Spotify’s mission has changed slightly in recent years. No longer content with being just a music streaming service, Spotify wants to...
Julian Jackson
Jul 5, 202210 min read
Ready, player? How sport can prepare for life in the metaverse
Kevin McCullagh, SportBusiness June 22, 2022 Microsoft and GSIC technologist Jesus Serrano speaks to SportBusiness about the...
Julian Jackson
Jul 4, 20224 min read
Sports media’s ‘multi-polar’ world
Streaming isn't killing the traditional sports television powerhouses; instead, a new world of multiple sports video platforms has...
Julian Jackson
Jun 22, 20223 min read
How APAC football is engaging a coveted audience
SportBusiness.com June 15, 2022 Mohamed Feizel, head of Sports Tech for APAC, Genius Sports, says football leagues and clubs across Asia...
Julian Jackson
May 31, 20222 min read
Why not create your own social media platform?
By James White, Co-Founder of ResultXasia.com & mysport.asia 31st May 202 The time is NOW to own your fan data and provide more...
Julian Jackson
May 5, 20227 min read
“We’re becoming a targeted marketing powerhouse” | Drew Crisp, Liverpool’s SVP digital
Adam Nelson, Europe office SportBusiness May 4, 2022 Drew Crisp, Liverpool's senior vice president of digital, at the club's Anfield...
Julian Jackson
Mar 8, 20229 min read
How WWE has established itself as a sports technology pioneer
By Steve McCaskill For SportsProMedia.com 4th March 2022 Technology has transformed WWE and allowed it to maintain its position as the...
Julian Jackson
Mar 3, 20221 min read
Increase Fan Engagement with Social Betting
If you are a betting company looking to engage closer with your clients and want to increase your average bet per customer. Check out...
Julian Jackson
Dec 6, 20211 min read
Is TikTok Destroying Sports?
If you have been involved with fan engagement and media rights for a while, you will know that the landscape is changing very quickly and...
Julian Jackson
Nov 30, 20214 min read
What does the metaverse mean for sport?
Facebook’s rebrand as ‘Meta’ in late October thrust the concept of the metaverse into the mainstream, and sports rights-holders are...
Julian Jackson
Nov 23, 20216 min read
How interactive fan engagement will transform the next generation of streaming service
Tom McDonnell, CEO of Monterosa - 18th November 2021 We now have so many different ways of using our time, and of the countless options...
Julian Jackson
Nov 10, 20217 min read
15 things we now know about sports streaming | Nick Meacham
Ahead of this year's OTT Summit, SportsPro managing director and StreamTime Podcast host Nick Meacham shares some of the key lessons...
Julian Jackson
Nov 1, 20215 min read
What traditional sports can learn from Twitch
Robert Zitzmann, chief executive of Jung von Matt SPORTS, and Carl Kuhn, the creative agency’s head of esports and gaming, explain how...
Julian Jackson
Oct 28, 202112 min read
The Metaverse: What is it and what does it mean for the sports industry?
Huge parts of the technology sector are aligning their visions for the future in the metaverse, a world beyond the internet built on...
Julian Jackson
Oct 27, 20211 min read
Navigating SEA: Monetising fan engagement in the digital era
The final session of SportsPro's new four-part, fortnightly APAC Series offers a detailed look at Southeast Asia This article originally...
Julian Jackson
Oct 25, 20211 min read
Livestreamer sells record US$2b of goods in one day!!
To prove the success of Social Commerce as major revenue stream for content creators, China’s Li Jiaqi, a top livestream salesman widely...
Julian Jackson
Oct 20, 20212 min read
Harnessing the power of user-generated content
Anyone can be a content creator now. And sports fans are among the most prolific of any group when it comes to making and sharing content...
Julian Jackson
Oct 18, 20211 min read
How can sports orgs make the most of social audio? | Webinar replay
In a replay of an October 14 webinar, we explore the fast-growing realm of social audio, an emerging form of digital content that has...
Julian Jackson
Oct 18, 20213 min read
Facebook outage is a warning to rights-holders to build their O&O | Johan Junker
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recent issues emphasise why it is important for sports rights-holders to develop audiences on...
Julian Jackson
Oct 15, 20212 min read
The Cookie Apocalypse is Coming
Digital marketing is about to go through a revolution. You may have heard it, Google will get rid of its cookies. Johan Junker of...
Julian Jackson
Oct 8, 20216 min read
Murray Barnett | The major opportunities in micropayments
The director of specialist, independent OTT and direct-to-consumer media consultancy D2C Sport argues that microtransactions can bring...
Julian Jackson
Sep 30, 20214 min read
How social betting will reshape fan engagement
The monetisation and engagement opportunities that are available through social betting on over-the-top streaming platforms have the...
Julian Jackson
Sep 15, 20213 min read
Digital ad spend rockets with social media and real time video the biggest gainers.
According to an industry insight report from Socialbakers, the leading social media marketing platform, its comprehensive review and...
Julian Jackson
Sep 6, 20214 min read
Are you really taking advantage of Social Media?
Many sports rights holders are extensively using platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & Twitch to engage with their fans, but...
Julian Jackson
Sep 4, 20214 min read
The time for Real Time Engagement is NOW.
Real Time Engagement is a buzz phrase that has been around for a few years, but only now are we seeing the convergence of affordable &...
Julian Jackson
Sep 3, 20215 min read
How leagues can leverage their marketable athletes to achieve success on social
Greenfly chief marketing officer, Tom Kuhr, explains how competition organisers can make the most of their best public-facing assets -...
Julian Jackson
Aug 25, 20212 min read
Webinar replay | Beyond ads and subscriptions: monetising next gen sports streaming services
In this recording of the latest webinar from SportBusiness, our panel of media experts examine the new revenue opportunities in...
Julian Jackson
Aug 1, 20213 min read
How sport is pivoting to a direct-to-fan offering
After the abandoned European Super League revolt, Tom Dougherty, MD at Unrvld, a new digital agency, predicts this won’t be the last time...
Julian Jackson
Jul 30, 20217 min read
Virtual tips are helping content creators actually make money
We’re not used to paying for social media posts or streams, but it’s now easier than ever to send someone a little cash. By Terry Nguyen...
Julian Jackson
Jul 28, 20219 min read
It’s showtime! How live commerce is transforming the shopping experience
Blending entertainment with instant purchasing, live commerce offers retailers, brands, and digital platforms a new channel with enormous...
Julian Jackson
Jul 22, 20215 min read
When sport meets social audio
The social audio sector has enjoyed unprecedented expansion over the past year. However, what are the implications for sport? By Rory...
Julian Jackson
Jul 14, 20215 min read
Real-time engagement will reshape sports.
Real-time engagement is becoming an increasingly essential tool for sports rights-holders, broadcaster and brands that are seeking to...
Julian Jackson
Jul 14, 20215 min read
Post-Covid monetisation of fan engagement
Developing your own social audio or social video layer provides numerous monetisation opportunities during sports coverage, whilst giving...
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