Unofficial Partner Podcast

Unofficial Partner's regular series on the sports media and streaming marketplace. Host: Richard Gillis. Co-hosts:Murray Barnett, founder of 26 West Consulting (formerly F1, World Rugby, ESPN); Yannick Ramcke, general manager of OTT at OneFootball. The rights ceiling: NFL and IPL as warning signs on rights inflation Exclusivity in question: co-exclusivity, mixed packages and "intelligent auctions" India: JioStar's monopoly, monetisability, and football's stalled growth DAZN's EverPass deal an...

Spin Class is our regular series with experts in sports communications, PR and reputation management. Football's transfer window is one of the definitive sports business stories. Its cast of characters include players, agents, managers, club owners and a small number of journalists cum influencers with massive social media followings and the power to impact the market via insider intel and gossip. At the centre of all this is the clubs' PR teams seeking to control the narrative.&n...

Nigel Rushman is one of the most effective operators in the modern sports business — a fixer and dealmaker who spent four decades at the delivery end of major events, building a parallel international career brokering deals across governments and industry. After a start in restaurants — London, Paris, a Michelin three-star kitchen — he built a catering company, sold it, and moved into commercial events and then crisis-management PR. His breakthrough sporting client was Peter de Savary's...

Few people sit closer to the epicentre of the sports digital economy than Daniel Kirschner. As co-founder and CEO of Greenfly, he oversees the connective tissue running between rights holders, athletes and fans; the infrastructure that turns a moment on the pitch into content on your phone within seconds. Creator strategy and the platform deals. How rights holders selectively route content to favoured creators (Goldbridge as proxy) and to TikTok/YouTube. Richard presses the FIFA-TikTok/...

Spin Class is Unofficial Partner's series on sports comms, PR, reputation and crisis management. Three stories: A FIFA president everyone's written off who isn't going anywhere. A billion-dollar golf breakaway running out of road. And a heavyweight fight that keeps getting made and unmade in public. What connects them? In every case the sport is almost beside the point — the real contest is the spin. This week's guests: Jon Tibbs OBE, JTA and Henry Chappell, Pitch Mark...