UP581 PREM Rugby CEO: Paramount, Eddie Hearn and What R360 Got Wrong
PREM Rugby’s chief executive is preparing to take English club rugby to US investors. Richard Gillis asks him what the pitch is, and what it leaves out.Simon Massie-Taylor has run PREM Rugby since January 2022, after five years leading the RFU’s commercial and marketing work. He ...Show more
UP579 The Bundle - AI Capex vs The sports budget; Scotland vs 3pm; Relevent vs CAA
Richard Gillis is joined by regulars Murray Barnett, founder of 26 West Consulting, and Yannick Ramcke, general manager of OneFootball OTT, for the monthly look at the sports media market. Fresh from Sportel, they ask what a record $65.8bn rights market really tells us, the risk ...Show more
Sports is one of the few forms of premium live content available today, but how fans consume these games or matches is being significantly disrupted. In the second episode of a four-part series on the changing dynamics in the business of sports, host Nicole Pullen Ross discusses ...Show more
In our first-ever After Hours sports episode, we ask why sports teams have become so valuable (is it really just the vanity of billionaire owners), debate the merits of paying amateur athletes, and explore why tennis pros receive such a small fraction of the sport’s overall reven ...Show more
Footballers and other athletes are standing up to the sponsors who subsidise them. Ed Butler speaks to Laurence Halsted, a former British Olympic Fencer who wrote about his concerns about the Games in Rio de Janeiro, in 2016. Sports marketing consultant Tim Crow says the involvem ...Show more