Unofficial Partner Podcast

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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Update frequency: every 3 days
Average duration: 50 minutes
Episodes: 500
Years Active: 2019 - 2025

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E80: All Models Are Wrong #4 Aarti Dabas

This is another in our series All Models Are Wrong, which goes deep in to the subject of digital strategy in sport. Previous episodes have featured Mark Oliver, Alex Balfour and Daniel Kirschner, eac…

00:47:23 | Tue 09 Jun 2020

E79: Decision making with Ed Smith

Today’s podcast is a conversation with Ed Smith, the chair of England cricket selectors on the subject of decision making, the first of an occasional series on various aspects of leadership.Ed was a …

00:45:34 | Fri 05 Jun 2020

E78: Who's There? #1 - Matt Locke

From sport and music, to films, radio or literature, every part of the culture industry is defined and shaped by the metrics we use to measure the audience for them.But who decides what metrics to u…

00:53:03 | Tue 02 Jun 2020

E77: What happens now

Today we ask what’s going to happen next? What should we all look out for as, when or if things return to whatever normal looks like post-covid. To help answer the question, we asked James Toller and…

00:36:57 | Fri 29 May 2020

E76: Money Talks #1 - Jason Traub

Today’s podcast is the first in a series called Money Talks, conversations about sport’s relationship with private equity, venture capital and the financial markets. We’re asking a series of simple q…

01:02:48 | Tue 26 May 2020

E75: All models are wrong #3 Daniel Kirschner

Today’s podcast is the latest episode of in our series on the past, present and future of digital strategy. You can find the other episodes via our website unoffiicalpartner.com or your preferred pod…

00:47:24 | Fri 22 May 2020

E74: Jim Glover - CSM Sport & Entertainment

Today’s podcast is a conversation about sports agencies: what they do, how the current shutdown is going to change that and the longer term opportunities and threats they face.CSM’s Jim Glover has be…

00:48:03 | Tue 19 May 2020

E73: All Models Are Wrong #2 Mark Oliver

Mark Oliver was the BBC’s first head of strategy before creating Oliver and Ohlbaum Associates, one of the leading sport and entertainment strategy boutiques helping investors, media owners, tech com…

00:50:37 | Fri 15 May 2020

E72: All Models Are Wrong #1 Alex Balfour

Welcome to All Models Are Wrong, the first in a new occasional series of Unofficial Partner conversations that focus specifically on digital strategy in sport. We first met Alex Balfour when he was c…

00:49:11 | Tue 12 May 2020

E71: David Coulthard MBE

Today we talk to David Coulthard, MBE the Formula One racing driver turned presenter and commentator, who co-founded the sports production company Whisper Films with BT presenter Jake Humphrey and fo…

00:55:51 | Fri 08 May 2020

E70: The New Calendar

Today’s guest is Angus Buchanan, the managing director and co-founder of The Sports Consultancy, one of the leading independent consultancies in the sport and entertainment sector, and occupy a space…

00:42:45 | Tue 05 May 2020

E69: How to raise millions in a week: The new rules of sports fundraising

In today’s podcast we wanted to talk about something happy, something fundamentally good. And this week has seen the sports business at its very best. Brilliant people using sport to raise enormous…

00:49:01 | Fri 01 May 2020

E68: Brand purpose and the Special Olympics

Today’s guest is Michelle Carney, CEO of Special Olympics GB, a non-profit organisation and the largest provider of year-round sports coaching and competition for children and adults with intellectua…

00:44:40 | Tue 28 Apr 2020

E67: The future of golf’s pro tours

We talk to Chubby Chandler and Nathan Homer about the big business questions facing the professional golf tours in Europe and America. It’s a conversation that needs a bit of context, for listeners w…

00:52:33 | Fri 24 Apr 2020

E66:Chris Hirst on Leadership

I first met Chris Hirst when he became Global chief executive at Havas Creative Network, which meant he was my boss while I worked at Cake the havas sport and entertainment agency in the network’s ki…

00:33:49 | Tue 21 Apr 2020

E65: Coke & The Olympics

Thierry Borra spent 25 years working in sport for The Coca Cola Company, and for a large period of that time was responsible for the relationship with the Olympic Games.So what does the postponement …

00:44:42 | Fri 17 Apr 2020

E64: We need to talk about…rugby

Today’s podcast is one of a regular series of deep dives in to the commercial landscape in a particular sport. Each sport faces challenges that are common to all, but also there are specific differen…

00:41:24 | Thu 16 Apr 2020

E63: Martin Offiah

Martin Offiah MBE is a rare thing, a rugby league player who is also a household name. As a player in the 1980s and 90s, he had an extraordinary impact on the game, scoring over 500 tries during his …

00:34:25 | Wed 15 Apr 2020

E62: Gareth Balch - Two Circles

Gareth Balch co-founded Two Circles in 2011 when he 28 years old, and the business has since become one of the most influential sports marketing agencies to emerge over the last decade. They came to …

00:36:43 | Tue 14 Apr 2020

E61: Brett Gosper of World Rugby

Today we talk to Brett Gosper the chief executive of World Rugby about how his career in advertising frames what sees as the role of a governing body.As a player in the 1980s, Gosper was a talented…

00:36:43 | Thu 09 Apr 2020

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