Unofficial Partner Podcast

Closed leagues, club v country, private equity, player exodus, the club pyramid and concussion.
These are just a few of the issues we tackle with Will Greenwood in this special rugby business episode …

Richard and regular side kick Simon Moore, the award winning creative director welcome Gabi Mostert of Homeground to The Big Idea, to discuss the intersection of music and sports in advertising, look…

Today we’re heading to the mountains, or at least, the Peak District, in the company of Molly Thompson Smith and Julian Lings.

Molly is a star of one of the climbing scene, which since Tokyo has been …

Richard and Sean head to Dublin for the PFL Europe.
It's a brutal world, in and out of the ring.

Guests:
Sean O'Connell is former professional mixed martial artist who most recently competed and won a…

Victoire Cogevina Reynal is asking some really interesting questions about the value of women’s football, now and in the years to come.

She is the founder of Mercury 13, an investment consortium creat…

Tia White is Amazon's General Manager of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services (AWS), responsible for owning go-to-market, product, and engineering for a portfolio of se…

Unofficial Partner podcast: Insights from Blast's eSports event in Copenhagen

In this episode Richard and Sean travel to Copenhagen to go behind the scenes at the BLAST Fall Finals, one of the big esp…

What you need to know about what's happening in the sports media and streaming market, with regular co-hosts Yannick Ramcke and Murray Barnett.
We analyse both sides of the negotiation table ahead of …

How will the ESG agenda impact sport?
ESG is short for Environmental, Social and Governance, and is a set of standards measuring business's impact on society, the environment, and how transparent and …

The third episode in our Project 2030 Series, made in collaboration with Two Circles that models the next decade in the sports marketplace. 
The idea is to test some of the assumptions about where spo…

This live panel discussion brings together a group of experts to debate the issues arising from The Pirates vs The Premier League, our successful podcast series that investigated the world of illegal…

At the recent IOC session in Mumbai a number of IOC members called for IOC President Thomas Bach to go another term in the job.
This would give Bach a further four years. The optics aren’t great. It’s…

This is the second episode of our series made in collaboration with Two Circles, where we model the market for sport over the next decade.
Today we analyse the role of the athlete, and to help us we'r…

Hello from Monaco, where UP is taking the temperature of the sports media industry as it wrestles with some big questions. 
We’re at Sportel, the sports media and tech convention, where the deals that…

At the end of Leaders Week London we gathered some smart people together in the podcast booth, to get their views on the highlights of the event, both on and off stage.
Our guests include:
Claire Kell…

This is part of our Squeezed Middle series on the strategic options available to the people running professional sport.
The focus in this episode is the impact of those choices on the commercial incom…

Unofficial Partner has become a media partner of SPORTEL Monaco, the world’s leading Sports Content Media Rights and Technology Convention, which runs from 23rd  to 25th of October.
So in a couple of …

This podcast is a live recording of the UP Billion Dollar Brainstorm which took place at the recent Two Circles Client Summit in the Kelvin Theatre, within the beautiful Institute of Engineering over…

The Unofficial Partner Brainstorm is a podcast recorded in front of a live audience, in partnership with Livescore Group.   The event took place at the top of the iconic ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower on …

Our guest is Richard Scudamore, who was CEO and then Executive Chairman of The Premier League from 1999 to his retirement in 2018, a transformational period in the history of English football and the…