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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.
Unofficial Partner hosts Unofficial Partner Podcast, a sports show with 555 episodes published.
Host: Richard Gillis (Unofficial Partner) Co-host/analyst: Andy Shora (TFG Labs) Three stories this episode: The Mythos/Fable shutdown — Anthropic ordered by the US government to disable its two most powerful models for
AI commoditises knowledge production and throws judgment into scarcity. In this episode, Ed Smith asks what that means for sport, education and the people building careers in the business — and why the humanities might b
Jonathan Licht, Chief Sports Officer at Sky Sports, discusses Sky's dominant position in UK sports broadcasting, strategic partnerships, and the future of sports media. Key topics: Sky's portfolio dominance: 225 Premier
The £295million sale of London Spirit franchise was one of the big sports business stories of the last year. Some of Silicon Valley's most successful and famous leaders buying 49% of The Hundred's Lord's based franchise,
Chat_UP is Unofficial Partner's AI series created in collaboration with TFG Labs. The brief: cut through the AI firehose, work out what matters, and bring it back to the business of sport. Three stories this week. Story
On 22 April 2026, Coca-Cola unveiled Cole Palmer as its newest football brand ambassador, fronting Premier League and World Cup activations. A month later, Tuchel left him out of the England squad. We use the Palmer stor
Richard Gillis, Mike Jakeman and invited guests dissect the business of cricket. The IPL auction has become one of the most watched events in world cricket — part financial instrument, part entertainment spectacle. This
The news agenda around this summer's FIFA World Cup in North America has been dominated by the price of tickets. Why are they so expensive? What's it got to do with changes made by FIFA specifically for this tournament?
The Bundle is the original and much copied series on the sports media and streaming marketplace with co-hosts Yannick Ramcke, General Manager of OTT at the streaming service OneFootball and Murray Barnett, founder of 26W
Picks and Shovels: The Sports Investment Thesis That Doesn't Need Media Rights to Work Altman Solon's seventh annual Global Sports Survey lands with a central argument: sport is maturing into a full-stack asset class. Bu
The NBA Europe franchise sale process has moved from speculation to live transaction. Franchise fees of $500m to $1bn. No broadcast deal. Governance terms that European investors have already pushed back on. And a city m
Louis Theroux's documentary about the manosphere didn't at first seem to have much to do with sports digital strategy? Until you get to the platforms: Kick. Rumble. A whole ecosystem of streaming channels that the sports
Craig Hepburn sits at the intersection of enterprise technology and cultural institutions. He spent years as UEFA’s Chief Digital Transformation Officer, overseeing its digital ecosystem, OTT platform build, and Innovati
This week we go behind the curtain of the 25th Sport Industry Awards, ahead of the big night at Battersea Evolution on Thursday 30th April. With an illustrious group of people from across the industry, Richard and Sean w
A live podcast recorded at MSQ Sport and Entertainment HQ in London for the launch of Callaway Golf's new brand film 'At Last'. You can see the film by clicking this link. As the golfing world looks to Augusta for The Ma
Digital advertising has a dirty secret: most of what you're paying for never reaches a human being. Dr. Augustine Fou is a world leading expert in digital ad fraud and has spent 20 years watching the internet fill up wit
The latest dissection of the sports media and streaming marketplace from the ever popular, long running series featuring expert analysis from Yannick Ramcke and Murray Barnett. This episode goes deep in to: Why Premier L
Three highly experienced communications professionals join Richard to dissect some recent high profile PR gaffes. Guests: Henry Chappell, Founder and CEO of Pitch Marketing Group Neil Daugherty, Senior Managing Director
Ted Knutson's career tracks a remarkable arc: professional gambler at Pinnacle, architect of Brentford's analytics-driven recruitment model, founder of StatsBomb — built from a blog written during cancer recovery into a
Today, we are joined by Ben Curtis, Global Brand Vice President for Rexona —the brand known as Degree in the US, Sure in the UK, and Shield in South Africa. Ben oversees the global strategy for a brand that Unilever iden
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Unofficial Partner Podcast is hosted by Unofficial Partner. The show is categorised under sports (business) and has published 555 episodes.
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