The Business of Sport - Hilary Wells
The Business of Sport
Hilary Wells - Chief HR Officer, Chief HR Officer, Sony Sports Businesses, Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd, Beyond Sports & Pulselive Hilary on ED&I: “ED&I is huge on our agenda, not only for me and my team from an HR perspective, but its an expectation from the employment market that we are “on point” when it comes to ED&I, as well as sustainability, environment, community – all those social impact aspects that are really important to us. There’s more work to do, but we have done quite a lot of work already, ensuring that we have...
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The Business of Sport - Eric Stark
The Business of Sport
Eric Stark is a co-founder and President of Slate, a US-based company that simplifies social content creation for brands, making the process much faster. Winners of the 2022 ISC Sports Tech Company of the Year, they've been in business now for almost five years. Eric makes no secret of the fact that his business journey began as an NFL fan first and foremost. He rose through the NFL to become Director of International Marketing and Content Stratgey and also, Manager of International Content Strategy. His CV includes time with the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. But having...
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The Business of Sport - Niall Couper
The Business of Sport
Niall Couper is the Chief Executive Officer of Fair Game, a fast-growing collaboration of professional football clubs campaigning to improve football governance. With the support of more than forty world-renowned academics and a growing band of politicians, Fair Game, an ISC Season-Ticket holder, is committed to providing realistic and sustainable solutions to the challenges facing football. Having recently signed an alliance with the Union of European Football clubs, Fair Game's influence in football globally is growing and Niall Couper, a key player in the re-birth of AFC Wimbledon, is...
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The Business of Sport - Gabby Vidal Castillo
The Business of Sport
Gabby is the Senior Strategic Partner Manager for International Sports Convention Season Ticket holder, Greenfly, a digital platform seeking to maximise fan engagement opportunities for sports, clubs and leagues globally. Greenfly enables organisations to capture, distribute and organise content. They have become established as part of the short-form content infrastructure. Gabby previously spent four years working for Meta in a Partnerships role and had a brief spell as New Media Partnerships Director for Copa 90. Gabby also includes Google among her previous employers and she has a...
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The Business of Sport - James Dobbs
The Business of Sport
James Dobbs is the Managing Director of Sports News TV (SNTV), the world's leading sports news video agency. Working with over 200 rights holders globally, SNTV produces and distributes exclusive content every day to more than 1200 broadcast, digital and social media companies. SNTV specialises in the production and distribution of branded content, as well as optimisation and monetisation of content across social media channels.
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The Business of Sport - Anzhela Fokina
The Business of Sport
Anzhela Fokina is the Chief Executive officer of the Kateryna Biloruska Foundation, a charitable organisation established in 2019 to promote Health and Wellbeing in Ukranian communities through Education and Sports Participation for everyone. Anzhela has over 15 years experience in the Charitable and Social sector, having graduated from the Donetsk Institute of Economics and Humanities, with a Masters Degree in International Economics and Relations. She previously worked for the agricultural giant Syngenta, running their Corporate Social Responsibility operation...
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The Business of Sport - Meghna Krishna and Ritu Bain
The Business of Sport
Magnifi is an "AI-Powered" Enterprise Product by VideoVerse that enables content owners & rights-holders to detect key moments automatically, which can be used in creating highlights and short-form videos in real time. With offices in the US, UK, Europe, Israel, and India, Magnifi works with enterprises across numerous industries, including OTT Platforms, Sports Broadcasters, Leagues, Sports Federations, E-gaming platforms, and Colleges. A driving force behind the company's success to date has been the working relationship of two Indian women who met at a job interview with another...
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The Business of Sport - Rajesh D'Souza
The Business of Sport
Rajesh D'Souza is the Global Head of Digital Media Company, The Data Sports Group, based in Berlin, Germany. With expertise in operations, strategic planning, and corporate and consumer management in the digital media and sports sectors, Rajesh previously spent over a decade with The Perform Group. A self-confessed fan of finding new ways to do things, Rajesh is a big supporter of start-ups and scaling up opportunities. As we found out, he is also a long-standing supporter of Liverpool Football Club. Rajesh on the business of DMC: "Our focus is primarily on different industries. We work...
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The Business of Sport - Jamie Dapaah
The Business of Sport
Jamie Dapaah is Fulham Football Club's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Co-ordinator. He joined the club in May 2020 in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, transitioning from a coaching background. Jamie requested to speak with someone at the Club about how he could help support the campaign against discrimination, racism and prejudice. He has since been instrumental in leading club initiatives and championing the on-going culture of equality and inclusion across all Fulham's business operations. A diversity and inclusion practitioner who seeks to create and...
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Her Business of Sport - Karen Webb Moss
The Business of Sport
Her Business of Sport podcast shines a spotlight on female sport business administrators who are changing the rules of the industry by carving new pathways for women in the field. Each episode interviews a woman in the sports industry about their career journey, experiences working in the field, and advice they give to future generations. Episode 19 features Karen Webb Moss - Chair of British Swimming and Executive Chair of More than Equal In this episode, we discuss Karen’s journey within the sports industry, overcoming both career and personal battles, the importance of female...
info_outlineCapture is a Digital Asset Management platform, dealing with visual media, predominantly photography and video assets. Everybody knows that you can store so much of your life on your phones these days, but they do that on an industrial scale. It's a slightly different world. The audience is more complex, they are dealing with rights, especially in sport and they deal with things like permissions, because you may not want everyone to have access to the same material. It's about organising and managing your content, so it is useable.
Peter on industry expansion: "Capture has been around for 25 years and we pre-date the industry term of Digital Asset Management (DAM). But over the years, you have really seen the sports industry start to realise the value of "non-live" content, the stuff that sits outside of their production eco-systems and that has become a real focus for us. Whilst sport is very mature in some areas, in terms of archive content, it is right at the start of the maturity model. There is lots of incredible content, that rights holders and clubs have, that is just scattered around. It is often our first question to clients...where is your content? Do you know where it is...and if you did know, what would you want to do with it? That's the bit you can drive value from, if you can find it"
Peter on Customer need: "We know the live event is the primary focus. But once that match has happened, where does that content go? The answer tends to be that nobody is sure. It is sitting with a production company or it's on Dropbox, Flickr, or the Social Media Manager's laptop. But it's not managed and if you don't know what you have or where it is, you can't generate value from it. The requirement for archive content is generally driven by context. Something has happened for somebody to be interested in that content, like the Welcome to Wrexham documentary for example."
Peter on protecting history: "It is sad to say that we have come across instances where a whole period of history has been lost because it was sitting on somebody's laptop. That heritage and history is a key connector for their fanbase or any follower of the sport."