The SportBusiness Podcast

This week on The SportBusiness Podcast , we shake up the format as co-hosts Martin Ross and Jonathan Rest bring you the latest insights from the cutting edge of the industry. THE NEWSROOM : The launch of the $300m Premier Jumping League – its business model, backstory and disruption in showjumping. And the latest on investment in the NFL’s flag football league and its commercialisation....

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.    This week, we look at the decision to snub riches elsewhere and keep snooker’s World Championships at The Crucible and what the deal means for the sport. Jonathan Rest is back from Toronto, where he spoke to industry leaders about Rogers and it...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.  This week, Matthew Williams and Faaez Samadi join Catherine Davies to discuss the latest sponsorship trends in the Indian Premier League as the curtain rises on the latest iteration. Jonathan Rest looks at why IPL franchises...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.    This week, Martin Ross and Joseph Perry join Catherine Davies to discuss the implications of the Premier League’s D2C launch in Singapore. Why now, what next and how do other major European leagues compare in the streaming space? The...

This month Inside the Deal tackles one of the biggest deals in the industry for years: the Paramount Skydance deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.   The deal brings together two giants of the global media industry.   The podcast looks at the merger through a very specific lens: what it means for the sports media rights in Eu...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.  This week, we pay tribute to a highly-respected and much-loved industry colleague, Matt Cutler, who passed away late last month after a brave battle with cancer. Ben Cronin and Matthew Williams join to discuss the latest new deals and notable trends in Fo...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Matthew Glendinning joins Catherine Davies to hone in on Chelsea’s third front-of-shirt sponsorship deal in as many years and why its leading shirt asset has been so hard to shift. Then Martin Ross looks at LaLiga and Serie A international media rights sales as lea...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.    This week, Martin Ross joins Catherine Davies to discuss Iris’ grab of in-flight and in-ship rights to the Olympics and what it means for a sector long dominated by IMG’s Sport 24 channels but now being disrupted by new tech. Ma...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.  This week, Martin Ross and Jonathan Rest join Catherine Davies to break down the latest developments, departures and disclosures at Mediapro, the Spain-based global sports media rights and production agency. Ben Cronin p...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.    This week, Martin Ross and Jonathan Rest join Catherine Davies to discuss Milan-Cortina 2026 - the TOP sponsor drop-off, media rights sales, OBS broadcast tech and the winter Olympics future in 2030 and beyond. Ben Cronin and Joseph...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.  This week, Matthew Glendinning joins Catherine Davies to talk about the emergence of the predictive market sector as a potential game changer in sports sponsorship. Matthew Williams calls in from Mumbai to report on the latest trends in the Indian sponsor...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.    This week, Frank Dunne joins Catherine Davies to talk about the crisis engulfing Belgian football as the Pro League’s contract dispute with DAZN leaves all parties in a Catch-22 situation. Martin Ross reveals possible tweaks to European rugby’s Cham...

Why is Visit Rwanda spending over $20m per year sponsoring two LA-based sports franchises? How do the recent deals with the NBA's Clippers and the NFL’s Rams fit into the country’s wider sports sponsorship strategy? Why did the Premier League’s Arsenal choose not to renew its deal with Visit Rwanda? Why are three central African countries – Rwanda, the Democratic Repu...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. Maria Kholodova and Martin Ross join Catherine Davies to serve up an Australian Open commercial overview and the innovations driving wider media value for the first grand slam of the year. Jonathan Rest and Catherine then delve into the first-ever media and sponsorship rights...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.   Martin Ross joins Catherine Davies to scrutinise the Enhanced Games’ commercial model with still no sponsors or broadcasters announced, but the sale to consumers of ‘supervised medication’ and supplements expected to outstrip revenue from both. The betting sponsorship market...

Welcome to Inside the Deal, the podcast which gets under the hood of the most interesting deals taking place in the global sports industry. In 2018, the Infront agency and streamer DAZN paid €500m for the rights to European handball from 2020 to 2030. It was a deal set to transform the financial health of handball for a decade.   But in 2023, DAZN unexpectedly stepped out. Then, in Decem...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.  This week, Martin Ross and show host Catherne Davies chew the fat over the news highlights of an eventful and often tumultuous year. Olympic esports, Uefa rights sales, a new broadcast player in Saudi Arabia, Two Circles, a football league’s D2C quandary and media d...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Jonathan Rest joins the podcast to shed light on the awarding of the media rights in Latin America to the Conmebol club competitions:  who the winners – and losers – are, the growing profile of YouTube in Brazil and what surprised him most about the auction.  N...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Gavin Hamilton makes his podcast debut with sharp insights into Real Madrid’s proposal to sell off an ownership stake to external investors and what such a sale could earn. Duncan Griffiths Nakanishi presents the 2025 edition of  The Long Game ,&...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Martin Ross and Jonathan Rest reflect on the rush of Uefa club competitions media rights deals in Europe’s ‘big five’ markets and look at who’s in, who’s not and what’s next. Ben Cronin also weighs in with insights into UC3’s new sponsorship...

Welcome to Inside the Deal, the podcast which gets under the hood of the most interesting deals taking place in the global sports industry. This month, we reveal the massive fee that the global streamer was prepared to pay to secure the rights in the US to the 2027 and 2031 editions of Fifa’s Women’s World Cup. Frank Dunne talks to Maria Kholodova about Netflix’s bumper deal, what the deal reveals...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.  This week, Jonathan Rest kicks off the podcast with key insights into how Apple TV will broadcast MLS in what remains of its deal, plus rejigged fees and match calendar, the next tender and winter weather. Faaez Samadi brings fresh insight into sponsorship in tennis with an overvi...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.  This week, Matthew Glendinning and Martin Ross join to discuss the importance of the DP World Tour’s title sponsorship renewal, alongside its new deal with AWS, plus Dubai’s links to the Tour. Joseph Perry brings back fresh insight into the NFL’s Global Markets Program from Berlin...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Ben Cronin and Jonathan Rest analyse Heineken’s sponsorship wins and losses as the Dutch brewer renews with Formula 1 and faces the end of its decades-long Uefa Champions League partnership. Martin Ross joins Jon to parse the third-quarter financial results of TKO, parent com...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Frank Dunne joins the podcast to discuss key points from SportBusiness’ latest in-depth industry report,  Platform Wars: The Third Era of Private Equity Investment in Sport , which tackles the question: Is sport delivering the returns that investors expect? Matthew Willi...