The SportBusiness Podcast

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...

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 week, Frank Dunne talks to Ben Cronin about the new sponsorship deals between basketball’s Euroleague and Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism, for the brands Etihad Airways and Experience Abu Dhabi. Ben Cronin provides a...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.  This week, Martin Ross, Jonathan Rest and Joseph Perry join for a special Sportel round-up edition where we bring you the latest nuggets of news and intel we uncovered from the 2025 convention in Monaco. Topics from the shop floor include: Talking points about the UC3 / Relevent F...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Ben Cronin and Faaez Samadi kick off with a look at some of the key deals featured in SportBusiness’ two-part extended data snapshot of this season’s Premier League team sponsorship portfolios. We also provide an overview of our Global Media Report 2025 - hot off the press, w...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Martin Rest and Frank Dunne bring their usual incisive analysis – this time on the subject of DAZN’s 2024 accounts. We crunch the numbers and gaze into the future for the would-be ‘Spotify of sport’. Martin then turns his eye to finances and commercial momentum swings in golf...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.   This week, Ben Cronin and Jonathan Rest start the ball rolling with a dive into tourism board sponsorship – and soft politics – in sport as Visit Rwanda crosses the Atlantic for the first time to seal deals with the NBA’s Clippers and the NFL’s Rams.   Matthew Glendinning jo...

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 week, Frank Dunne, Imran Yusuf and Maria Kholodova look at the recent Disney+ deal for the rights to the Uefa Women’s Champions League and ask what it means for the relative strategies of the media company and the governing body, and look at whether the f...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.   This week, sponsorship experts Matthew Glendinning and Ben Cronin join the pod to talk about beer – and specifically how Guinness’ central sponsorship of the Premier League has changed market dynamics. Martin Ross and Jonathan Rest then discuss the biggest-ever change in skiing m...

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 the podcast to bring frontline industry insight and heavyweight interviews from the IMG x RedBird Summit 2025 at Soho Farmhouse in the Cotswolds to unpack the following: In the wake of the Paramount’s UFC rights swoop and the impending Zuffa...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, as Amazon courts controversy with free streaming in Australia of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, we ask: is streaming the new free-to-air TV – and is listed events legislation being updated accordingly? Matthew Glendinning joins to discuss the latest WSL sponsorship trends...

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 discuss a Mexican standoff between Fox Corporation and Fox Sports Mexico over a trademark infringement lawsuit, with restraining orders, dawn raids and unpaid rights fees – and just where do Mexicans fans watch the Premier League? Faaez...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.    This week, Matthew Williams and Jonathan Rest join the podcast to discuss the Indian government’s ban of all money-based online games – including pay-to-play fantasy games like Dream 11 – and how that will impact not just the BCCI and the IPL but other leagues and sports in...