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On the Sports Loft Podcast, we talk to the innovators shaping the future of the sports industry. Our guests include tech pioneers building groundbreaking companies, leading executives from the world’s biggest teams and leagues, and investors driving advancements in sports, media and entertainment.
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Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Our host Yanni Andreopoulos talks to the CEO of PumpJack Dataworks, Nick Goggans. They discuss the founding of the company, why data is valuable for sports teams and how they are helping the industry to glean more value from it. They chat through how measurement and marketing are merging and how sports teams could become subscription businesses, meaning that the value of the data they own could become a vital part of the balance sheet.
Friday Aug 21, 2020
Friday Aug 21, 2020
Yanni Andreopoulos from Sports Loft chats to Slate's cofounder and COO Eric Starc for our member series. They discuss the company's founding, about Eric's experience at NFL and about the growing role social media plays in connecting sports teams with their fans. They debate how covid has increased social media's importance for teams, who found they had no other touchpoint with fans during lockdown. There's a look to the future and how social media can be monetised by teams, as long as they focus on authentic content.
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Yanni Andreopoulos from Sports Loft chats to Sports Loft member Satisfi Labs' CEO Donny White and the KNVB's captain of knowledge development and innovation, Giel Kirkels, about the future of the fan experience. They talk about the impact of covid, how fans will experience sports as they resume and look ahead to the future. We also hear from our founder Charlie Greenwood about working with Satisfi Labs to enhance the fan experience.
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Drew Barrand from Sports Loft and Prophet's co-founders Dean Sisun and Jake Benzaquen talk about what the secondary betting marketplace does, how the company has grown since inception and how they addressed the challenges of no sports during covid.
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Drew Barrand from Sports Loft and Andrew Hall, CEO of Formalytics talk about how the company came to solving the problem of knowing whether you are getting better at football or not. Using AI, a phone and their app, you can do that. They chatted about how the company is funded and the challenges of gaining new funding in a covid hit economy.
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Drew Barrand from Sports Loft talks to Ben Reynolds, CEO and co-founder of Spalk. They chat about how the company was formed by friends on a sofa watching sport, what the company does to support broadcasting and commentary and about how covid accelerated growth.
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Nicolas Miranda from Sports Loft and Catapult Sports talks to Tal Brown from Zone7. They discuss how Zone7's algorithms help their clients, such as La Liga's Getafe, protect their athletes from injury. They talk through the challenges for elite sports teams in returning to action following the covid shutdown.
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Yanni Andreopolous from Sports Loft chats to Satisfi Labs CEO and President Donny White. They discuss what thew company does, how it was founded and how they use AI to fuel search in sports venues. They also discuss the impact of covid on a business based around live events and how Satisfi responded to this.
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Drew Barrand from Sports Loft chatted to Nick Pinks of Covatic about how the company was formed, how covid has changed peoples' media consumption habits and how their product can help broadcasters create personalised content. They also discuss how covid challenged their business.
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Michael Broughton from Sports Loft talks to Daniel Kirschner from Greenfly about how many of the world's leading sports teams are using the service to engage fans and athletes. They discuss the impact of covid on the business, when live sport stopped, content creation saw a huge spike. Finally, they chat about how the company was formed.