The premise is wrong. It’s not a football club.

by roger mitchell | Jun 26, 2019

The day started with a call from one of these sophisticated new investors in sport. A podcast listener. “I’m getting fed up wasting a lot of time trying to win arguments over the need for fresh thinking in football. Give me half a page of the best arguments for...

The missing slide in the startup nation’s deck

by roger mitchell | Jun 19, 2019

The old lady beside me on the touring bus was a Jew from the USA. She was right out of Rhoda, or one of those impersonations Billy Crystal does. Fantastic and so entertaining. As we toured the Holy Land, she was so full of energy and stories that helped enormously to...

Sports Darwin Moment

by roger mitchell | May 3, 2019

One of the huge challenges for any content creator is the tsunami of available “copy” out there for free. Good content. Gratis. It’s bloody hard to compete with “free” Incidentally, this exactly was the dilemma facing my splendid podcast co-host, Grant Williams, in...

Placing sports bets in Vegas

by roger mitchell | Apr 23, 2019

On what is one to reflect upon during an 11 hour flight to NAB in Vegas? The future, I’d say. The last 30 years in music, sport has been utterly dictated by tech disruption. Whether it’s from the rights holder perspective, the broadcaster, sponsor, publisher,...

Who is really rocking the music biz today?

by sàndor von mallasz | Apr 2, 2019

The real problem of modern record companies nowadays is not what we often hear about: the lack of amazing artists, of big numbers, of big margins… The real problem is the lack of great, visionary pioneers and leaders.   When I started in this business, everybody...