Spotify for Sport anyone? This is from something Jimmy Iovine said on a podcast. Since the labels lost control of the formats, tech companies commoditised the product. Look at the video streaming wars. Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus are in a bloodbath. But they have a distinct weapon: Differentiation. If
'This is a bad idea. It is a very, very, very bad idea'. Substack just did a deal with Polymarket. From that link to Brian Moritz: Imagine for a second that instead of Polymarket, this was FanDuel announcing an exclusive partnership with Substack. Or Draft Kings. What would
Today's podcast is about how product innovation has changed cricket's audience and the problems that has created for a game wedded to a 20th century economic model. 'You watching this?' There’s been an unusual feel to the current ICC T20 World Cup in
1. The tyranny of targets - how we've allowed quantifiable metrics to seep in to every aspect of our life, and the consequences of that. Source: The Score by C Thi Nguyen. Builds on Charles Goodhart of 'Goodhart rule' fame, that suggests metrics become corrupted when '
Almost a good headline. The IOC boss throws her comms team under the bus. Tough day for James Pearce, the former BBC reporter who now heads up Olympic PR. @dwnews IOC President Kirsty Coventry has lashed out at her PR team during a press conference about not being properly informed
You'll have seen the Anthropic Super Bowl ad. I did a quick data scrape of this FT article. Main bits: 'I would just disclose, as a personal bias, that I hate ads, they would be like a last resort for us as a business model. Advertising had