Sports
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One Championship: Unpacking the Promotion’s Global Growth Strategy
Sep 2020
One Championship’s unique positioning continues to attract new fans and sponsors. On its current trajectory, is the MMA promotion a threat to the long-standing hegemony of the UFC?...
Strategy Briefing
Professional Golf: Traditional and Emerging Sponsorship Opportunities
Aug 2020
Like all major professional sports properties, golf organisations and tours are facing unprecedented challenges brought about by the Coronavirus. Re-energising the sport and unlocking a younger fanbase will accelerate a return to commercial success ...
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The Club Index 2020: Commercial Attractiveness and Resilience to Coronavirus
Aug 2020
Understanding the commercial opportunities that professional sports clubs offer can be challenging. The Club Index was developed as a means to benchmark top-flight domestic clubs across key metrics, ensuring that potential and existing partners can ...
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Rebuilding Confidence Among Sports Fans After Coronavirus
Jul 2020
The sports industry faces a long road to recovery. Of the issues facing the industry, the most notable is how to ensure fan safety and ensure the successful return of live events. This report looks at various strategies across sports, and the role ...
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The League Index 2020: Commercial Attractiveness and Resilience to Coronavirus
Jul 2020
Understanding the commercial opportunities that professional sports leagues and constituent teams offer can be challenging. The League Index was developed as a means to benchmark top flight domestic leagues across key metrics, ensuring that potential...
Strategy Briefing
The New Normal: Sports After Coronavirus
Jun 2020
Sports industry has been wholly disrupted by Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. All major events have been affected, and regulatory bodies had postponed or cancelled events and competitions around the world. The disruption has left properties and ...
Strategy Briefing
Sportswear in Asia Pacific
Mar 2020
Sportswear in Asia Pacific is prospected to see promising growth, fuelled by China’s robust growth. Health awareness and rise of international and local brands open more opportunity to the sportswear industry. Brands are carrying out localised ...
Strategy Briefing
The New Game in Town: How e-sports is Poised to Shake up the Sports Industry
Feb 2020
E-sports continues to solidify itself as a potential competitor to, and a definite opportunity for, traditional professional sports properties. As the sector continues to grow its live events offering to complement its already strong digital ...
Strategy Briefing
League Profile: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2019
Jan 2020
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a leading football/soccer competition in North America. The briefing analyses MLS performance across Matchday, Social Media and Commercial Partners datasets, drawing insights on league viability, growth and business ...
Strategy Briefing
League Profile: Serie A 2019
Dec 2019
Serie A is one of the leading football competitions globally. The briefing analyses Serie A performance across Matchday, Social Media, and Commercial Partners datasets, drawing insights on league viability, growth and business exposure. It also ...
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Linking Sports to Entertainment: Major Club and League Activations as a Growth Driver
Dec 2019
To grow their global fanbases sports properties are increasingly tapping into audiences beyond typical sports fans and by doing so blurring the lines between sports and entertainment. This report discusses key strategies in drawing consumers to ...
Strategy Briefing
All To Play For: Harnessing the Commercial Potential of Women’s Football
Dec 2019
This report analyses the current state of play for women’s league football, and how recent fan interest and brand investment was catalysed by international flagship events such as the FIFA 2019 Women’s World Cup. This report also looks at the role ...
Strategy Briefing
League Profile: Bundesliga 2019
Nov 2019
Bundesliga is one of the leading football/soccer competition globally. The briefing analyses Bundesliga performance across Matchday, Social Media and Commercial Partners datasets, drawing insights on league viability, growth and business exposure. It...
Strategy Briefing
Professional Sports in Western Europe: League Performance and Global Commercial Opportunities
Nov 2019
This briefing analyses the commercial opportunities that exist across sports properties in North America, through a proprietary methodology and four case studies. The region is home to some of the world’s top leagues and many famous teams from ...
Strategy Briefing
League Profile: Premier League 2019
Nov 2019
The Premier League (PL) is one of the leading football/soccer competitions globally. The briefing analyses PL performance across Matchday, Social Media and Commercial Partnership datasets, drawing insights on league viability, growth and business ...
Strategy Briefing
League Profile: National Football League (NFL) 2019
Oct 2019
The National Football League (NFL) is the leading American football competition globally. This briefing analyses the NFL’s performance across Matchday, Social Media and Commercial Partners datasets, providing insights on league viability, growth and ...
Strategy Briefing
Can Grime Music Restore the Premier League’s Identity?
Sep 2019
This report analyses the Football Premier League’s audience overlap in the UK with the historically niche, but ever growing grime music genre, assessing partnerships and activities with prominent artists. Can the grime movement recapture the support ...
Strategy Briefing
Commercial Partners and Opportunities for Top 10 Teams From The Club Index 2019
Aug 2019
When it comes to sponsoring, context is of great importance. Both for sport properties and companies involved in the sponsoring game, several aspects must be considered in a holistic way: the fanbase, the competitive performance, and the ...
Strategy Briefing
Megatrends, Sponsorships and Activation Strategies in Sports
Aug 2019
Megatrends are re-shaping how we think about consumerism globally. This report looks at how some of these trends will influence the professional sports industry, specifically focusing on sponsorship and activation strategies in a world of evolving ...
Strategy Briefing
The League Index 2019: Benchmarking for Partners and Investors
Aug 2019
Understanding the commercial opportunities that professional sports leagues and constituent teams offer can be challenging. The Global League Attractiveness Index was developed as a means to benchmark top flight domestic leagues across key metrics, ...
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