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Felicity Shankar: why every major event wants a hospitality house

Aug 20, 202648 min

Applying US know-how; empty seats; and who’s up for a Fifa election campaign?

Aug 13, 202636 min

Carlos Ezpeleta and Guenther Steiner: How MotoGP is handling its new American investors

Aug 10, 202630 min

What can and can’t be sold? And other questions Gianni Infantino might be asking himself

Aug 6, 202641 min

Belinda Moore: The Growth Director at the Hundred on a new dawn for short form cricket

Aug 5, 202646 min

Andy Burnham and the big UK sports jobs; what next for the Commonwealth Games?

Jul 23, 202640 min

Charlie Buck: the Lyvera CEO on the value of 'roaming' and other sports hospitality trends

Jul 22, 202647 min

New York, Birkdale and everywhere in between: where sports industry bigwigs are spending the weekend

Jul 15, 202640 min

Bruin Capital's George Pyne - how to raise money, then spend it, build businesses up, then exit with grace

Jul 14, 202649 min

The Cannes Debate: how did PSG crack the cultural crossover code?

Jul 10, 202641 min

Rights and wrongs: How Sky and ITV might shake-up sports media; Fifa's World Cup shenanigans

Jul 9, 202636 min

Tony Godsick: Tennis turbulence, finding a place for the Laver Cup and the business of Roger Federer

Jul 6, 202643 min

NBA Europe - the reality behind the franchise sales; plus under-the-radar moves from FIFA and the EFC

Jul 3, 202638 min

Overlooked and underinvested - Matta's Marina Logacheva on the missed opportunity in disability sport

Jul 1, 202645 min

Royal Ascot and Wimbledon: Dressing up for Britain’s summer season of sport

Jun 26, 202646 min

The Cannes Debate: Why sport is becoming marketing’s most powerful platform

Jun 25, 202636 min

The Cannes Debate: what is sport's place at the 'Festival of Creativity'?

Jun 18, 202647 min

Normalising hydration breaks; how F1 finessed its hosting model

Jun 16, 202641 min

Louise Young - F1's Chief Race Promotion Officer on the delicate dance of supply and demand on the series' global calendar

Jun 15, 202642 min

The World Cup lands at last: Opening week pointers, ongoing concerns and online dominance

Jun 11, 202629 min

Scroll Stoppers: World Cup Special

Jun 9, 202652 min

In praise of Josh Kroenke; Rethinking the pre-game concert model

Jun 2, 202638 min

Anurag Dahiya - the ICC CCO on growing reach and revenue in new and uncompetitive markets

Jun 1, 202628 min

Jennifer Mackesy and Julie Uhrman: the bold business case for 7-a-side women's football

May 28, 202634 min

Deciphering India’s major event plans; who will succeed Sally Bolton at Wimbledon?

May 21, 202636 min

Ross Hutchins - a new CEO for a new era at the International Tennis Federation

May 19, 202642 min

How many franchise-based series can sport handle? Should teams and athlete be writing newsletters?

May 15, 20260 min

The power of direct connection in audience monetisation: a Guardian Media Group case study with Chief Supporter Officer Liz Wynn

May 13, 202648 min

Cycling’s precarious business model untangled; and who wore what to the Met Gala (and why)

May 7, 202638 min

Tom Hill: the INEOS Grenadiers CCO on how he signed a €100m AI sponsorship

May 6, 202651 min

The sprint to make more of marathons; Turkey rejoins F1's crowded calendar

May 1, 202636 min

Back and forth with Table Tennis England CEO Sally Lockyer: World Championships, China dominance and the NGB commercial conundrum

Apr 29, 202634 min

LIV Golf’s legacy and future; and the women who should be running Premier League clubs

Apr 23, 202636 min

Mark Darbon: the R&A CEO navigating golf’s disrupted ecosystem

Apr 22, 202645 min

What do you get when you buy Mark Goldbridge?

Apr 15, 202629 min

Meet the other World Cup hosts: James Johnson on why Canada will be the tournament's legacy story; Club América's COO on Mexico's lively sports market

Apr 13, 202625 min

The contrarian outlook that makes the Masters so great

Apr 7, 202643 min

The new Knights of the Round Table - US sports ownership as honours system; and how to activate at the World Cup

Apr 2, 202633 min

Big brands at the big tournament: How Walmart, The Home Depot and Mondelēz are planning their World Cup summer

Apr 1, 202635 min

The IPL at another turning point as RCB is sold; engineering atmosphere at sports events; and celebrating the crowds at LIV

Mar 26, 202635 min

DJ Skee: Sport's least likely entrepreneur on discovering Kendrick Lamar, then selling snow to a Philadelphian

Mar 24, 202632 min

Is the US a good host? Do democracies and major events make good bedfellows? And why and how the NBA is set on expansion

Mar 19, 202629 min

Bay Area Host Committee CEO Zaileen Janmohamed on knowing when to follow your gut to make a public speaking impact

Mar 17, 202637 min

The glass of whisky that shaped an industry and other big ticket items from Leaders Meet: Innovation 2026

Mar 13, 202634 min

Champions League changes explained; why Relevent replaced Team; and how Zuffa is giving boxing its latest shake-up

Mar 5, 202637 min

Charlie Marshall and Guy-Laurent Epstein push UC3 into the limelight

Mar 3, 202644 min

How reliant is sport on its army of volunteers? And how to assess Gianni Infantino’s first 10 years at Fifa?

Feb 27, 202629 min

Parkrun CEO Elizabeth Duggan on the magic of the model underpinning the participation sensation

Feb 25, 202635 min

What would a tennis merger achieve? And what now for Wasserman?

Feb 19, 202635 min

Addressing critical needs: WTA Ventures CEO Marina Storti

Feb 18, 202623 min