Sports Geek - A look into the world of Sports Marketing, Sports Business and Digital Marketing

Sean Callanan chats with National Sports Forum President Ron Seaver about breaking into the sports industry and the history of National Sports Forum. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/ron-seaver-nsf/

Sean Callanan looks back at a big year at Sports Geek at some of the highlights and key projects from 2018. Learn what happens at Sports Geek when the microphone is off. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/looking-back-at-2018-at-sports-geek

Jay Riola lives and breathes data. In his role at Orlando Magic he is always looking for ways on how data can help make better decisions for ticketing returns as well as improve the fan experience so they come back for more. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/jay-riola-orlando-magic/

Sean Callanan chats with Sport Australia CEO Kate Palmer about her long career in Netball and how Sport Australia is helping Australians be more active and continue high levels of success on world stage. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/kate-palmer-sport-australia

Sean Callanan chats with Visit Victoria's Damien de Bohun on bringing major sports and arts events to Victoria. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/damien-de-bohun-visit-victoria/

Sean Callanan chats with Andrew Walton from MPower MSL about getting into the esports space with a new OPL team. Sean also answers the esports questions from Sports Geek friends and followers. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/sports-geek-opl-story/

Sean Callanan chats with Nick Ryan from Nissan Motorsport on his many years in the sport, connecting with motorsport fans and how esports is both a fan development and driver development avenue Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/nick-ryan-nissan-motorsport/

Sean Callanan chats with ESL's Nick Vanzetti at PAX about his career in esports and especially building out events for esports fans live including IEM and Melbourne Esports Open. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/nick-vanzetti-esl/

Sean Callanan shares his insights from over 5 years in podcasting as well as latest trends from podcasting conferences Podcast Movement and Oz Pod. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/sean-callanan-podcasting-insights/

Andi Perelman is fascinated by fans, what they want, why they want it and what they do online. It helps drive the tone, content and engagement for Pittsburgh Penguins online. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/andi-perelman-pittsburgh-penguins/

Baden Stephenson CEO of Melbourne Rebels chats about his sports business career spanning coaching and administration as well as guiding the Melbourne Rebels through a period of uncertainty in 2017 to a bright future ahead embracing grass roots support. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/baden-stephenson-melbourne-rebels/

Craig Neeb chat about his dual role in the International Speedway Corporation and NASCAR and how technology changed the motor racing sports landscape. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/craig-neeb-nascar/

Steve DeLay from TheUltimateToolkit.com chats with Sean Callanan about his experience in sales & ticketing and how to fill every seat in the stadium. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/steve-delay-the-ultimate-toolkit/

Matt Scully discusses his sports startup story with Sports Where I Am that solves the problems sports tourists face when planning trips to and around their favourite sports team and events. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/matt-scully-sportswhereiam/

Ben Reynolds' Spalk platform synchronises live sports streams with alternate commentary from fans, influencers and athletes. Sean caught up with Ben in NYC to discuss his startup story. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/ben-reynolds-spalk/

Tinus Le Roux knows fans via Fancam he knows when they attend and how often they attend. On this podcast Sean & Tinus discuss the differences of computer vision and facial recognition and why it is important to sports business. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/tinus-leroux-fancam/

Sean catches up with NBA 2K League's Brendan Donohue at the NBA headquarters in New York to discuss season one and the impact of esports on NBA teams, fans and sponsors. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/brendan-donohue-nba-2kleague/

Sean catches up with Glenn Lovett at the Nielsen Sports headquarters in the financial district of New York to discuss global trends in digital and broadcasting. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/glenn-lovett-nielsen-sports/

A quick update from Dallas Texas before kicking off his Sports Geek Trip, find out where Sean will be and how you can meet up with him. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/sports-geek-trip-update/

Dave Harris chats with Sean Callanan to discuss his journey into esports from investing in Dire Wolves to setting up in new esports high performance centre. Dave discusses how high performance has been the key to success and how it can be replicated to lift the standard of play in Australia and around the world. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/dave-harris-dire-wolves

Matthew Pavlich is a Fremantle Dockers champion on this podcast you'll find out how footy has changed and how he is finding life after footy including helping sports stars find more speaking opportunities with Pickstar platform. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with Ryan Kaveney Chief Fan and Commercial Officer for the GWS Giants. Ryan discusses the opportunities to develop a new fan base in Western Sydney for fans while building passion for Giants members along for the ride. Full show notes

Sean chats with Bill Schlough CIO for San Francisco Giants in the Giants dugout at AT&T Park during the recent #SportsGeekTrip. Sean and Bill chats about ballpark technology, Giants culture and his role at San Jose Giants. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with Cayle Drabinsky Director of Business Operations and Co-Director of Bucks Gaming. Sean and Cayle chat about NBA 2K League Season 1, esports and integrating Bucks Gaming into the Milwaukee Bucks business. - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/cayle-drabinsky-bucks-gaming/

On this week's episode, Sean heads off to Levi's Stadium in San Francisco to chat with Al Guido, President of San Francisco 49ers and CEO of Elevate Sports Ventures. Sean and Al chats about the 49ers' move to the new stadium, rolling out technology and his new business venture. Show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with Anthony Alsop, General Manager for Communications at Brisbane Lions. Sean chats with Anthony about how the Lions push the envelope to rise above the digital chatter and why knowing your fans and your market is so important. Show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with Stacy McGranor, Email & CRM Marketing Manager for the San Jose Sharks. Stacy chats with Sean about gearing up for a busy offseason, those in sports business know that is where the hard work begins. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with Kurt Brutton, Marketing and Brand executive for the Brisbane Broncos. Sean and Kurt discuss how the Broncos sponsorship team works across the business to integration content, marketing and sponsorship efforts. Full show notes

One thing content creators dread is going back to the beginning and looking or in the case of podcasters listening to their first episodes. Sports Geek (the podcast version at least) was first published on May 9 2013 back then the podcast stitched together regular my radio spots with Francis Leach on ABC Grandstand and Daniel Harford on 1116SEN. Over time the podcast evolved from using the radio spots to in person or Skype interviews with guests to allow for more depth than short radio segments allow. After 80 episodes I relinquished the audio editing reins to the very capable James Ede who now edits all podcasts. Megan Vila Pouca helped assist booking and scheduling of guests as well as preparing show notes each week. Joli Gorospe has been invaluable in the promotion and amplification of the podcast and all related content making sure new and regular listeners know who is one each week. This episode looks back at that #1 episode with guest James Royer then at the Tampa Bay Lightning and looks into how to handle fan feedback on social (still a hot topic 5 years on). For those of you who have listened from the start, thank you. If you have just found the podcast, welcome aboard.

On this week's episode, Sean dives in the C2 Melbourne Ball Pool to chat with Western Bulldogs AFLW team stars Bonnie Toogood and Brooke Lochland. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with Zarah Al-Kudcy, Commercial Partnerships at Formula 1. Sean and Zarah chat about her career in sports working in Athletics, Rugby, Cricket and how the F1 sponsors are integrating digital and continue to push the envelope with event activations. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with David Fowler, former FIFA Head of Strategy & Intelligence and now Marketing Director at mycujoo. Mycujoo is a football streaming program targeted at secondary leagues, women's football, youth, futsal, and amateur football. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with Tanya Gallina, General Manager Consumer Services and Tasmania of the Hawthorn Football Club. Tanya knows membership having worked at multiple clubs in Melbourne. Now at Hawthorn she is constantly looking for ways to better connect with fans and deliver them an experience to deepen their ties to the Hawks. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean catches up with Jack Elkins, Director of Innovation at Orlando Magic. Jack returns to the podcast to chat with Sean about innovation and how the Orlando Magic innovate without relying on big budgets. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean catches up with Paul Rogers, Head of Digital and Social Media at AS Roma. Sean and Paul met up at the recent Business of Sport Summit and chat about the origins of Liverpool digital and his strategy pivot at AS Roma. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with returning guest and good friend, Jesper Nyholm of 7Peaks and Sports One Danmark about high performance, health and technology. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with David Campbell and Peter Mineo from the Victorian Racing Club about the race that stops a nation, the Melbourne Cup. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats with Cameron Schwab, Founder and CEO of designCEO. Sean and Cameron discuss his 25 years within AFL clubs as CEO and what he has learned about leadership, trust and culture that he applies at his new business designCEO. Full show notes

On this week's double header episode, Sean chats with Johannes Wohlert, Marketing Manager from Swedish Basketball Federation about fan passion and where he sources marketing inspriation. Sean also catches up with Brian Watkins, Co-Founder of Rep the Squad. Sean chats with Brian about how Rep the Squad's offer will be a merchandise game changer. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats to Fiona Green, Director and Co-Founder of Winners. Fiona is Sean's "go to" person for all things data and CRM person and a returning guest of the podcast. Sean and Fiona discuss the new general data protection regulations (GDPR) that come into effect this year in the EU. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats to the Australian National Basketball League's CEO, Jeremy Loeliger. As part of the CEO Series, Sean and Jeremy chat about rebuilding the NBL and building ties with the NBA. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats to good friend, author & futurist Steve Sammartino about technology trends that will affect the sports world. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats to Josh Grunberg, Head of Community Development and Growth from Whistle Sports. Sean and Josh chat about how the world's best sports videos are ending up in your feed. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats to Pete Lock, Digital Media Manager from Queensland Cricket and Brisbane Heat. Pete and Sean discuss engaging fans in the Big Bash League and how VR and AR are helping the Heat engage and attract a younger audience. Full show notes

The news that Facebook is changing the Facebook News Feed algorithm could (and most likely) have a big impact on digital publishers in 2018. Full show notes

On this week's episode, Sean chats to Tim Kelsey, Director of Champion Data. Sean and Tim chat about stats, footy & the growth of datatainment. Full show notes

Sean chats to Wayne Schwass, former AFL footballer and now CEO and Founder of Puka Up. Having battled silently with his own mental health for much of his sporting career, Wayne is now a dedicated mental health advocate, committed to raising awareness about mental health, emotional wellbeing and suicide prevention. Full show notes

On this week's episode Sean goes "back to the future" and catches up with James Royer, the very first guest of Sports Geek back in 2013. Now Director of Digital Media & Strategy for Kansas City Chiefs, Sean and James discuss his role along with social, AR and OTT the Chiefs way. Full show notes

On this week's episode Sean catches up with Bo Westover, Director of Marketing from Catapult Sports. Sean and Bo chat about the Catapult story and how they measure high performance through wearable technology. Full show notes