Tag "podcast"

Interview: James Grigg, International Operations at Bleacher Report

Dan caught up with Director of International Operations at Bleacher Report and talked about his startup career at Fanatix, the importance of Snapchat to BR’s plans and the challenges for growing the brand in the UK.

Interview: Sports Technology Awards founder Rebecca Hopkins

New podcast with Rebecca Hopkins, the founder of The Sports Technology Awards and ENS PR Ltd

Interview: James Kirkham, Head of Copa90

Dan McLaren chat’s to James Kirkham, the man charged with taking Copa90, the worlds biggest online football channel (not just YouTube anymore), to the next level.

Five things we learned from the Digital Sport Summit

The #DSSummit16 at Villa Park in Birmingham was a roaring success – an entire day of ideas from some of the best and brightest in the digital sport industry in a

Interview: Alex Trickett, Global Sports Chair & Head of UK Sport at Twitter

Dan McLaren sat down with Twitter’s Alex Trickett to discuss his rise from aspiring journalist to Head of UK Sport via social media lead at BBC Sport. #Podcast

PODCAST: BBC Sport’s Head of Digital & Radio, Ben Gallop, on 18 years at BBC, Rio 2016 + more

1-2-1 interview with BBC Sport’s Ben Gallop where Dan talked to him about Rio 2016, his 18 years at the broadcaster, opportunities for ‘minority’ sports with digital and what’s next for the BBC.

PODCAST: Squawka’s Sanjit Atwal on the high’s and low’s of his entrepreneurial journey and what’s next for Squawka

Sanjit co-founded Squawka in 2011, with it being released to the public in time for the European Championships in 2012. Since then the business has won multiple awards and become one of the leading football publishers in the UK.

Podcast #6: Jon Burkhart talks newsjacking, tapping into sports fan’s passion and BALLSY content

Jon Burkhart is a speaker, author, content creator and all round bundle of energy that you may have seen at SXSW (6 years in a row), SEAT Las Vegas/London or

PODCAST #3: James Campbell on working at Williams & Mercedes, starting his own agency and an exciting future for F1

James Campbell is former Digital Manager at Formula 1 heavyweights Williams and Mercedes. He joined the German giants operation just as Toto Wolff, Lewis Hamilton and Niko Rosberg got together to start dominating the sport.

PODCAST #2: Threepipe’s Farhad Koodoruth on using digital to help sell tickets, the role of agencies and Twitter’s future

In this week’s show I explore in-depth how sports should be utilising data to help in areas such as ticket sales. Also we touch on the role of agencies in the future, given the trend for teams and leagues to do more and more in house. And finally his thoughts on my top 3 topics including VR, personalisation and the future of Twitter.