27 August 2026
The Code-Share Era: Why Sport's Next Growth Market Is Someone Else's Audience
Bayern Munich and the NHL just signed a partnership with no disclosed money in it. That is exactly what makes it interesting.
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Analysis and perspective on sponsorship, strategy, M&A and the business of sport, written by the people doing the deals.
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Bayern Munich and the NHL just signed a partnership with no disclosed money in it. That is exactly what makes it interesting.
Read article →Talent is rarely the scarce resource in sport. The system capable of finding, developing and retaining it usually is.
Read article →Why a century of accumulated meaning is becoming football's scarcest commercial asset, and how one club is building that asset from scratch.
Read article →Why some fixtures carry a weight the league table cannot explain, and how sport turns that emotion into economic value.
Read article →A medal can inspire someone to try sport. It cannot make the local club affordable, open a school facility after hours, provide an inclusive coach or make someone return the following week.
Read article →AI can increasingly create the content around sport. What it cannot create is a result that counts. Josh Kushner's extraordinary summer, and a decade of franchise repricing, reveal where the real scarcity in sport is moving.
Read article →National sports strategies rarely fail because they lack ambition. They fail because ambition is not translated into priorities, ownership, measurable targets and consequences.
Read article →Elite sport's most underpriced commercial risk is not a bad broadcast deal or a failed expansion. It is the athlete.
Read article →Why the sponsorship question is no longer whether women's football is ready, but whether brands are. Who is paying, what they are buying, what the assets are actually worth, and where the gaps between price and value still sit.
Read article →Saudi Arabia has invested heavily in sport. Great Britain has built one of the world's most effective Olympic medal systems. India is developing a nationwide grassroots network. Yet each story reflects only part of the picture.
Read article →The most interesting thing about Revolut sponsoring Como 1907 is not that it happened. It is that it happened in this sequence: infrastructure first, customer acquisition second, shirt front third.
Read article →The debate consuming football this week is the wrong debate.
Read article →The most dangerous moment in elite sport sponsorship is not a poor result. It is the ninety seconds after the final whistle when a team stops performing and starts reacting, because that footage, unlike a scoreline,...
Read article →Investors have been buying athlete brands as if they were music catalogues. The Maradona war is the moment the market discovers they are not.
Read article →A $1 billion franchise bid sounds like a valuation story. It is actually a sovereignty story: the NBA is not just entering a market, it is proposing to replace the architecture that runs it.
Read article →The question was never whether Cristiano Ronaldo was the greatest footballer. That argument, absorbing as it remains, has always been the wrong one to have. The more interesting question, and the one that will...
Read article →The most expensive logo in sport is also one of the least valuable on its own.
Read article →The conventional read on a beer brand sponsoring cricket is straightforward: put the logo where the cameras point, associate the product with the occasion, and let broadcast reach do the rest. It is a model that has...
Read article →There is a version of this story that writes itself easily. A private equity firm buys into a sailing league. The press release mentions adventure, sustainability, elite athleticism. The deal gets filed under “sports...
Read article →CVC Capital Partners’ footprint across global sport is difficult to overstate.
Read article →What happens when sport stops merely using technology and starts being organized by it?
Read article →At first glance, the idea sounds almost contradictory.
Read article →Italy’s failure to qualify for consecutive World Cups is easy to interpret in familiar ways.
Read article →This weekend’s Dagenham & Redbridge stream is easy to misread. On the surface, it looks like exactly the sort of attention-grabbing crossover modern sport produces every week.
Read article →Arsenal’s launch of “The Arsenal” is easy to misread if it is treated simply as a new app, a new content destination, or a fresh layer of fan service.
Read article →In Formula 1, millions of dollars are invested in sponsorships every season.
Read article →Sometimes a sponsorship deal says more about an industry than about the team itself. In fact, the most interesting thing about the Nu Stadium naming-rights deal might not be the stadium itself.
Read article →The first contests have already been fought, and medals are finding their way onto the shoulders of worthy champions.
Read article →What happens when a Grand Slam starts treating fans like players, not just spectators?
Read article →When Liverpool Football Club most recently partnered with Tommy Hilfiger, it was widely framed as an off-pitch lifestyle move rather than a football one. No match kits were touched. No technical supplier was...
Read article →The Enhanced Games have no shortage of attention, but attention isn’t the same as legitimacy. With no sponsors or broadcasters announced just months before launch, the real challenge isn’t awareness; it’s trust. The...
Read article →F2025 marked a decisive turning point for the business of sport.
Read article →Formula 1 has always been a battleground for speed, brilliance and ambition, but in recent years, something deeper has shifted. Teams once held together by passion and persistence now carry billion-dollar price tags....
Read article →Few partnerships define a sport the way Adidas defined German football. For seventy years, their connection represented more than sponsorship, it was national identity stitched into fabric. In this article, we...
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How countries build sustainable sports ecosystems: strategy, participation, talent, infrastructure, events, investment, data and collaboration, examined one capability at a time.
Saudi Arabia has invested heavily in sport. Great Britain has built one of the world's most effective Olympic medal systems. India is developing a nationwide grassroots network. Yet each story reflects only part of the picture.
Read article →National sports strategies rarely fail because they lack ambition. They fail because ambition is not translated into priorities, ownership, measurable targets and consequences.
Read article →A medal can inspire someone to try sport. It cannot make the local club affordable, open a school facility after hours, provide an inclusive coach or make someone return the following week.
Read article →Talent is rarely the scarce resource in sport. The system capable of finding, developing and retaining it usually is.
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The full data edition of our F1 valuation report: team-by-team valuations, revenue trajectories, prize money under Liberty and the investor gold rush, with all charts.
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Sharp takes on the deals, decisions and dynamics shaping the modern sports economy. Episode one is live: performance psychologist Gaj Ravichandra on Argentina, pressure and what losing control costs a brand. New conversations land here and on Spotify.
Gaj Ravichandra, Director of Performance at Vinciamo Sports, explores how rivalry can increase performance, attention and commercial value, while also creating behavioural and reputational risk. From El Clásico to Boca-River, the episode asks where the rivalry premium ends and the rivalry cost begins.
The Lakers just became the most expensive team in sporting history, fourteen months after selling for $10 billion. Alexander Strulak, Strategic Partnerships Advisor & Communications Manager at Vinciamo Sports, speaks about what that price really buys, from the Lakers' record deal to FIFA's failed $20 billion vehicle, and asks: as AI makes content abundant, is consequence the only scarce asset left? AI can manufacture spectacle. It cannot manufacture consequence.
Gaj Ravichandra, Director of Performance at Vinciamo Sports, explores why the athlete may be modern sport’s most underpriced commercial risk. Using examples including Emma Raducanu, Tom Dumoulin, Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka, the episode examines how mental health, physical durability and athlete welfare can directly affect availability, brand value, media rights and long-term investment returns. Because when the athlete breaks down, the impact extends far beyond the individual through teams, sponsors, broadcasters and the wider business of sport.
Andrew Bailey, CEO of Vinciamo Sports, explores how Real Madrid's member-owned model protects its independence and identity, and what that means for everyone trying to buy their way into football.
Performance psychologist Gaj Ravichandra takes apart the moments when control slips: what it costs on the pitch, and what the same psychology does to brands and boardrooms under pressure.