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In this week's Sports Loft Podcast, we explore the broadcast and sponsorship landscape surrounding the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, NWSL and Super League. To unpick it all, we've called upon Jenny Mitton, director and women's sport lead at M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment, who's worked on some of the biggest sports sponsorships of recent times. Joining Jenny and host Yanni Andreopoulos are returning guests Tom Read, chief commercial officer of Spalk, and FEVO's chief revenue officer, Josh Rose. Our panel assesses the state of play when it comes to broadcast infrastructure, sponsorship activations, commercial opportunities and more.  And in the second part, we switch gears to explore the fascinating landscape of sports content streaming. As Netflix hints at venturing into live sports, potentially launching a new golf competition, we ponder its implications for the industry and ask whether some sports need Netflix more than Netflix needs sport. Answers on a postcard please.   Timestamps 02:00 – Favourite sporting moments of the week 06:30 – The viral Orange Women's World Cup ad 12:30 – Investment in broadcast production around the women's game 17:15 – The opportunities around women's football and other sports 25:20 – Does sport need Netflix more than Netflix needs sport? 27:50 – The changing landscape of sports distribution 30:30 – Which stories should Netflix and others focus on?   This episode references: The Drum – The Orange Women's World Cup ad is dividing the internet

In this week's Sports Loft Podcast, Yanni sits down with our very own Charlie Greenwood, CEO and founder of Sports Loft, plus Andy Selby, our head of strategy. Together, they reflect on the highlights and key themes raised at the Sports Loft Showcase 2023. After giving a quick recap of the event, we dig into the biggest trend of 2023: the impact of AI. Undoubtedly it will have major repercussions for the sports industry, so it was fascinating to see how AI is already being used to solve problems and create opportunity. In the podcast, we discuss how companies like Move.ai, Satisfi, Greenfly, FEVO, and Spalk are using artificial intelligence to do just that. Fundraising is another significant topic the tech industry is wrestling with, and our panel addresses misconceptions around the availability of VC funds, highlighting successful fundraising efforts. Finally, the Sports Loft team explores the opportunities for women's sports to benefit from technology, focusing on how innovative solutions can support women's teams and leagues

In this episode, we take a look back at the recently concluded Cheltenham Festival, one of the biggest fixtures on the UK sports calendar. Our guests are Olaf Gueldner, chief marketing officer at The Jockey Club, Nick Goggans, CEO and founder of PumpJack Dataworks, and Tom Read, chief commercial officer at Spalk. Host Yanni kicks things off this week by asking Olaf about the success of Cheltenham this year and how his team approach marketing a sporting event with deep historic roots. The panel then dives into the challenges faced by organisers of such events, why knowing your audience can help to improve the fan experience, and how data is crucial for developing successful marketing strategies. Our guests also talk about the importance of broadcast and streaming for growing the sport and finding new fans, as well as the potential of audio and commentary in building relationships with fans and racegoers. Finally, as ever, we ask our guests to share their favourite recent sporting moment. 3baa75c089bcedf8a675e5d070333d2db07288b2

For the second year running, this year's Super Bowl was streamed in Japanese via NFL Game Pass – the league's direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform. The goal? To bring new fans to the sport and serve existing fans better. It worked, with viewership increasing year-on-year by triple-figure percentages.    Japan isn't the only country on the radar of Samson Mayall, the NFL's senior manager of direct-to-consumer. Game Pass delivers year-round NFL content to fans across Latin America in a range of local languages. Germany, a hotbed of American football fandom, has also been trialled. In total, fans can access NFL content in 200 countries around the world. Behind each of the local language streams is Spalk – the remote commentary platform that makes broadcasting multi-language sportscasts simple. In this episode, Yanni is joined by Samson and Tom Read, chief commercial officer at Spalk, to discuss the partnership, the NFL's approach to developing global fandom and how direct-to-consumer plays a pivotal role in the league's goal of taking football to the world.

This week Yanni is joined by Ben Reynolds, CEO and co-founder of Spalk, the remote commentary platform that enables sports from around the world to be localised for different audiences through language, dialect and even team allegiance.  Spalk combines its Virtual Commentary Studio with a Talent Marketplace. This means broadcasters and right-holders have the software to put out broadcast-quality commentary from anywhere with an internet connection, and have access to a vast array of sportscasters spanning tens of sports, languages and regions. Today Spalk boasts more than 2,500 commentators across some 50 countries, covering 30+ sports, including some of the biggest events on the global calendar. We catch up with Ben to hear about the successes of 2022 (including the football World Cup), the potential of remote commentary for providing niche audiences with unprecedented levels of personalisation, and how Spalk customers are turning what was previously a cost centre into a revenue stream. In this episode we reference: Sports Loft – Want to take a sport to new markets? Speak their language

This week, it's episode 50 of The Wormcast. Tom Read, VP of Strategy & Partnerships at Spalk joins the show. We talk about how Spalk has carved their position in the new world of sports production with their unique virtual commentary studio operation. They're provide multiple language commentary for Hockey Night in Canada, World Rugby and FIBA events through their technology. We also get into the NFT world, why it's exploded so fast in recent days, streaming the hope for tier 2 and tier 3 sports events and a lot more. Enjoy! Topics discussed: 1:45 Intro into Spalk and what service they provide rights holders 7:00 Spalk's mutiple language commentary options for Hockey Night in Canada 14:50 Inside the production process at Spalk 19:30 Investment from Greg Norman 25:45 Collectibles in the NFT world and where does it fit in sponsorship-wise 30:00 Will replay rights bt NFT's golden moment? 34:10 Streaming - the hope for tier 2 and tier 3 sports leagues 38:45 The Manningcast and how other broadcasters will creat different ways to keep eyeballs on their events. 42:00 Betting sites obtaining clip rights from leagues for their apps 45:00 Clubhouse, Greenroom and the future of social audio. Links mentioned in this episode: http://www.spalk.tv This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

Kiwi-founded alternative commentary startup Spalk has raised US$3 million ($4.3m) in a Series A round supported by a clutch of sports personalities - including Steven Adams and Greg Norman.Spalk was founded by recent Auckland University grads Ben Reynolds and Michael Prendergast in 2015, the NZ Herald reports.The pair landed a spot in Vodafone NZ's Xone business incubator the following year to develop their "next-generation sports broadcasting" startup - which syncs alternative commentary offered by bloggers and podcasters with live broadcasters.Prendergast told Heather du Plessis-Allan the platform allows broadcast commentators to work from home."They log in, they get a live feed on their laptop, they commentate as if they are at the stadium, and we sync that all up, and you as the viewer have no idea we're involved at all."Spalk can be also used by those seeking commentary in a different language, or by a different athlete or influencer. LISTEN ABOVE  

Technology is changing sports broadcasting. We discuss how with two leaders who are shaping innovation in that area. World Rugby's Ronan Donagher, who has overseen the implementation of video refereeing and the growth of rugby broadcast to new nations. He is joined by Ben Reynolds, CEO of Spalk, a technology that powers remote commentary and production of sports events globally.They discuss how remote production has enabled rugby and other sports to reach new markets, how technology can help engage fans and reach new audiences. Ronan tells us what's next for World Rugby, looking ahead to the Olympics the women's world cup and the next men's, France 2023.Ben outlines his ambitions to be the technology powering broadcasts across global events.

Drew Barrand from Sports Loft talks to Ben Reynolds, CEO and co-founder of Spalk. They chat about how the company was formed by friends on a sofa watching sport, what the company does to support broadcasting and commentary and about how covid accelerated growth.

Rees Vinsen is the CEO/Founder of Adduco, a customer data platform and COO of SportsCafe, a sports media network. He also consults to select brands across NZ and USA.From 2012-17 Rees ran Adduco Media, a social agency that delivered entertainment, news and sponsored campaigns to Generation Z audiences. Rees founded the company when he was fifteen, growing and leading his 12-person team to partner with more than 130 brands and Fortune 500's across NZ, Asia and USA.He also served a Partner in First Cut, a venture investment fund based in Auckland that invested in high-impact kiwi startups such as Sharesies, Halter and Spalk.Rees is passionate about building winning teams, products that delight and all things social. He currently works between New Zealand and San Jose, California. Check out what Rees is up to at: https://www.reesvinsen.com/

Show Notes Fox Clips, an innovation from FOX SPORTS and Rugby Australia lets fans share any rugby moments from TV. Viewers of a live sports broadcast can create and share clips of sporting highlights and share them on their social media channels. Available for anyone to use in Rugby Australia’s Xplorer app, FOX Clips uses proprietary image recognition technology to identify what program you are watching and then lets you turn it into a clip and share it . Shout out’s to Spalk for winning of Think Sport’s ‘Startup Battle’ in Switzerland this week. Other local companies who attended were Blinder and Formalytics. Spalk is an NZ business which has developed software for virtual sportscasting and commentary, it’s agile and has the potential to be a low cost plugin for sports rights holders to bring value to their broadcasts. Football Tech Startup GoRout has been named a finalist in a NASA Competition, they are among one of 10 finalists of NASA iTech. The company’s in-helmet display system allows players to view diagrams of plays while on the field. Source: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/itech/iTech_Finalists_Announced & https://www.gorout.com The NRL has signed an initial two-year deal with cloud-based video production platform Blackbird to service their live clipping, editing and publishing of match highlights across their digital channels.

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/ 

This week's episode saw me speak with Ben Reynolds the Co-Founder and CEO of Spalk.Spalk's offices are based out of the Icehouse and I was amazed by the number of significant businesses that have been connected with this Trust.Spalk’s technology allows broadcasters and content owners to offer hundreds of different audio commentary options alongside their existing live broadcast. They have developed some clever technology which is able to perfectly synchronise remote commentary audio to the existing live video. Spalk works with content partners around the world like FIBA, Rugby Canada and Māori Television and have seen their software power 1,000’s of commentaries for millions of sports fans.I hope you enjoy this episode. So, leave a comment and subscribe today.Stay awesome and share the loveEli SmitFounder + HostGroundbreakingpodcast.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Vodafone Xone. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. This week Simon talks to Ben Reynolds about how his company Spalk is making sports commentary more accessible.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 273: We take a quick look at LiAngelo Ball being pulled out of UCLA and an impending possible circus in Europe before we talk to Ben Reynolds, the co-founder and CEO of the sports online commentating platform Spalk. To subscribe to the show, insert this […]Related Posts:Taking The Charge Episode 274: Donatas Urbonas about…Reynolds SpalkTaking The Charge Podcast 261: Emmet Ryan of…Taking The Charge Episode 268: Author David GoldsteinTaking The Charge Episode 266: Chris Urtz