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The Bounce Forward

With the vaccination roll-out starting and life with fewer restrictions on the horizon, everything pointed to a growing pent-up demand for sport. Earlier this month we hosted a follow-up event, The Bounce Forward. Using six months of additional data analysis and projections, we showed that not only does sport have the opportunity to Bounce Back … Continued

How sport needs to adapt as the (third-party) cookie crumbles

Sports properties should be following these developments closely and identifying how they can adapt their business to capitalise. The Privacy Sandbox intends to establish a new framework for digital advertising, and replace most use cases for third-party cookies which, for decades, have been used to build detailed records of behaviours and interests from our internet … Continued

Video: The Bounce Back

However, for the first time in nearly a year, there is now a light at the end of the tunnel with vaccinations rolling out at pace across the world. And with every vaccination that takes place, that light gets just that little bit brighter and a lifting of restrictions just that little bit more within reach. … Continued

Quick Fire Questions: Life at Two Circles

Koya Sanwo (left – joined August 2020), Sophie Behan (centre – joined January 2020) and Ben Robinson (right – joined August 2020) are all Analysts at Two Circles. What are you working on currently? Koya Sanwo: A few different clients. Southampton FC – where we support a range of business areas including ticketing, hospitality and … Continued

Why live sport will return to growth post-Covid

However, with vaccines being rolled out there is light at the end of the tunnel for both sport and society at large. And for the business of selling live sports experiences, our data analysis of fan behaviour shows that Covid will not have a long-term negative impact on the propensity to go – and pay … Continued

Growing Out of the Uncertainty: Sports Media’s Hybrid Future

In Growing Out of the Uncertainty, we use our unique insight from processing and analysing tens of billions of data points on sports fans to predict Covid-19’s long-term impact on sport, and provide a roadmap for sports properties to minimise the challenges and maximise the opportunities. Sports Media’s Hybrid Future As the world navigates a Covid-19 … Continued

Sponsorship’s Digital Revolution

The last two months have been spent exploring how sponsors can be compensated through ‘makegood’ collateral, and how new ‘sponsorable’ broadcast and digital assets can be created as we prepare ourselves for a sustained period of spectator-less sports. Through Covid-19, sports sponsorship’s transition to being a digital business will be accelerated In sports where events have … Continued

Podcast: Kristian Gotsch discusses the impact of Covid-19 on sports

Kristian Gotsch spoke to Mediano about the impact that Covid-19 is having – and will continue to have – on the sports industry and what the future might look like. Kristian discusses both the opportunities and the challenges that sports organisations will face across the world and takes a look at some examples of successful … Continued

Covid-19 and Sport’s New World Order

The most optimistic projections – such as from McKinsey on April 13 – show that the US economy, the world’s biggest, will return to its pre-crisis growth during Q4 of this year. Other projections show a far less optimistic outlook; Goldman Sachs, on March 31, said they believe the US economy will shrink an annualised 34% in Q2 … Continued

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