Charles Altchek
Messi to MLS.
Chad Biagini
Global expansion of every sports league. Everyone is thinking about taking over the globe.
Ari Borod
Does our acquisition of PointsBet count? If so, that’s it. And also the big deals our competitors do. It’s important to see what we want to do and what we don’t want to do.
Tom Braun
Continued evolution of NIL.
Matthew Carpenter-Dennis
PGA Tour and LIV Golf.
Royce Cohen
The Athletics’ potential move to Las Vegas.
Derek Crocker
The growth and momentum of women’s sports.
Keira Emerson
The impact shortened baseball games has on the business and how leagues can continue to evolve their sports.
Jack Groetzinger
NCAA conference realignment.
Bo Han
The massive shakeup of current media deals and the imminent result of traditional media rights holders and organizations turning and exploring new direct-to-consumer models.
David Highhill
The linear bundling, unbundling, and digital re-bundling of content. It’s a balance between scale of audience and targeted DTC offerings. There is a place for all of it, but finding the optimal mix will continue to evolve with platforms and fan preferences.
Danita Johnson
Las Vegas sports development.
Anuk Karunaratne
The decline of RSNs and the transformation of the media landscape.
Ben Kennedy
The impact of generative AI in the sports industry.
Kerry Kenny
State of the cable industry/RSNs; legal challenges in college sports.
Todd Knisley
Evolving landscape of college sports.
David Koonin
The rise of athletes and sports personalities as media properties and content creators. There has never been lesser barriers to entry.
Jason Krochak
The race to profitability in U.S. sports betting.
Jez Lubenetski
AI’s applications across sports, and every business.
Anmol Malhotra
With the rapid growth of artificial intelligence applications I am keen to see how this tech ultimately gets utilized in the sports world. We’ve already seen generative AI tech being used to add audio commentary to video highlights and I’m interested to see how broadcasters, leagues, and teams continue to test/learn in the AI space.
Samita Mannapperuma
The future of college sports (NIL, conference realignment).
Michael Melnitzky
The pace of valuation increases. Very experienced investors are signaling that sports assets are still undermonetized, undervalued and underappreciated.
Darius Naficy
The rise of the Middle East, the influx of non-U.S. brands investing in North America, the intersection of sponsorship and performance marketing.
Joe Nasr
One storyline we’ve been paying close attention to and done a lot of research on as a firm is the changing sports media landscape and decline of the megabundle. Sports are still a marquee asset for media companies and streamers, but we expect increasing consolidation and the overall market to continue evolving as we go forward.
Ashley Navarra Marusak
Cybersecurity. The stat that I was told earlier this year sort of sums it up — “data is now more valuable than gold.” Leagues, teams, stadiums and events sit on a treasure trove of data, process incredible amounts of transactions, and have numerous stakeholders such as some of the leading brands in the world. Cybersecurity is at the top of the list of things that we will see greater investment in by the entire industry over the next 12-24 months.
Tanja Olano
The valuation of women’s sports media rights.
Michael Rabil
Democratizing ownership in teams and leagues for players.
Pamela Rappaport
Diversity, and events like Women's World Cup this year.
Daniel Render
Constant evolving of who can be an owner of a team and potentially the rules around teams accessing financing.
Sandeep Satish
1) The growth in women’s sports. It’s been eye-opening to work on some of these new venue developments, seeing the level of investment, and interest. 2) What the Clippers are doing in L.A. The industry-defining venue of the future.
Andie Schwartz
Anything related to gambling or NIL generally has my attention since there are so many new issues and partnerships rolling out quickly.
Zac Selmon
The future economic model of intercollegiate athletics.
Dev Sethi
I’m very interested in all things NIL — how states are rapidly changing their own rules, NCAA’s new leadership, and how student athletes participate in this still-new era.
Jessica Smith
Tech: AI and VR and how they all fit into sports. And, of course, growth of women's sports.
Logan Swaim
When talent BEEF with each other on social media.
Cale Vennum
Jersey patch sponsorship.
Brian White
NIL.
Eric Winston
The evolving world of college NIL and the vast derivative effects it is causing.
Matt Wolf
Streaming wars and changes in media consumption by sports fans.
Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame
Zach Leonsis
The future of live, local sports programming.
Whalen Rozelle
Seeing the RSNs wobble/fall is really interesting. I’m still waiting for it to all go streaming and become a subscription model, but it’s taking so long.
Morgan Sword
The future of college sports.
