Interviews with sports executives working in the Football (Soccer)
Steve Pastorino chats with Sean Callanan about building a sports team in America's hottest sports city Las Vegas with the Las Vegas Lights Football Club. On this podcast you'll learn about: How the Las Vegas Lights started in the United Soccer League The importance of keeping the local Las Vegas community engaged Why is [...]
Jesper Søegaard from the Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU) chats with Sean Callanan about the digital transformation at the DBU and how they have engaged grassroots football community via Driblr app. On this podcast you'll learn about: A brief background about Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU) The challenges in the digital and commercial space for Danish football The [...]
On this week's episode, Sean chats with David Fowler, former FIFA Head of Strategy & Intelligence and now Marketing Director at mycujoo. Mycujoo is a football streaming program targeted at secondary leagues, women’s football, youth, futsal, and amateur football. On this podcast you'll learn about: David's career at FIFA spanning over 12 years (including [...]
On this week's episode, Sean catches up with Paul Rogers, Head of Digital and Social Media at AS Roma. Sean and Paul met up at the recent Business of Sport Summit and chat about the origins of Liverpool digital and his strategy pivot at AS Roma. On this podcast you'll learn about: How Liverpool [...]
On this week's episode Sean catches up with Chris Harris, Managing Editor (Digital) at Arsenal F.C. Chris is also another guest from the #SportsBiz Slack community with now over 700 people. On this podcast you'll learn about: The fight for fans attention The importance of storytelling.... players are the key How Arsenal are growing their followers [...]
Sean catches up with Adam Rootman, Senior Digital Manager from Vancouver Whitecaps and Darshan Kaler, CEO from Tradable Bits on the latest podcast. Adam shares with Sean how his time at Vancouver Whitecaps balancing content, campaigns and data. Darshan chats about his experience in Facebook marketing and advertising and how Tradable Bits leverages data for great ticketing [...]
In this episode Sean Callanan chats with Federico Smanio, Head of Digital Transformation and Fan Relationship Management of Italy's Lega Serie B. On this podcast you'll learn about: Federico's involvement in starting up Lega Serie B Connecting fans and the emotional connection they have to their "local" clubs Concentrating on developing local talent for Italian football [...]
Charlie Shin from MLS joins Sean Callanan for the 100th episode of Sports Geek Podcast. Charlie is responsible for the development and execution of league wide CRM infrastructures and CRM initiatives (acquisition, fan engagement, monetization, loyalty) On this Sports Geek Podcast you will learn about: How Charlie moved from business consultant to [...]
In the latest podcast, Sean catches up with Rob Squillacioti from FFA on recent trip to west coast of USA. On this Sports Geek Podcast you will learn about: Key themes for Rob from team visits After SEAT Rob suggests, "Don't be consumed by big data" What is football's big advantage in Australia Importance [...]
In the latest podcast, Sean catches up with Brian Costello from Portland Timbers. Having caught up in person in the US, Sean chatted to Brian again recently to discuss his role as Director, Digital Media/Editor in Chief at the Timbers. On this Sports Geek Podcast you will learn about: What the early days [...]
