On this week's episode, Sean catches up with Nick Maywald, Group Managing Director at Genius Sports. Sean and Nick chat about the rise of sports & tech especially the rise in demand for stats from leagues & fans alike.
On this podcast you'll learn about:
- How Genius Sports was formed through the coming together of two organisations, Sporting Pulse and Bet Genius
- How the appetite for stats has changed over the past 10 years with the rise of digital
- The impact of fantasy and gamification and the demand for stats
- How Genius Sports are ensuring they are “delivering an experience to the user that they want” through the use of machine learning and AI space
- How teams are pushing to have their own edge with stats
- Why integrity is so important to a stats provider
Resources from the podcast
- Thanks again to Nick Maywald from Genius Sports for being part of this week's show.
- Follow Nick on Twitter @NickMaywald and LinkedIn
- Follow Genius Sports on Twitter @GeniusSports, Facebook and Instagram
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Some tweets you may have missed
Genius Sports new partnership with PGA Tour
ICYMI – Delighted to announce our landmark partnership with @PGATOUR protecting the integrity of their competitions https://t.co/aOSq3oM07f
— Genius Sports (@GeniusSports) September 19, 2017
Official Integrity partner for Edinburgh Sports Conference
Delighted to be the official integrity partner to @EdinSportsConf discussing integrity in football #EdinSportsConf pic.twitter.com/WrScb4y5Qn
— Genius Sports (@GeniusSports) September 7, 2017
Presenting with NBL at Australia Sports Analytics and Sports Technology Conference
Big thank you to @Sporting_Data for organising a superb event! Lots of great feedback from our session with @JeremyLoeliger #sportsanalytics pic.twitter.com/KGW0z6Sb0J
— Genius Sports (@GeniusSports) August 4, 2017
Do you read Sports Geek News? Here's the top articles you missed last month
Did you read these articles last month? https://t.co/ZHZPyOERZL pic.twitter.com/1n9eK8mJEE
— Sean Callanan (@seancallanan) October 5, 2017
Great work Creative Cubes
#cubes3121 full for Pitch Night nice work @TobiSkovron pic.twitter.com/fZIdrQgB1N
— Sean Callanan (@seancallanan) October 4, 2017
Well done to a former CHUNKY client and good friend, Josh Rowe
ANZ makes push into real estate tech, buying property start-up @getREALas congrats @joshrowe not a bad week for you https://t.co/DpDXFynf2J
— Sean Callanan (@seancallanan) October 2, 2017
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