logo
episode-header-image
Aug 2023
58m 15s

UP331 The Big Idea - Women's World Cup S...

UNOFFICIAL PARTNER
About this episode

The Buy Side is our regular series on creativity in sports marketing, with regular co-host Simon Moore, award winning Creative Director.
Joining us for this look at creative work around the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup are Jane Purdon, former Premier League, Sunderland FC and author of The Homecoming: The Lionesses and Beyond, Sarah Batters, of P&G and more recently Southampton FC and Charlotte Thomson, head of women's football at Copa90.

The Work:
Les Bleues - Orange

Watch Women’s Sports - Johnnie Walker

What The Football - Nike

Play Until They Can't Look Away - Adidas

Goal of the Century - Hyundai

Var Tid Nu (Our Time Now) - Adidas Sweden

Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry.
To join our community of listeners,
sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter @UnffclPrtnr

We publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday.

These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport.

Our entire back catalogue of 300 sports business conversations are available free of charge here.

Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner’ on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher and every podcast app.

If you’re interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series, you can reach us via the website.



Up next
Aug 19
UP497 'Buy It or Build It': Simon Denyer on the Billion-Dollar Sports Media Playbook
As co-founder of Perform and DAZN, Simon Denyer has spent the last twenty years at the intersection of sport, media, and technology. Last week he brokered an innovative new relationship between La Liga and Disney+ via his new company PEAK Sports Media. This is a conversation abou ... Show More
1h 14m
Aug 12
Inside Edge - Peter Hutton on Cricket, India and the rights market
This is an episode of Inside Edge, our series on the cricket business with regular co-host Mike Jakeman. Today's guest is Peter Hutton, and nobody knows more about the relationship between television and cricket than Peter Hutton.Strap yourselves in, this is a masterclass.This ep ... Show More
1h 5m
Aug 5
UP495 Joey D'Urso on how football shirts explain the world
Every shirt tells a story. Joey D'Urso, an award-winning journalist from The Times and formerly of The Athletic, joins UP to discuss his new book: More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power.• How the Gazprom sponsorship on FC Schalke 04's shir ... Show More
45m 59s
Recommended Episodes
Mar 2023
Football is for boys?
Welcome to a special podcast with Helen Evans, celebrating women in football.  In this podcast you’ll hear some amazing stories from fans, both local and worldwide, who have been following United for decades. You’ll also hear from individuals working in sport who tell us what Man ... Show More
55m 42s
Nov 2019
Jules & Andy: Working from Euro 2020, the Women's football weekend, and our favourite ever matches
Greetings from Football Ramble Daily HQ, where your favourite duo are back with another episode! With England safely qualified for the Euros, and the other home nations still in contention, we look ahead to how the multi-city tournament next summer will affect travelling fans and ... Show More
38m 48s
Sep 2023
Paving the Way for Girls and Women in Sports with DiDi Haračić — Episode 143
I am very excited for today’s episode for a couple of reasons. First, if you’ve been listening to the show for a while, you know I haven’t always been a solo host. Well, we have some exciting things happening and I’m very pleased to announce that one of my future co-hosts is maki ... Show More
29m 52s
Jan 2023
The United Cup - our verdict; Who looks good, who doesn’t?
Happy new year! With the 2023 tennis season very much underway, Catherine, David and Matt get stuck into the United Cup. What have we made of the event generally? Is there a way to guarantee more live mixed doubles matches? And which players have impressed? We talk Iga Swiatek, P ... Show More
1h 5m
Jun 2023
The Closer Weekly: The Saudis and the Soccer Team
A new kind of money is flooding into professional sports: sovereign wealth. Aimee and Ben check in on Saudi Arabia's ownership of Newcastle United – who have now qualified for the Champions League – and why sportswashing is so prevalent and successful for these investors. Is ther ... Show More
17m 41s
Mar 2023
Ella Toone - "We're making history"
A superstar and huge role model joins us in this latest UTD Podcast episode, as Ella Toone talks us through her meteoric rise, in tandem with that of the women’s game in general. As a devoted fan growing up, her dream of playing for the Reds appeared impossible but the inception ... Show More
39m 51s
Jan 2023
The NFL
The NFL — it’s almost synonymous with America today. And its history is a fascinating lens to explore the nation’s development over the last 100 years, from WWII to TV and suburbs to the Internet and social media. What began as a quasi-illicit league in small midwestern towns is ... Show More
3h 47m