Charles Russell Speechlys sports practice is a top ranked who have been at the forefront of providing legal advice to the sports sector for over 100 years. We have acted in many of the leading cases that have helped to shape what is now known as ‘sports law’ and are go-to advisers for governing bodies, major clubs, elite athletes, brands and agencies.

Our experience spans the full spectrum of sports, including football, rugby, horse racing, Formula 1, cricket, e-sports, boxing, tennis, greyhound racing, athletics, cycling and many more.

We also advise leading brands on a variety of commercial, IP, advertising, marketing and sponsorship issues across a range of sectors including Retail and TMT.

Hookit is the leading sponsorship analytics and valuation platform for sports. Hookit developed the first, most trusted standard in the global marketplace that effectively measures $5B per month of previously unknown sponsorship value that brands receive from athletes, teams, leagues, venues and events in social and digital media. Hookit aggregates billions of data points from social and digital platforms and uses machine learning and predictive analytics to provide real-time insights and valuations for brands and properties to quantify and maximize sports sponsorships.

FeedConstruct is a digital content provider offering a real-time data feed solutions perfectly tailored to capture and entertain any audience. Among our solutions is Friendship platform, an exclusive offer for federations and sports content providers allowing them to deliver streamings from events to 300+ betting operators to purchase. FeedConstruct’s Live Scouts’ reporting combines fast and secure communications to provide accurate and reliable information. Based on our scouts’ reporting, we also provide highly efficient Odds Feed service. For a wide variety of sports data we have Statistics service. To perfectly engage any audience, we provide Live Sports Video Streaming service.

Whistle is Entertainment. Entertainment meticulously crafted for today’s generation by embracing their passion points and appealing to their action-oriented mindset.

We expertly blend our proprietary insights, diverse creator community, production chops and deep analytics to create and curate “breakthrough” content—originals and branded—for distribution via our channels and a carefully vetted roster of strategic partners.

Whistle’s programming is relatable, fun and inclusive, constantly evolving to reflect the tastes of this generation.

Digital Sport was set up with the ultimate goal to enable the sports industry to flourish in the digital age. With the industry ever-changing, Digital Sport bring together a variety of people with the formats ranging from Podcasts, Newsletters, evening Q&A’s, panel sessions, evening drinks and full-day seminars.

Digital Sport is part of Digital Sports Publishers, Snack Media which has aggregated 26m sports fans across our distribution network of 360 platforms and a portfolio of digital fan engagement tools. We work with Brands, Agencies, Broadcasters & Rights Holders to grow and monetise their audience directly and indirectly, produce or distribute compelling fan content and engagement across social media platforms as well as licencing and developing digital fan engagement tools.

Getty Images is the world’s leading creator and distributor of digital imagery, serving business customers in more than 100 countries. 30 years of unmatched experience, knowledge and understanding of sports marketing, plus the largest, most prolific sports collection available today, make Getty Images the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other digital content such as VR and 360s.

We have a track-record of working with some of the most prestigious brands, rights-holders and governing bodies in global sport, including the IOC, FIFA, PGA tour, NBA, and the RFU. Our award-winning photographers cover over 28,000 individual sports events a year, and alongside our world class commercial assignment photography, help our customers produce inspiring work which appears in the world’s media publications, advertising campaigns, television programs, books and online media.

GlobalSportsJobs is the leading specialist digital media and talent platform for the international sports industry. It operates across all sports industry sectors and functions, providing innovative, technology-driven and cost-effective talent acquisition solutions for sports organisations large and small.

Grabyo is the leading cloud-based video production, editing and distribution platform, equipping partners with the tools to manage agile video distribution strategies across all major social media platforms, mobile and OTT applications.

Trusted by major publishers and rights holders such as Sky Sports, ITV, BT Sport, Major League Soccer, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, LaLiga, The English Premier League and AELTC Wimbledon; Grabyo’s SaaS platform is designed to help digital teams maximise their resources.

Grabyo was a launch partner for Facebook Live, Periscope Producer, Twitter Amplify and has delivered more than eight billion video views for partners in 2018.

LiveWire Sport is a BAFTA winning digital agency working with rights-holders, brands and broadcasters to improve digital marketing and communications strategy and delivery. We help our clients use digital to achieve business objectives, understand audiences, grow fanbases, create commercial opportunities and measure success through latest analytics tools. Our editorial teams deliver innovative editorial, video, animation and illustration services in multiple languages and territories. Our extensive experience includes building, launching and managing award-winning digital and social platforms for major events for rights holders and broadcasters, as well as creating marketing campaigns for commercial partners and sponsors.

PA Images is the official photography partner to a wide range of national governing bodies and sporting rightsholders, including The Jockey Club, Sport England, The Professional Footballers Association, British Triathlon, The Scottish Football Association, the Clipper Round The World Race and London 2012.
The extensive reach of our PA wire service and network of over 70 agency partners worldwide, allows photographic coverage of your sport reaching thousands of major media outlets within minutes of action, maximising the exposure of both your sport and brand to local and international markets.
Our award-winning assignment photographers are highly skilled in capturing stunning imagery across all types of photography projects, including studio, reportage, action and event photography – helping you to build revenue and invaluable relationships.

In addition to our live service, we have an online archive of over 30 million images, charting more than 150 years of sporting history available to our partners for both commercial and editorial use.

SBC (Sports Betting Community) is a news, media and events company that works with industry leaders to develop the betting and gaming industry.

In terms of events, SBC organises some of the largest international events in the sports, betting and gaming industries by delivering inspiring content, expert speakers, large exhibitions and unique business opportunities for Senior Industry Executives.

SBC Media is the Media & Communication brand of SBC - it is the largest b2b news publisher in the betting and gaming industry with more than 40 news stories published every single day. SBC Media provides a strong content and advertising platform for operators, suppliers, service providers and affiliates to promote their brand, products and services.

SBC was founded and is managed by Rasmus Sojmark (CEO & Founder) and Andrew McCarron (Managing Director). Together with Oddslife, the company has 40 employees, with headquarters in London, and offices in Manchester, Ukraine (Kiev) and Poland (Poznan). The company has recently added a delegate in Malta and it is expanding its services to the Spanish and LatAm markets.

SPORTO is an international platform for professional networking and knowledge sharing within the sports business industry. SPORTO Conference (since 2004), the leading sports marketing and sponsorship event in SEE, is annually held in Portorose, Slovenia. The biannual SPORTO Magazine delivers stories and further insight into the fast–developing and ever-changing global sports business sector. SPORTO Brunch events offer additional discussion platform and insight into specific topics within the industry.