Africa Business of Sport Podcast

This episode is part of our 3-part series focusing on the intersection of sustainability and sport on the African continent, in partnership with Sustainable Sport Africa, an organisation which seeks to transform Africa's sport ecosystem by interweaving sport and sustainability through collaboration, innovation and compelling narratives.

In the second instalment of the #SSA series, Edem and Jabu are joined again by the Co-Founders of Sustainable Sport Africa, Rachel A. Aron and Tristan Niesslein, to consider the impact of extreme weather on sport events, the development of climate resilient sport infrastructure, and how various interconnections between sport and conversation, nature and poaching.

🌍 Visit ⁠Sustainable Sport Africa's website⁠ to learn more about the organisation's activities and offerings in sport and sustainability.

In this episode, Founder and CEO of Global Fan Network (GFN), Robbie Lyle, joins Edem and Jabu to discuss his experience of founding and building Arsenal Fan TV, how the partnership between GFN and Reactoo has developed a global community of fans and accelerated the scalability of FanZone, innovative monetisation strategies that content creators or sport organisations in Africa could adopt, how technology and connectivity has lowered barrier of entry of content creators developing media companies and the evolving importance of fans in the contemporary sport business ecosystem.

In this episode, Edem and Jabu are joined by Managing Director of Pulse Sports, James Torvaney, to assess how the global trend of the convergence of sports media and betting is playing out in Africa, the strategic drivers and commercial value of sport stars like Kylian Mbappe and Memphis Depay spending their off-season in Africa, how sport properties and brands are leveraging the intersections between sport and pop culture, and the role of infrastructure development and government funding in accelerating the growth of African sport.

This episode is the final part of our series dedicated to the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™.

This episode is part of our 3-part series focusing on the intersection of sustainability and sport on the African continent, in partnership with Sustainable Sport Africa, an organisation which seeks to transform Africa's sport ecosystem by interweaving sport and sustainability through collaboration, innovation and compelling narratives.

In this episode, Head: Media Leadership Think Tank at GIBS Business School and former Board Member at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Michael Markovitz, joins Edem and Jabu for an in-depth evaluation of the South African sport media and broadcasting landscape.

Michael extensively discusses MultiChoice and SuperSport's historical monopoly over South African sport broadcasting, the steps taken by the Competition Commission to address SABC's submissions regarding anticompetitive practices, the significance of Independent Communication Authority of South Africa's lengthy inquiry into Pay-Television Sport Broadcasting and an insight into SABC and SuperSport's protracted sub-licensing negotiations for 2023 Rugby World Cup free-to-air rights.

In this episode, Chief Intelligence Officer at Twenty First Group, Omar Chaudhari, joins Edem and Jabu to understand the prospects of the African Football League (AFL) through the lens of Twenty First Group's models on developing a sport product which include the following key criteria: quality, jeopardy and connection.