Intersections: A podcast by The Connect

By The Connect

Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.

The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.

Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominic... more

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December 11, 2020 Vanessa Åsell Tsuruga (RAKUTEN) | Storytelling with purpose, a personal and professional journey
For S2E10 of “Intersections: a podcast by The Connect” we have a very special guest: Vanessa Åsell Tsuruga, Senior Manager of Global Sports Digital Strategy at Rakuten.
She recently spoke with Rayde and Luis about her journey and responsibilities within the Rakuten Sports business, what inspires her in life and work, and why representation matters. As a common thread of our conversations so far, we explored the importance of mentoring and who and how shaped the life journey she finds herself in.
Vanessa also spoke about her love for writing, and how she is now a published author with her debut novel in Swedish, also translated into English, “Forget-me-not Forever” which is available on Kobo as an eBook:
English - https://www.kobo.com/ebook/forget-me-not-forever
Swedish - https://www.kobo.com/ebook/forgatmigej-for-alltid
#sports #sportsbusiness #media #content #storytelling #digital #mentorship #representation #entertainment #sportsmedia #publishing #literature #books #ebooks #technology
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- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT, Vedran Kusljugic & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor(s): Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic. LinkedIn
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53min
December 08, 2020 Adam Martin (T/A Martin Studio) | Designing in the Sports World
On S2E9 our guest is Adam Martin, the Founder & Creative Director at T/A Martin Studio, an award-winning design studio with the fundamental purpose to serve as a strategic brand consultancy, content resource, and multidisciplinary design studio for a wide range of clients in the sports, entertainment and adjacent industries.
Adam talked to Rayde, Luis and Vedran, about his journey, starting by his early inspiration to become a designer, how that evolved towards sports, the importance of design in communications and his love for sneakers and well-crafted brands.
#sports #sportsbusiness #media #content #entrepreneurship #design #footwear #branding
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Credits
- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT, Vedran Kusljugic & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor(s): Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic. LinkedIn
About Us
Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.
The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.
Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominican born, passionate partnership builder based in Europe with strong relations with the top brands and properties across the world.
Find out more at: https://theconnect.co/
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1h 9min
November 27, 2020 Andrew Pitagorsky (SLAM) | Slam Magazine, The Great Cultural Guidebook
Andrew Pitagorsky is the Vice President of Brand Partnerships at SLAM, he is a successful business development executive with sixteen years of sales, media buying, marketing, and team building experience.
Andrew talked to Rayde, Luis and Vedran about the current media landscape, in concrete sports & basketball media, and the state of New York City basketball.
Andrew “Pitt” Pitagorsky, is an expert in helping brands create and deliver effective custom content across multiple channels, and you can enjoy that expertise with every issue of SLAM Magazine, which in our opinion is the ultimate cultural validation guidebook since its inception in the basketball culture scene.
#sports #sportsbusiness #media #content #entrepreneurship #sports #basketball #nba #entertainment #sportsmedia #printmedia #digitalmedia
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Credits
- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor(s): Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic. LinkedIn
About Us
Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.
The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.
Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominican born, passionate partnership builder based in Europe with strong relations with the top brands and properties across the world.
Find out more at: https://theconnect.co/
...more
59min
November 20, 2020 Joe Markowski (DAZN) | Global Sports Media market & the changing paradigm of content distribution
Guest: Joe Markowski, EVP, Global Platform & Revenue Innovation at DAZN Group
Joe Markowski is a young media executive with hands-on experience across Europe, Asia and North America. He takes us through his journey from an undergrad out of the University of Nottingham, to working at the Perform Group through the ranks managing key client accounts like Euroleague Basketball and FIBA for their LiveBasketball.tv platform, and how that intimate understanding of rights holders enabled him to have a unique perspective of the current and future opportunities in global Sports Media, earning a spot on the internal DAZN foundational team at Perform Group, and how his work at DAZN has taken him from his native England to the United States, going through Japan.
We also touch upon what’s in store for DAZN with their imminent global launch, and what the industry can expect in regards to the next model revisions that will balance out subscriptions and in-platform advertising.
#sports #sportsbusiness #media #content #entrepreneurship #sports #basketball #nba #football #baseball #mlb #nfl #soccer #entertainment #football #boxing #ott #sportsmedia #subscriptionmodels
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Credits
- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor(s): Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic. LinkedIn
About Us
Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.
The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.
Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominican born, passionate partnership builder based in Europe with strong relations with the top brands and properties across the world.
Find out more at: https://theconnect.co/
...more
41min
November 17, 2020 Corey Leff “JohnWallStreet” (Sportico) | SPAC Craze in Sports properties investments
Corey Leff, known by the moniker JohnWallStreet, is one of the most followed and trusted voices in the sports business media space. Currently writing for SPORTICO, the new specialized vertical of Penske Media Corporation (PMC), with a masthead led by industry veterans, Dick Glover and Scott Soshnick.
Launched to complement PMC’s vast array of publications, such as Rolling Stone, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, or Footwear News, Sportico launched in June 2020 as the default resource for professionals seeking the latest and highest quality news and information in the $500 billion worldwide sports industry.
On this episode with Corey, we cover the latest trends in sports finance and investor interest in sports acquisitions through SPACs (Special-Purpose Acquisition Companies), and what are those.
#sports #sportsbusiness #investment #finance #entrepreneurship #sports #basketball #nba #football #baseball #mlb #nfl #soccer #entertainment #football
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Credits
- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
-Co-host: Vedran Kusljugic LinkedIn
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor(s): Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic. LinkedIn
About Us
Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.
The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.
Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominican born, passionate partnership builder based in Europe with strong relations with the top brands and properties across the world.
Find out more at: https://theconnect.co/
...more
24min
November 13, 2020 Michael Gallucci (Entrepreneur) | The Ever Expanding Field of Venturing into Sports
Our guest Michael Gallucci is a eCommerce entrepreneur and executive leader focused on building businesses, marketing tech, operations & content production. Co-Founded, scaled & exited SportsMemorabilia.com, an eCom retailer and the global leader of authentic autographed memorabilia online that produces >$50 million of revenue per year; acquired by the global leader of licensed sports apparel, Fanatics Inc, in 2013 producing more than $2 billion in eCommerce revenue.
Follow him on Twitter and Instagram, or visit his website.

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Credits
- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
-Co-host: Vedran Kusljugic LinkedIn
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor(s): Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic. LinkedIn
About Us
Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.
The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.
Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominican born, passionate partnership builder based in Europe with strong relations with the top brands and properties across the world.
Find out more at: https://theconnect.co/
...more
1h 9min
November 06, 2020 Chaucer Barnes (Translation) | How do Personal Passions impact Brand Marketing
Guest
Chaucer Barnes is a marketing & creative savant who sits with the CMO hat at the cockpit of Translation LLC, arguably the more nuanced and connected to current culture agency in the game.
It is no surprise, as Chaucer is the embodiment of Translation’s way -what he calls the not-so-secret sauce- of applying to their craft what their team members call passions & hobbies. He is a Philosophy graduate, MC, and connoisseur of military history, with an acute sense of context.
The work of Translation is legendary on its own with major accounts and partners like Disney, the NBA, AT&T, StateFarm, Kaiser Permanente, Apple Music, HBO and internationally acclaimed Budweiser’s Made In America festival. Out of Translation and the mind of its founder, Steve Stoute, came UnitedMasters which is the premium music distribution services and brand
partnerships facilitator for independent artists.
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Credits
- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
-Co-host: Vedran Kusljugic LinkedIn
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor(s): Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic.
About Us
Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.
The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.
Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominican born, passionate partnership builder based in Europe with strong relations with the top brands and properties across the world.
Find out more at: https://theconnect.co/
...more
1h 3min
October 30, 2020 Pat Cassidy (New Balance) | Building Strong Working Partnerships
Our guest Patrick Cassidy, is the (former) Global Director, Consumer Brand Marketing & Athlete Activation at New Balance, and before he co-founded the internationally acclaimed basketball magazine, Dime.
Patrick takes us through his journey of becoming an entrepreneur and figuring out how to dominate in the publishing business, to today and his role with sports legacy brand New Balance, and how they have changed their approach to brand communications through meaningful Athlete partnerships with the likes of Francisco Lindor, Kahwi Leonard, Coco Gauff, Ronald Acuña Jr., and Sadio Mané amongst other. Pat also touches on avant-garde brand collaborations, as with NYC-based Aimé Leon Dore, and their New Balance Tokyo Design Studio collab with outdoor brand Snow Peak.
Follow Patrick on Twitter and get a glimpse at his fervent love for his city and sports that saw him grow in Philadelphia.
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Credits
- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor(s): Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic. LinkedIn
About Us
Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.
The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.
Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominican born, passionate partnership builder based in Europe with strong relations with the top brands and properties across the world.
Find out more at: https://theconnect.co/
...more
1h 3min
October 23, 2020 Latest on the NBA, MLB and other leagues handling the comeback! - S2E1
Summary
The boys are back with season 2.
Rayde, Luis and Vedran talk about their impressions of the NBA, MLB and other leagues handling the global pandemic with their seasons and short term expectations for them, and talk shop about the different topics about and around sports today...
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Credits
- Hosts: Rayde Luis Baez, Twitter: @RaydeLuisBT & Luis Manuel Baez. Twitter: @LuimaBT,
- Executive Producer: Luis Manuel Baez.
- Editor: Luis Manuel Baez & Vedran Kusljugic. LinkedIn
About Us
Intersections podcast dives into the overlapping layers of brand partnerships, and the overall sports and entertainment business world.
The Connect is Rayde Luis Baez.
Rayde Luis Baez, is a Dominican born, passionate partnership builder based in Europe with strong relations with the top brands and properties across the world.
Find out more at: https://theconnect.co/
...more
1h 17min
October 22, 2020 Intersections: A Podcast by The Connect - Season 2
We’re back with “Intersections: a podcast by The Connect”, with new features and lots of interesting interviews by the Founder Rayde Luis Baez, Luis Baez and Vedran Kusljugic.

On your favorite platforms, tomorrow!

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FAQs about Intersections: A podcast by The Connect:

How many episodes does Intersections: A podcast by The Connect have?

The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.