Sport Industry Awards 2021: Meet The Partners
As the Sport Industry Awards 2021 officially opens for entries – and celebrates its 20th anniversary – we take a look at the partners who power the Awards year after year, helping to ensure it remains the centre piece of an industry that continues to produce excellence and evolve.
OFFICIAL PARTNERS
Aberdeen Standard Investments is dedicated to helping investors around the world reach their desired investment goals and broaden their financial horizons.
We seek to provide world-class investment expertise across a breadth of markets and asset classes. Our full range of solutions span equities, multi-asset, fixed income, liquidity, sovereign wealth funds, real estate and private markets. Coupled with a wide range of investment approaches, we transform new investment ideas into practical investment products designed to deliver real value for money to investors.
With employees in more than 40 locations worldwide, our operations extend across global financial capitals and important regional centres. This brings us closer to our clients and customers around the world, and provides invaluable knowledge and insight to share with our people.
Today, we manage a total of £455.6bn (€501.2bn/$562.9bn) of assets on behalf of governments, pension funds, insurers, companies, charities, foundations and individuals across 80 countries (as at 30 June 2020). As a responsible global investor, we leverage our scale and market position to raise standards in both the companies and industries in which we invest, and help drive best practice across the asset management industry.
Aberdeen Standard Investments’ is proud to support the Tessa Jowell Community Award.
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it. How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty. With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
The Sport & Leisure team at AXA XL Insurance provides tailored insurance solutions to a wide variety of clients, offering in- depth, comprehensive coverage across many classes of sport and leisure business.
Going beyond the expected: it runs in the family
When you join Coutts, you join an eclectic family. A family of roaming adventurers. Trailblazers. Thinkers. Convention breakers. History makers.
To take care of that family, we do everything that could be expected from a private bank. But for such an extraordinary family, the expected just isn’t enough. We specialise in the unexpected.
Our specialist Sports and Entertainment team understand that the demands facing sports’ professionals can leave little time for financial management, and that their needs will often increase in complexity as their careers progress. Highly connected within the sporting world, ours experts work as part of our clients’ trusted advice teams. Through close collaboration with agents, professional advisers and family.
We may be in the business of money. But really, money’s just the medium. Our real business is to be indispensable to you. To help you go beyond the expected, for it runs in this extraordinary family.
We’re Coutts. Welcome to our family.
Dow Jones Sports Intelligence, part of the Dow Jones Risk & Compliance portfolio, is the first service of its kind designed specifically for stakeholders across the sports industry. Leveraging our expertise as a leading provider of business critical news and information, we deliver bespoke evaluations of risk that combine the rigour of financial and corporate due diligence with sports expertise, insight and context.
PT SportSuite is a uniquely modular digital media platform that transforms sports organisations into modern media powerhouses.
The PT SportSuite product suite allows sports organisations of all kinds to create sustainable digital content ecosystems, with the ability to collect, store, publish, stream and monetise digital media.
PT SportSuite empowers sporting organisations to increase fan engagement, media IP production, unlock value in their digital archives, cost effectively deliver an experience for their digital communities across mobile, web, social and video OTT, while increasing community and brand sponsored engagement via community media collection and innovative augmented reality technology.
Whether you’re a university sports team, a professional sports brand or anyone in-between, PT SportSuite’s unique scalability means we can help you achieve your digital objectives, no matter how big or small.
Sportradar is the global provider of sports betting and sports entertainment products and services. Established in 2001, the company occupies a unique position at the intersection of the sports, media and betting industries, providing sports federations, news media, consumer platforms and sports betting operators with a range of solutions to help grow their business. Sportradar employs over 2,000 people in more than 30 locations around the world. It is our commitment to excellent service, quality and reliability that makes us the trusted partner of more than 1,000 companies in over 80 countries and official partner of the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, FIFA and UEFA. We monitor, analyze and deliver insights from more than 400,000 matches annually across 60 sports. With deep industry relationships, Sportradar is not just redefining the sports fan experience; it also safeguards the sports themselves through its Integrity Services division and advocacy for an integrity-driven environment for all involved.
Wiggin is a law firm that specialises in media, technology and brands. We help you realise the value of your ideas in a digital age.
We’re best known for our work on the most lucrative and complex media and data rights deals but we also frequently work on digital collaborations, publishing and merchandising deals and sponsorship and endorsement agreements, including the natural cross-over with tie-ups involving our betting company and computer games clients. We work with sports brands to protect and secure their IP rights, ensuring no one profits from your IP, apart from you.
As sports fans, we share common goals with you and will push beyond the usual legal advisory role to identify opportunities and maximise the value of your sports or esports property.
Sport is global and our experience is too. Our clients include federations, national governing bodies, event organisers and other sports rightsholders, official data providers, sponsors, clubs and teams, broadcasters and digital platforms, agencies, influencers and esports organisations, so we really do know the ‘business of sport’.
YouGov Sport is a global sports, sponsorship and entertainment research company, working with sports key stakeholders to unlock meaningful, actionable insights.
Incorporated in July 2010, YouGov Sport has continued to establish itself as a leading research consultancy specialising in the business of sports, events and sponsorship with a solid track record of working with major international, national and regional clients.
Fully integrated as the Sport & Entertainment arm of YouGov – one of the world’s largest and most respected research firms – YouGov Sport has the unique ability to deliver insight of great quality and scale through access to a panel of 8 million participants across 40+ countries and industry-leading tools such as BrandIndex, SportsIndex, Profiles and Global Fan Profiles. Global media monitoring resources and proven valuation methodology also make YouGov Sport an industry leader in sponsor media and asset evaluation.
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
CSM Live creates and delivers award-winning branding and live experiences around the world.
As consumers get hungrier for unique experiences, we are driven to define, design and deliver truly innovative solutions that meet and often exceed client expectations.
We are trusted by both sporting federations and global brands to bring their events and sponsorship to life in a way that delivers measurable impact and creates an extraordinary fan experience.
Our branding has brought to life such global sporting events as the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, the Ryder Cup, the Rugby World Cup and Formula E.
To enable some of the biggest brands in sport, such as Johnnie Walker, LFC World, HSBC and Lidl, to create deeper connections with their fans, we produce award-winning experiential activations and live events across the world.
Our global offering of 16 offices in 13 countries, covering all five continents, gives us a unique local presence in all major markets.
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 to discover, purchase and manage imagery and digital content.
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.
With 25 years experience of producing award-winning design, Jump is a creative agency with an extensive track record of making exciting and innovative visual identities for sporting events, sponsorship and digital content.
Everything we create is made by our own talented team of designers, animators, art directors and producers, allowing us to have complete control over the creative process.
We can handle the entire project, from concept generation and storyboarding to filming, CGI, special effects and post-production. All overseen by an experienced and knowledgeable production team, delivering a high quality content for any platform.
LiveWire Sport is a BAFTA-winning agency trusted by the world’s leading sports organisations to build audiences, engage fans and drive value through best-in-class content.
Our clients include the Premier League, The FA, Wimbledon, FIFA, ICC, Tottenham Hotspur, Inter Milan, Channel 4, ATP Media, Six Nations and Ascot Racecourse, among many others. We provide creative, video and editorial content production, marketing campaigns, strategy and full management of digital and social media platforms, with a focus on driving commercial value for clients and their partners. Our team plan, produce, publish, promote, distribute and analyse content and have decades of expertise in covering major events around the globe.
In 2019 we launched our Diversity in Digital Mentoring Programme, a new initiative to support the diverse range of talent throughout the UK, from under-represented groups in the sport and digital industries.
Thomas Lyte brings together truly exceptional skills in designing and crafting sporting trophies for the most revered events and athletes in sport. With their spirit of adventure, Thomas Lyte create stunning and emotive symbols of achievement, using traditional gold and silversmithing skills combined with leading edge technology.
Manufactured in their London workshop their gallery of custom designed bespoke trophies include, The Emirates FA Cup and Women’s FA Cup, The Guinness 6 Nations and the Women’s 6 Nations, The Fedex ATP No1 and ATP Finals trophies, the FIBA World Cup and the Women’s Hockey World Cup. With the exciting explosion in eSports, Thomas Lyte are also responsible for the discipline’s most coveted prizes, designing making not only the FIFA eWorld Cup but also Riot Games’ League of Legends World Championships trophy also known as The Summoner’s Cup.
Thomas Lyte never compromise on quality. They embody great craftsmanship with meticulous attention to detail and were honoured to be appointed Royal Warrant Holders as Goldsmiths Silversmiths to Her Majesty the Queen. This craftsmanship is essential in the restoration work completed each year repairing and restoring the likes of The Webb Ellis Rugby World Cup, The British Grand Prix Trophy, The Davis Cup and the Ryder Cup.
If you need an iconic symbol of achievement for your event or tournament, consultation is free and their team would be delighted to help and support.
