23 Capital is a specialist finance and solutions company focused exclusively on the Sports, Music, Entertainment & Lifestyle sectors.

We lend against robust and consistent revenue streams. Typically these derive from contracted broadcasting rights, publishing royalties, licensing agreements and sponsorship, among many other assessable cash flows.

Our capital and solutions capabilities encompass straightforward advances through to more complex, off balance sheet structures. We offer artists, entertainers and professional sports teams the freedom to create, inspire and compete supported by finance that is flexible and most importantly fair.

We have deployed over $1.31bn of capital from our principal balance sheet and further advised on circa $1.4bn of transactions since our inception in 2014. Co-founded by Jason Traub and Stephen Duval, we are backed by major global financial institutions, with stakeholders and funding partners such as, Quantum Partners (a private fund managed by Soros) and Corrum Capital.

Eurovision Media Services – the business arm of the European Broadcasting Union – has a global reputation and is the first choice media services provider for many media organizations and sports federations around the world. We provide innovative services across the value chain from content production and broadcast services to content distribution and permanent circuits. We produce and deliver premium live sports, news and entertainment events around the world on all platforms (TV, radio and online).

Fladgate’s Sports Business Group is renowned for having a deep and genuine understanding of the sports sector. We are known for being able to provide a genuine full service offering covering the key legal disciplines involved in the business of sport, and we have an ‘end-to-end’ ability to work with all stakeholders, ranging from governing bodies, rights holders, clubs and institutions to agencies, investors, funders and athletes.

The team has exceptional expertise in advising stakeholders on international major sporting events, commercial rights exploitation and advising on complex commercial litigation in sport. We also have a market leading reputation for international sports investment and finance.

Our specialist lawyers have hands-on practical experience including in-house roles at London 2012, the 2015 England Rugby World Cup and Manchester City FC. We use our knowledge and networks to seek opportunities for our clients and deliver robust and proactive solutions.

We live and breathe the business of sport.

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.

NAGRA is the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group and the world's leading independent provider of content protection and user experience solutions for pay-TV providers, content owners and sports rights holders. Our comprehensive technology portfolio is designed to address today’s ever-evolving pay-TV and OTT market and includes: the NAGRA Security Services Platform, the Conax Contego content security platform, the OpenTV Signature Edition always-evolved OTT video ecosystem, the Conax GO Live OTT solution, direct-to-TV solutions including TVkey, a broad cloud TV offering, DVnor media asset management, NAGRA Insight AI-based pay-TV analytics platform, as well as a comprehensive suite of Anti-Piracy Services and NexGuard forensic watermarking, to monitor, disrupt and fight piracy of premium content at its source.

Sportradar is the leading global provider of sports data intelligence. Established in 2000, 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, analyse 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.

WSC Sports' platform generates personalised sports videos for every digital platform and every sports fan - automatically and in real-time.

Currently being used by leading media rights owners such as Turner Sports, NBA, Bundesliga, US Open and others, WSC Sports’ platform utilises advanced AI and Machine Learning technologies to analyse live sports broadcasts, identify each and every event that occurs in the game, create customised short-form video content and publish to any digital destination. This enables partners to instantly generate and distribute professionally edited personalised clips and videos on a large scale, to engage audiences and maximize video monetisation opportunities.

23 Capital is a specialist finance and solutions company focused exclusively on the Sports, Music, Entertainment & Lifestyle sectors.

We lend against robust and consistent revenue streams. Typically these derive from contracted broadcasting rights, publishing royalties, licensing agreements and sponsorship, among many other assessable cash flows.

Our capital and solutions capabilities encompass straightforward advances through to more complex, off balance sheet structures. We offer artists, entertainers and professional sports teams the freedom to create, inspire and compete supported by finance that is flexible and most importantly fair.

We have deployed over $1.31bn of capital from our principal balance sheet and further advised on circa $1.4bn of transactions since our inception in 2014. Co-founded by Jason Traub and Stephen Duval, we are backed by major global financial institutions, with stakeholders and funding partners such as, Quantum Partners (a private fund managed by Soros) and Corrum Capital.

Fantastec’s “fan-first” perspective connects international fans with the sports that drive their daily lives. A unique blend of scientists, engineers, data analysts, designers, researchers, sports marketing creatives and communication professionals, Fantastec is inventing the future of international fan engagement.

The London-based start-up uses new and emerging technologies such as OTT VOD, VR / AR, wearable tech, AI and the blockchain to connect sports fans with the sports they are passionate about. Fantastec’s mission is to enable globally distanced fans to engage more deeply with the sports, teams and athletes that form a part of their daily activities.

GameOn was founded in 2014 with a shared passion for building innovative messaging products that serve the world of broadcast media. Using its proprietary bot platform, GameOn has designed, developed, and launched business solutions for many of the world's largest media companies, including Time Magazine, Microsoft, and Sky News and Sports, becoming an industry leader in user retention, engagement, and monetisation in the chat application space.

Digital agency Inviqa provides end-to-end support across the digital product lifecycle – from strategy and consulting, to the design, development, and continuous improvement of digital products and services.

Inviqa has ten years’ experience helping leading brands, such as Arsenal FC, the International Tennis Federation, the National Theatre, Virgin and REISS to adapt and succeed in a digital world. The agency is a regular feature in Econsultancy’s Top 100 Digital Agencies.

MX1, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), is a leading global media services provider. It works with leading media businesses to shape content into the ultimate viewer experience, ensuring it can appear on any device anywhere in the world. MX1 offers a full range of content aggregation, content management, channel playout, online video/VOD and content distribution services via its MX1 360 Unified Media Platform to amplify audience reach on any broadcast, online or VOD platform.

MX1 has 16 offices worldwide and operates global state-of-the-art media centres on three continents, enabling customers to reach a potential audience of billions around the world. As well as managing more than 5 million media assets, every single day it distributes more than 3,200 TV channels, manages the playout of over 500 channels, and delivers over 8,400 hours of online video streaming and more than 560 hours of premium sports and live events.

Onefootball reaches 28 million football fans worldwide each month, making it the most popular media platform for young football fans. Founded eleven years ago and available as one of the first 1,000 applications in the world in the Apple App Store in 2009, the company now employs 180 members of staff at the headquarters in Berlin and additional offices in New York, Mexico City, and São Paulo.

With the help of 20,000 news sources worldwide and its own news and video studio, Onefootball provides the younger generation of football fans with breaking football news, live scores, reports, and videos in a total of six languages on its own Onefootball platform and social media channels such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

Perform is the business behind digital sports experiences. We make sport better for fans, media, bettors, bookmakers, rights holders and professional teams. Our industry-critical brands work with the biggest media owners, rights-holders, bookmakers and teams to produce content that transforms the way the world engages with sport.

Pixellot is revolutionising, the sports world with its AI-Automated™ production solutions that are capturing, distributing and monetising sporting events that were never covered in the past.
Pixellot’s automated sports production solutions revolutionise traditional video capture, production and distribution processes, enabling professional and amateur sports organisations to affordably cover and monetise their events.

Pixellot’s technology streamlines the production workflow by deploying an unmanned multi-camera system in a single fixed rig (with additional angles as required), covering the entire playing field. Advanced auto-production algorithms track the flow of play, identify highlights, and insert ads without human intervention.
Pixellot's panoramic capture generates unique interactive content for web, mobile and connected TVs and offers fans, players and coaches intuitive tools to generate and share their own clips.
Pixellot offers an end-to-end OTT solution that supports many monetisation models such as subscription-based, advertising, betting and distribution.

At Synamedia, we’re helping service providers around the globe to deliver, protect, and monetize video content so they can win in the age of Infinite Entertainment. We do that with the world’s most complete, secure, and advanced end-to-end open video delivery solution. And we’re trusted by over 200 top satellite DTH, cable, telco, and OTT operators, broadcasters, and media companies.

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.

GameOn was founded in 2014 with a shared passion for building innovative messaging products that serve the world of broadcast media. Using its proprietary bot platform, GameOn has designed, developed, and launched business solutions for many of the world's largest media companies, including Time Magazine, Microsoft, and Sky News and Sports, becoming an industry leader in user retention, engagement, and monetisation in the chat application space.

Cleeng is a Subscriber Retention Management (SRM:tm:) platform designed for OTT. Subscription economy is booming and improving churn is essential to grow revenue.

The SRM stack is connected with the full subscriber journey and improves identity management, payment, security, churn intelligence and customer care capabilities.
Cleeng helps sports brands like HBO Boxing, FIFA succeed in the online video space (pay-per-view, subscription VOD). We know this space!

Cleeng tracks how the subscriber pays, uses and likes the OTT service. We capture data, and serve it via great dashboards and reports.

We focus on subscriber retention, instead of managing the subscription process.

CSG simplifies the complexity of business transformation in the digital age for the most respected communications, media and entertainment service providers worldwide. With over 35 years of experience, CSG delivers revenue management, customer experience and digital monetisation solutions for every stage of the customer lifecycle. The company is the trusted partner driving digital transformation for leading global brands, including Arrow Electronics, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Charter Communications, Comcast, DISH, Eastlink, Formula One, iFlix, MTN, TalkTalk, Telefonica, Telstra and Verizon.

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.

Friend MTS’ content and revenue protection services can transform the piracy landscape in just weeks. Designed for premium sports and entertainment, including live and on-demand content, the services are used by many of the world’s largest media and entertainment companies. The Emmy Award winning portfolio now includes Piracy-iQ, a ground-breaking service for measuring streaming piracy consumption over ISP networks. Other key services include global monitoring using fingerprint-based content recognition, and the most widely deployed subscriber watermarking in the world. Our battle-hardened ASiD watermarking has been independently tested for robustness, and meets the requirements of Hollywood studios and sports rights owners.

Garland provides the technology and support you need for delivering, transcoding and streaming video over IP networks. The world’s leading suppliers have partnered with us, so we guarantee to meet your broadcast media, sports, education, and corporate needs. From web and mobile streaming to LAN-delivery, 4K broadcast contribution with error correction, and 4G portable uplinks in both hardware- and cloud-based options, we have the solution you need. Plus, you'll gain the advantage of our expert, local support, and have use of our demonstration equipment and training services when you need them. Get your project moving towards success ... talk with us today!

Kiswe Mobile transforms video to bring your fans together for a more social and richer viewing experience. Through our “production suite in the cloud,” we help the sports and entertainment industry scale their broadcast by creating new alternate narrowcasts to superserve different audience segments.

Through Kiswe’s proprietary cloud technology, we also activate social experiences to help media and content companies expand their reach and bring people together for intimate video experiences. Leverage Kiswe’s technology today to get your audiences to lean-in, interact, and socialize with your video like they’re hanging out in the living room.

Levuro delivers an innovative Social Media Marketing Tool, improving engagement and promoting the most effective content. It significantly reduces costs and supports social media managers and marketing managers in their work.

Levuro is based on the experience of Europes most innovative Social TV, joiz, during 5 years. After the innovation phase, Levuro works closely with its “sister” companies Zattoo and Genistat to improve value for the B2B clients. To meet client goals, Levuro has built long-term and reliable partnerships with several renowned players in the digital video industry.

Levuro works in multi-competence teams: a blend of UX designers, software engineers, operational, marketing and social community managers, consultants and data scientists.

Meshh provides world class, location-based intelligence and interaction solutions.
Our technology helps marketers learn more about how their customers behave at live events and experiences.
Then we help them connect, delivering richer, more immersive experiences.
We're proud to work with market leading brands including Formula One, Johnnie Walker, UEFA, Bose, Renault and London Marathon.

Nepa Global Sport brings a powerful consumer science approach to serve our clients in the world of sports. Focused on leading sports leagues, organizations, teams and their partners, Nepa provides comprehensive solutions in market understanding, primary research, social voice and sponsorship valuation. Nepa’s core sports mission is to helping sports organizations optimize sales and fill stadiums through fan insights and building bottom-line results.

Since its launch in 2012, PlayPass has developed a suite of integrated cashless payment, access, registration and staff accreditation platforms enabling live events to increase visitor spend by 15-30%, cut bar queues, eliminate ticket and supplier fraud, gain rich analytical consumer data and operate much more efficiently. The company was crowned ‘the most promising enterprise of 2017’ by the Flemish Government.

The company boasts an impressive array of clients and partners, including Live Nation, AEG Presents, IMG, Mojo Concerts, Last Tour International, Lollapalooza, Goodlive, RSC Anderlecht Football Club, Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Dice, PayPal, Stripe and Six Payment Services.

Socios.com is the world’s first fan voting platform for sports fans fueled by the digital currency Chiliz ($CHZ). Fans can buy branded Fan Tokens for their favourite clubs, and in exchange, receive access to voting rights, through which they can take part in club-specific polls and votes.

French footballing giants Paris Saint Germain and Italian Champions Juventus are the first clubs to have partnered with Socios.com with more to be announced shortly. As well as a portal for their voices and opinions to be heard by the clubs, token-holders will also receive team-specific and platform-wide rewards and can buy and sell Fan Tokens on the app’s marketplace.

TeraVolt fused all their experience in the media business, big data and artificial intelligence and shaped Jupiter for the sports media ecosystem.

Jupiter enables rights originators, holders, and distributors to address their audience in the age of digital transformation by using AI, cloud services and automated video services.

WPG Racing Solutions (WPGRS) provides Fan Engagement solutions committed to the Racing Industry with support for OTT and Esports. WPG-RS is the Fan Engagement contact centre for Formula 1™ and support their F1TV OTT Service in over 100 countries, in multiple languages, 365 days/year.

Our award-winning Race Team Specialist are agents who understand the culture and language of racing. Our facility was custom built for Formula 1™ and is dedicated to Racing including a 25-seat agent training centre and an F1™ simulator.

In November, WPG Racing Solutions was selected as one of the Top-3 BEST Small Contact Centres in Europe by its peers at ECCCSA 2018 (ECCCSA – European Contact Centre & Customer Service Award).

WPG Racing Solutions SRL is located in Bucharest, Romania and is a wholly owned subsidiary of World Phoning Group Inc. a Canadian company based in Toronto, Ontario.

Launched in 2001, Advanced Television has established itself as the leading provider of news and in-depth analysis across the TV and broadband business spectrum. The site provides a Daily News email bulletin, the Friday File e.Digest each week and the weekly Research Monitor.

Founded in January 2015 and based in London, we are a new breed of analyst firm with an experienced team of sector leading industry analysts specialising in pay & multiscreen TV and next -generation content distribution. We are expert in data collection and forecasting. Our research platform is built on the latest database and data visualisation technologies and designed by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We have a long track record of working with all of the major film studios, leading telecoms and pay TV operators, sports rights holders, technology companies, TV channel groups and investment banks. We also have a fantastic team of investors behind us, many of whom are specialist in the business information and research sectors. One of them founded Lovefilm!

Around the Rings is the world’s leading source of news about the Olympics. For the most in-depth coverage of Olympic and global sport news, our subscribers turn to our global team of reporters who have more than 25 years of experience reporting from the world’s biggest sporting events.

We have built our reputation as the most reliable, accurate, independent source of information about the Olympics and elite world sport.

Our partner and readers include several Head of States, IOC, NOCs, International federations, local federation, Sponsors, Sports marketers and media. In fact, Around the Rings is the only publication that can claim paid subscriptions from all 200+ national Olympic committees. Our readers must opt in as well as pay for our content.

Broadcast has recently launched a new magazine called Broadcast Sport which is dedicated to bringing the inspiring worlds of sports production, sports broadcast and sports tech innovation to life.

Broadcast Sport is not only a quarterly magazine – we’ve launched Broadcast Sport online too, as your home for sports industry news. Visit Broadcastnow.co.uk/sport and join our social media channels for your daily does of sports production, sports distribution and sports tech news. Our second issue will be out in June.

CSI focuses on technology developments in content contribution, distribution/transport, transmission and fixed/mobile reception. CSI also endeavours to assess and analyse the business implication of these technologies in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving industry sector.

Digital Sports Publisher Snack Media has access to 26m sports fans across our distribution network of 370 platforms and a portfolio of licenced digital fan engagement tools.

We work with Brands, Agencies, Broadcasters / Publishers & Rights Holders to access, engage and monetise fans via compelling content and engagement tools.

The European Sponsorship Association (ESA) is a not-for-profit membership association created to inspire, unite and grow the sponsorship industry. ESA does this through education, guidance, representation, the recognition of excellence and the sharing of best practice and performance.

Based in London and founded in the summer of 2016, Esports Insider is an esports media, business events company and industry news site.

We run esportsinsider.com which covers all stories in and around the industry, we have run more esports focused business events than any other company globally, and via our ESI Services arm we offer content creation, consultancy, advertising, brand promotion, and white label events services.

Via ESI Connect too we provide options connecting esports organisations to brands, investors and suppliers outside the industry that want in.

FEED is the first magazine fully dedicated to educating the exploding online video industry about the latest technologies and how to use them.

In the next decade, your company’s video offering will be one of the most important parts of your business. Online video is quickly becoming the principle means for brands to communicate their message, and what used to be the sporadic work of PR companies and ad agencies must now become a 24/7 proposition, integrated fully into your business.

Whether you’re a brand who is just developing its video presence or you are a top-tier OTT video, FEED will expose the key decision makers in your organisation to the hot technologies, forefront techniques and major players in the online video industry.

FEED has carefully curated the most useful tech insights in the streaming video world. Each monthly print magazine features interviews with the geniuses of the industry, practical tips for increasing audience share and maximising your ROI, case studies on innovative technologies and pioneering companies.

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 sports clubs and leading sports bodies including The Jockey Club, Sport England, The Professional Footballers Association, British Triathlon, the Scottish Football Association, the Clipper Round The World Race and much more.

We have an archive charting more than 100 years of sporting history providing over 20 million photos worldwide through our dedicated digital search and distribution team. Our experts can deliver innovative and engaging images for all global sporting tournaments and events within minutes of capture to use across all your channels, helping you to build revenue and invaluable relationships.

Since 2013 scoreandchange.com offers insightful stories, case studies and analyses to people interested in sports business. Founded by Youvale van Dijk – owner of YD Sports Desk – the website touches upon topics such as (digital) sports marketing, fan engagement, sponsorship and sports startups. Readers can also find an overview of sports business conferences and major sports events on the website.

French site specialising in sports marketing news. Our motivation? Highlight the best activation's of sports marketing while providing decryption with interviews.