Future of Sports Pt. 1
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In episode one of the Future of Sports series, The Athletic's Mike Smeltz looks at how the fan experience may change: how going to games, watching games at home and how memorabilia is shifting from physical to digital.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our two-part series here on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:16.4 | I am Mike Smeltz, and throughout this series, we will dive deep into the cutting edge of sports. |
| 0:21.6 | How technology is changing the way the games are being played and watched. |
| 0:26.1 | In this episode, we'll focus on the fan experience. |
| 0:29.0 | The ticket buying process has changed from a static experience to something more akin to signing |
| 0:33.8 | up for a membership at a country club. |
| 0:36.1 | Fans today only have two options. |
| 0:38.6 | They can buy season tickets or they can brave the Wild Wild West, |
| 0:43.4 | which is trying to navigate resold tickets from brokers and scalpers. |
| 0:47.5 | And I think what we provide is a very unique alternative. |
| 0:51.1 | For fans at home, leagues are increasingly investing in alternative broadcasts to tailor |
| 0:56.5 | presentations for all types of fans. |
| 0:59.2 | The tech element is huge. |
| 1:00.4 | You don't need satellite trucks outside of Peyton Manning's house or outside of Elon |
| 1:04.4 | Manning's house. |
| 1:05.4 | It comes off like a television product, like a traditional linear product. |
| 1:08.8 | And the coin process of buying some baseball cards has gone virtual with the incredible |
| 1:14.1 | innovations of NFTs. |
| 1:16.0 | Boy, an easy way to explain NFTs. |
| 1:19.0 | It's like, hey, show me a picture of the lock-mast monster. |
| 1:22.8 | On this episode, you'll hear from each of those experts on how the fan experience is changing and will |
| 1:28.7 | continue to change in the future. First up is Chris Giles, CEO of Fan Rally, a unique company |
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