West Ham VP Queenie Porter on the WSL’s billion dollar future
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Back in February, West Ham Women’s Vice President and Managing Director of Wow Hydrate Queenie Porter said that she thinks women’s football will one day become bigger commercially than the men’s game.
Today, Chloe and Rachel sit down with her to explore a bit more about why she thinks that. Queenie also gives fascinating insight into the importance of separating men’s and women’s football when it comes to brand partnerships and how she believes NewCo can help expand the women’s game. Plus, we hear her thoughts on Chloe’s new nickname for Sarina Wiegman…
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| 0:48.9 | studio for another interview and this is a woman we've been excited about Chassing 2 for a while now. |
| 0:55.2 | Queenie Porter has a unique position in the WSL as both the managing director of |
| 1:00.1 | Wow Hydrate, a sports drink which has partnered with Manchester United. |
| 1:04.6 | And if that wasn't enough, Vice President of West Ham women, she understands both sides |
| 1:09.8 | of the WSL's commercial growth and its challenges. But Queenie thinks that the |
| 1:14.6 | women's game will one day generate more money than the men's game. |
| 1:18.9 | Whoo! All day for that! All day! So today we're going to dig into that a little bit more and |
| 1:25.3 | really understand the commercial landscape of women's football right now |
| 1:28.4 | with one of the people who knows it best. Queenie also has some interesting thoughts about fans, match day experience and of course |
| 1:35.6 | NUCO. So stay tuned, what are the protocols for... us. It was really lovely just in the sort of lead up to getting on air. |
| 1:53.2 | Queen he said, what are the protocols for this interview? |
| 1:56.0 | And Rachel kindly reminded her that she wasn't to look at me in the direction of me |
| 2:00.2 | when she's responding to her answers. |
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