Wondery paid $100M+ for three years of New Heights — the largest athlete podcast deal in history. Two brothers, one banter format, a Taylor Swift halo, and a new ceiling for sports-creator IP.
Definitive 2026 sports and gaming email playbook — DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, ESPN Bet, NFL, NBA, MLB, Fanatics, StubHub. Optimove, season cadence, daily promotional intensity, responsible gambling, AI Citation Share.
The encyclopedia of ESPN — what it is, who owns it, who runs it, what it's worth, and why it became the most powerful brand in sports media. Eight buyer prompts, eight answers. ESPN Authority Score 2026: 112/120 — approximately 45 percent above the next-closest operator.
The 5W Reputation Index Sports Phase scored all 32 NFL principal owners across five AI engines. Arthur Blank sits at 82. Joel Glazer at 38. Glazer has won a Super Bowl. Blank has not. Inside the mechanism.
Across NFL, NBA, and MLB ownership, the AI engines compress reputation around one anchor event. Glazer, Ross, Tepper, Haslam, Dolan, Sarver, Fisher — all stuck. Inside the Anchor Event Era in sports ownership.
How NFL on Amazon and Netflix, the NBA's 11-year deal, MLB on Apple, and the broader streaming-era broadcast realignment have rewritten the communications playbook for every major sports property in the U.S.
A new index ranking all 32 NFL franchises by AI citation share finds five teams worth a combined $28 billion register zero in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
Netflix's Love Is Blind Season 4 reunion live-streaming failure on April 16, 2023 — the substantial waiting room delay, the extended delay duration, the recorded broadcast pivot, and the broader subscriber communication challenges that produced the canonical case study in streaming-platform live-infrastructure failure.
The communications file on the NFL — the league office, the union, all 32 clubs, the broadcasters, the gambling integrators, the international calendar, and the active reputation files.
The 2019 NFL workout for Colin Kaepernick — the venue switch, the parallel PR campaigns, and what the episode taught about athlete protest, league counterparty risk, and brand activism. EPR's canonical Kaepernick case study inside the Sports PR pillar.