The Press Conference Podcast
A sports media podcast focusing on the best of social media, press, marketing, commercial and PR at clubs and organisations. There is a strong community of sporting minds in the creative industry and in this series, Dan Simmonite speaks to the expert individuals and extracts the story behind their role and the best practice in their field.
Episodes
11 episodes
Chris Payne - Football Brand Designer
Chris Payne is a football brand designer and is the man behind the Alfreton Town and Eastleigh FC badges. He is based in USA and tells the story of how he won his first football club client by presenting a rebrand to his local team via email.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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36:50
Kara Head - Social Media Manager at Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Kara runs the twitter feed for the renowned Bayer 04 Leverkusen English account. She has the distinction of working from New York and commutes only to the coffee shop as she is employed as a remote worker for the club. She speaks about the impo...
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Episode 9
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29:09
Jay Taylor - i2i International Soccer Academy
Jay Taylor is the Digital Media Manager for i2i International Soccer Academy and is just about the busiest man in football media, running multiple social media accounts; some of which you might have seen with the likes of 'All Orlando City' and...
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Episode 8
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31:26
Dean Davies - Freelance Sport Designer
Dean Davies has worked as a freelance sports designer for the likes of Squawka, Eleven Sports and the Football Association of Wales. He takes me through the best steps to learn photoshop, how to get paid clients when just starting out, and when...
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Episode 7
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29:58
John Gillespie - Irish Football Association
John Gillespie is the Digital Manager for the Irish Football Association (Northern Ireland) and speaks to me about his grounding in news reporting which helped his transition over to sport digital as well as an insight into how the relationship...
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Episode 6
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51:22
Luke Lambourne - Leyton Orient
Luke Lambourne is the newly-appointed Media Manager at Leyton Orient and is the man behind the viral #UltimateQuaranTeam FIFA competition which attracted reach of well above 100 million people as well as over 25,000 new twitter followers and gl...
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Episode 5
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40:20
Hal Boxhall-Dockree - Harrogate Town AFC
Hal Boxhall-Dockree is the Media Manager for National League side Harrogate Town and has been with the club through a transformation period which has seen a full rebrand and a promotion push to the Football League. He explains the rebranding pr...
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Episode 4
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34:37
Ben Towse - Hull City AFC
Ben Towse is the PR & Social Media Executive for Championship side Hull City and is best known for taking social media by storm with a tense game of Connect 4 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen. I chat with Ben about the backstory of the twitter m...
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Episode 3
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51:30
Gav Wilson - York City Knights
Gav Wilson is the Media Manager at York City Knights Rugby League club. On this podcast he takes me through a life-changing mountain bike accident which pushed him to pursue a course in Sports Journalism and a career in rugby media. We also spe...
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Episode 2
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41:22
