Bridging the chasm.
Positioning brands for cultural relevance. Brand, D2C, eComm, partnerships, creative content & campaigns, data and commercial. I've done it from inside rights holders, the platforms trying to monetise them and brands.
Brands I've worked with
Trusted by rights holders and Fortune 500 brands across the globe.
Joe Edwards, BSc || FIDM || mCIM.
Award-winning marketing and brand leader across sport, lifestyle and entertainment.
Building brands fans actually want to follow, then the commercial propositions, media valuations and first-party data that turn that following into revenue. As the rights holder building fandom, inside the platforms trying to monetise it and brands.
Imagination and graft, in equal measure: the idea that earns a fan's attention, and the work it takes to prove it worked.
Brand and culture are the headline. Data is what makes it convert.
Services
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Strategy & Brand
Brand positioning and repositioning, backed by the multi-channel marketing strategy that turns it into real impact.
1B+ global reach, FIBA “This Is My House”+14pt NPS, BBL rebrand -
Culture & Fandom
Content and campaigns fans actually care about: athlete storytelling, creator partnerships that turns audiences into community.
19M impressions, General Tire Dunk Contest, The O25.3M video views, General Tire Dunk Contest, The O2 -
Digital Transformation
AI-led CRM, CDP and segmentation that actually know your fans, not just log them: personalisation at scale, and the insight commercial teams need to sell.
+18% subscribers, NFL Game Pass$1M media spend saved, NFL Game Pass -
Commercial & Media IP
D2C, eComm, sponsorship, partnerships, creator networks and media IP propositions that turn audience and data into revenue.
Millions in revenue built across multiple rights holders -
Event Marketing
Activations built for the room and the feed: takeovers, stunts, product launches and ticketing.
Sell-out events and seasonal revenue growth across multiple rights holders -
People & Performance
Motivated proactive teams: organisational structure, leadership, coaching, plus the systems and frameworks that keep score.
Awarded Marketing Team of the Year
Insights
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Notes on fandom, first-party data and the commercial model, written from the rights-holder seat and the platform seat.
All insights
Ventures
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Venture Limits Are Fiction Streetwear, zine and field tools for the not done yet. Most limits are taught. Some are inherited. None are fixed. Visit Limits Are Fiction ↗ -
Venture Windsor Warriors Grassroots youth basketball club, around 120 children playing from U10 to U18, based south west of London. Waarrrrriorssss come out to playyyy! Visit Windsor Warriors ↗ -
Venture WOOOBA Create and organise your own basketball and football pickup games. Find your court, pitch, park, game. Find your people. Visit WOOOBA ↗