A Guy With A Scarf
Research Hub
I do a lot of research as an enabler to my work as an advisor, and to inform my views on the tech, the product and the market.
Sometimes it is just for me and not shareable, either for confidentiality or for quality. Not good or useful to anybody else.
Sometimes it reaches a level of relevancy that, while nowhere near what research companies or serious analysts produce, may still be of value to a broader audience. So I decided to build this hub and share those.
The season on YouTube so far: 106 days
Six pages built from the YouTube Football Tracker. One sets the five leagues side by side, who is biggest, who earns most per video and which lengths travel furthest, and one page per league goes club by club: who publishes, who gets watched, who goes quiet, and the biggest videos of the season so far.
October 2026IBC2026 vendor scan: Streaming, live sport and AI
One hundred companies that pitched or exhibited around IBC2026, scored against AI, streaming, sport and live sport, cross-referenced against the official Hall 5 exhibitor list.
Alongside it, every source the scan was built from, what each one was used for, and the three attempts that failed.
September 2026Automated match video Work in progress
Twenty-three systems that record, produce and distribute a match with nobody behind the camera: the capture device, the automatic production, the platform, and the layer that decides who pays. Youth, amateur, semi-pro and academy football, read from Italy.
Alongside it, an essay on why the technology is cheap and works and the match still stays on the pitch, and the sources every record rests on.
September 2026My other projects
Interactive sport experiences
Sport is data, and data can be beautiful. Independent fan projects built from official feeds: a World Cup you can walk through match by match, a tennis season told one player at a time, a Formula 1 year read lap by lap.
F1 · Tennis · Football · NFL · NBA · NHL · World Cup · Golf · AthleticsYouTube Football Tracker
How football clubs actually perform on YouTube: over a hundred of them across Europe's top five leagues, tracked daily. Recaps of the day's most-watched videos, season trends and all-time leaderboards.
Live · free with registrationCourse · paid
Becoming a better B2B tech vendor
Twelve lessons in four movements, plus a two-hundred-page companion book. What I have learned from the vendor side of sports and media technology, from positioning and pricing to how buying decisions actually get made. Yours for life.
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