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The highlights of my 2016
It’s that time of year where we all look back on the year just passed, and look ahead to next year.
JDG Sport Shorts #2
In the latest sport shorts, we look at media embargoes, postcode woe and a great idea for sport sponsorship.
JDG Sport Shorts #1
In a new series, every fortnight we’ll bring you a few sport shorts based around what we come across in the industry both working for our clients and publications.
This week – journalists leaving the industry to work for clubs, a one-way working relationship and watching a game live from your bedroom window…
Five things we can learn from working in sport
It’s sometimes easy to forget the life lessons that you can get from working in sport.
It only occurred to me recently when someone asked me what makes a successful sports team, and how those theories could be applied to my own life – both personally and in business.
Being part of a winning team
Our hometown club Warrington Town secured the most prestigious league title in their history and with it promotion to the seventh tier of the football pyramid at the weekend.
Frustration with Getty Images’ positive move to solve photo dilemmas
After realising they were fighting a losing battle over bloggers and smaller publishers robbing their images, Getty Images made a bold move to make a library of images available as free to use.
With seemingly infinite pages of content across the web, almost all furnished by an image, it was becoming an increasingly fruitless chase for Getty to protect their images from misuse, and of course the legal costs and challenges that it was presenting.
Helping Football Manager set a world record – #FM100 challenge
JDG answered an SOS from the National Football Museum to take part in their #FM100 challenge – a Guinness World Record attempt involving the Football Manager Touch 2016 game.
Featured in the museum’s ‘Pitch to Pixel: The World of Football Gaming’ exhibition, the challenge involves 100 different managers playing the game on the same save, for at least an hour each, over 100 days.
