Sports & Entertainment

Your fans moved to DTC. Your agency didn't.

Cord-cutting reshaped distribution. Second-screen behavior changed engagement forever. Global rights deals demand market-by-market precision. And most agencies are still buying media like it's 2017. We built FTF to operate at the speed sports and entertainment actually move.

The Problem

Sports marketing is a different animal. Most agencies don't get it.

PROBLEM 01

Media Rights Windows Don't Wait for Your Campaign Calendar

Fight cards, draft nights, season openers — buying windows open and close in 48 hours. Agencies built for annual planning cycles miss them entirely. Rights exclusivity, blackout rules, and broadcast obligations require a different operating model.

PROBLEM 02

Your Global Markets Are Being Treated Like One Market

Every territory has different platform dominance, regulatory frameworks, and cultural context. Running the same creative in Lagos and London doesn't just underperform — it leaves serious ROI on the table in both.

PROBLEM 03

Event Spikes Require Speed Your Current Agency Can't Match

Fight weekends, playoff runs, transfer windows — spend needs to ramp 10x in 72 hours and pull back by Monday. Most media teams aren't structured to move at the pace sports actually moves.

PROBLEM 04

Sponsors Are Asking Hard Questions You Can't Answer Yet

Courtside LED to streaming signup. Jersey patch to app download. When sponsors demand proof that activations drove real business outcomes, most teams don't have the attribution infrastructure to show it.

How FTF Solves It

AI-native infrastructure
built for the pace of live sports.

We didn't bolt AI onto an agency model. We rebuilt media buying, creative production, and attribution from the ground up around machine learning. The result: a system that operates at event speed, across every market, with full-funnel visibility.

01

Real-Time Event-Driven Media Buying

Our AI models detect event-driven demand signals and scale spend in real time. Fight night, trade deadline, season launch: budgets shift within hours, not weeks. When the moment passes, we pull back automatically. No manual intervention. No wasted spend between tentpoles.

02

Market-by-Market Localization at Scale

We run localized campaigns across 60+ territories simultaneously. That means market-specific creative, platform selection, bid strategy, and compliance handling. Our AI handles the combinatorial complexity that makes multi-market execution impossible for traditional teams to do well.

03

Fan Acquisition Funnel Engineering

We map the full journey from casual viewer to DTC subscriber to merchandise buyer. Second-screen engagement, streaming platform onboarding, loyalty program enrollment: each touchpoint is instrumented and optimized. Not just awareness. Conversion. Retention. LTV.

04

Sponsorship Attribution That Holds Up

We connect sponsorship activations to downstream revenue using multi-touch attribution models purpose-built for sports. Courtside placement to app install. Broadcast integration to PPV buy. Your sponsors get real numbers, not media value estimates pulled from thin air.

Proof, Not Promises

Results from the
biggest stages in sports.

Industry Landscape

The numbers shaping
sports marketing right now.

$78B
Global sports streaming market projected by 2028, up from $41B in 2023. The DTC transition isn't coming. It's here.
67%
Of Gen Z sports fans engage via second-screen during live events. If your media strategy doesn't account for dual-attention, you're reaching half the audience.
$35B
Spent annually on sports sponsorship activations globally. Yet fewer than 15% of brands report confidence in their activation ROI measurement.
4.2×
Higher conversion rates on event-day media buys vs. always-on campaigns. Timing isn't a nice-to-have in sports. It's the entire game.

Your competitors
aren't waiting.

Every major league, federation, and entertainment property is rethinking how they acquire and monetize fans. The gap between AI-native and legacy agency performance is widening by the quarter. Let's talk before your next tentpole event.

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