The news that Arsenal has signed a global partnership with Meta, bringing Facebook and WhatsApp further into the club’s commercial and fan engagement engine, is more than just another football sponsorship. It is a reminder that communications platforms have always sought cultural distribution to accelerate network effects. We have seen this before. In the early … Read more
The business of sponsoring college sports used to be relatively straightforward. You wrote a check, aligned your brand with a program or championship, activated around game day, and measured success in eyeballs and affinity. Today, that model feels almost quaint. What’s replaced it is a fragmented, fast-moving, and increasingly risky landscape where marketers, lawyers, athletes, … Read more
I’ve been going to Montpeyroux for thirty years. Long before most wine writers knew how to spell it. Long before the natural wine crowd discovered it. Long before the scores caught up to what the glass was already telling you. In 2007 Helene Malabed and I were married there. 100 people gathered, some local, some … Read more
When Main Street Sports Group announced it was shuttering the FanDuel Sports Network RSNs, the immediate reaction was predictable: hand-wringing about the death of regional sports networks, some schadenfreude from cord-cutting advocates, and a lot of confusion from fans wondering where they will watch their teams next season. But if you take a step back, … Read more
The standalone AI meeting notetaker had a good run. But the runway just got a lot shorter. Zoom unveiled agentic AI capabilities in February 2026, including My Notes and Personal Workflows, shifting from reactive support to proactive intelligence. In March, Zoom expanded its enterprise agentic AI platform with workflow orchestration that turns meetings, calls, and … Read more
The FCC just did something that should make every sports league executive, streaming platform, and broadcast network sit up and pay attention. And yet, I’m not sure most people realize just how significant this moment actually is. Here’s what happened: the FCC’s Media Bureau opened a public comment period examining the migration of live sports … Read more
Over the past two decades of writing here, one thing I’ve tried to do is look past the headline and into the pattern. The press loves a good horse race. I prefer to watch the track conditions. Right now, everyone wants to frame AI as model vs. model. Faster. Bigger. Smarter. More parameters. More funding. … Read more
Granola, Hedy, and Timeless by timeOS — and what together they reveal about where ambient meeting intelligence is actually heading. I’ve been running back-to-back calls for decades. Client pitches, investor briefings, media interviews, strategy sessions. For most of that time, the best tool I had was a legal pad and the ability to write fast. … Read more
There’s a difference between ringing the bell on Wall Street and ringing the bell to change Wall Street. If the reports in the Wall Street Journal are directionally right, what Elon Musk is contemplating with a SpaceX IPO isn’t about liquidity. It’s not about ego. And it’s certainly not about needing capital in the traditional … Read more
I have to admit, when I first heard about this, I could not stop laughing. Over St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2026, an AI agent named Rachel made more than 3,000 phone calls to pubs across Ireland. She had one simple question: How much is a pint of Guinness? Only a handful of people realized they … Read more
