What Is ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Doing to Soccer?
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What Is ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Doing to Soccer?
Today, most successful characters exist as intellectual property owned by a single corporation. This means that fans don’t have any governance, let alone direct ownership, of these characters, limiting them to being only passive consumers of the products and narratives that the corporation decides to create. Even if fans buy public equity in the co... See more
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • “Fantasy Hollywood” — Crypto and Community-Owned Characters - a16z crypto
Thus, as the cable-tv-dominated status quo crumbles, pro sports will develop a new playbook, centered around better telling player stories. Players will also have more opportunity to tell and sell these stories themselves, direct-to-consumer:
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Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa, calls this idea “fantasy Hollywood,” drawing an analogy to fantasy football. The model turns fans into active participants, and in this case they are actually in the game, not imagining it.
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Fans have long been stuck on the sidelines of their favorite sporting events. The team/player to fan relationship is limited to league scheduling, event organizing and physical structures. Fans have long driven the value of their favorite leagues and teams but always at arm's length, leasing these experiences versus owning them. But with blockchain... See more