@CDM

Advisor. C-suite. Sports&Media tech since 1987. Ex-CTO/CPO/CMO. Innovation, digital, OTT, AI/ML. Futurist, Public speaker. A guy with a scarf.

 Torino, Italy
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Joined August 2007
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Questions I Am Taking to IBC 2026 linkedin.com/pulse/10-questiā€¦ via @LinkedIn

10 Questions I Am Taking to IBC 2026

A Guy With A Scarf IBC opens at the RAI in Amsterdam on 11 September. Every year, before I get on the plane, I write down the questions I actually want answered, the ones I will put to people over...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Things to Consider About Streaming the World Cup linkedin.com/pulse/10-thingsā€¦ via @LinkedIn

10 Things to Consider About Streaming the World Cup

It took me some weeks to figure out what happened in streaming during last month an a half for the World Cup, and I am talking not everything else which filled the media cycle beyond the core sport...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Ep. 59: Gabriella Vacca - International Executive in Telco and Streaming - Movement Is Life linkedin.com/pulse/ep-59-gabā€¦ via @LinkedIn

Ep. 59: Gabriella Vacca - International Executive in Telco and Streaming - Movement Is Life

Thirty years from Olivetti, to the USA, to SKY, and what must change when your team becomes too large to know everyone by name Gabriella Vacca and I studied computer engineering together in Turin,...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Everyone Is Removing AI While Shipping AI, and What ā€œMade with AIā€ Really Means linkedin.com/pulse/everyone-ā€¦ via @LinkedIn

Everyone Is Removing AI While Shipping AI, and What ā€œMade with AIā€ Really Means

Spotify and LinkedIn are cleaning up AI content while launching new AI-based tools. Substack is betting the other way.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Ep. 58: Dani Markovits - Must Watch LinkedIn Expert on the Platform's Credibility Shift & Sport linkedin.com/pulse/ep-58-danā€¦ via @LinkedIn

Ep. 58: Dani Markovits - Must Watch LinkedIn Expert on the Platform's Credibility Shift & Sport

The Shake Content CCO on the platformā€™s credibility shift, why athletes are finally moving in, and why the person now carries the brand For episode 58 of A guy with a scarf summer edition, I spoke...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Things to Consider: Sky Buys ITV. The UK Broadcast Map Just Got Redrawn. linkedin.com/pulse/10-thingsā€¦ via @LinkedIn

10 Things to Consider: Sky Buys ITV. The UK Broadcast Map Just Got Redrawn.

How I read it? There is such a level of agitation in the global media industry that it's either a signal of high energy and opportunity ( I doubt it) or a delayed check with reality coming home. Dana...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Proposal: A VAR decisions section on every fifa.com match page linkedin.com/pulse/proposal-ā€¦ via @LinkedIn

FIFA | The Home of Football

The home of football across the globe, FIFA bring you the very latest tournament news, player exclusives and live match content all in one place.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Things to Consider About Fox and Roku linkedin.com/pulse/10-thingsā€¦ via @LinkedIn

10 Things to Consider About Fox and Roku

Fox is paying $22 billion to own the home screen. The full deal, my read, the European angle, and what it means for vendors in our industry.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: YTFT Now Tracks All 48 World Cup Teams On YouTube, Who Will Win The Content Game? linkedin.com/pulse/ytft-now-ā€¦ via @LinkedIn

YTFT Now Tracks All 48 World Cup Teams On YouTube, Who Will Win The Content Game?

The YouTube Football Tracker now covers the official channels of all 48 qualified teams, FIFA and the six confederations: 62 channels, snapshotted daily through the tournament The YouTube Football...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Things to Consider: Sports Tech and Media at the FIFA World Cup 2026 linkedin.com/pulse/10-thingsā€¦ via @LinkedIn

10 Things to Consider: Sports Tech and Media at the FIFA World Cup 2026

Officiating, broadcast rights, streaming, platform deals and AI, all running in public across 104 matches. Read the tournament as a map of where the business of sport is heading.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: One-Hit Wonders: what happens when a single club video swallows a whole season linkedin.com/pulse/one-hit-wā€¦ via @LinkedIn

One-Hit Wonders: what happens when a single club video swallows a whole season

Which club video has been worth an entire season of uploads? YTFT did the math, and the answer is mostly LaLiga. Iā€™ve been building a web app called YouTube Football Tracker, or YTFT, at https://ytft.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Things to Consider: FIFA Packaged a Gaming Ecosystem Two Weeks Before Kickoff linkedin.com/pulse/10-thingsā€¦ via @LinkedIn

10 Things to Consider: FIFA Packaged a Gaming Ecosystem Two Weeks Before Kickoff

From one EA partnership to a seven-partner ecosystem spanning Roblox, Konami, Netflix and more, FIFA has reframed its place in football gaming on the eve of the World Cup. My son Miles is eleven and...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: What 45 minutes with LALIGA, Bundesliga and Sportradar told me about data and live sport in 2026 linkedin.com/pulse/what-45-mā€¦ via @LinkedIn

What 45 minutes with LALIGA, Bundesliga and Sportradar told me about data and live sport in 2026

Notes from the SportsPro Insider Series with Rebeca DĆ­az Gonzalez, Dennis Galejski, and Mark Holland Yesterday I moderated the SportsPro Insider Series webinar with Rebeca DĆ­az Gonzalez from LALIGA,...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: LIVE with SportsPro (La Liga, Bundesliga, Sportradar) at 4pm CET: Data, fans, and what live sport looks like in 2026 linkedin.com/pulse/live-sporā€¦ via @LinkedIn

LIVE with SportsPro (La Liga, Bundesliga, Sportradar) at 4pm CET: Data, fans, and what live sport...

SportsPro Insider Series Webinar: Engage, grow, monetise: The data-driven approach to sports media in 2026 Date: Wednesday 27 May, 3:00 pm BST / 4:00 pm CET / 10:00 am EDT Duration: 45 minutes...

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[ITALIAN] Sto aspettando daa 10 giorni che ENI mi contatti per risolvere il dual account per eni multicard - non riesco ad usare le colonnine di ricarica... non ho piu' accesso all'meail corporate ma loro non hanno un sistema self service per risolvere. Altro che software SaaS con AI...
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: šŸ“™ BOOK: 10 Things To Consider is now available on Kindle. linkedin.com/pulse/book-10-tā€¦ via @LinkedIn

šŸ“™ BOOK: 10 Things To Consider is now available on Kindle.

šŸ“™ 200 pages. 51 working lists across 10 categories.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 16 May 1976, and the neighbourhood heard the Toro anthem linkedin.com/pulse/16-may-19ā€¦ via @LinkedIn

16 May 1976, and the neighbourhood heard the Toro anthem

A team, city, and personal story about Toro 50 years ago today My father Piero De Marchis was at the Stadio Comunale that afternoon, like every Sunday. Staff photographer for La Stampa, camera around...

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Just got a new @LynkCo_Auto 08 in Italy with long term renting by @ayvens_group through @GinoAuto Torino See my notes here reddit.com/r/LynkCo/commentsā€¦

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Things to Consider After the 2026 NAB Streaming Summit linkedin.com/pulse/10-thingsā€¦ via @LinkedIn

10 Things to Consider After the 2026 NAB Streaming Summit

Notes from someone who wasnā€™t in the room. Two years ago I was on stage at the NAB Streaming Summit in Vegas, doing my bit while the show floor pulsed in the background and operators argued about...

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