Sports

Growing attendance across football, golf, cricket, combat sport and fan zones. We are experiential marketing specialists, bringing that expertise into sport to build new audiences around fixtures.

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Leaders in the festivalisation of sports

Women's football
Golf
Boxing
Cricket
Sportainment leagues
Fan zones
Major tournaments
Athletics

mustard helps drive predictable growth in matchday tickets, season tickets, fan zones and sports viewing experiences. We bring an experience-first marketing approach into the sports economy across cricket, football, golf, boxing and more; both inside stadiums and in new spaces. We help grow attendances for legacy clubs, as well as bringing new disruptive formats into the market.

TESTIMONIALS
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Thanks to mustard’s strategic guidance and media plan support, we shifted our mindset to attract new audiences. We achieved record attendance at Villa Park and the lessons learned will have a lasting impact on future campaigns.
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Gavin Forbes

Head of Marketing, Aston Villa Women
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Their breadth of events knowledge translated perfectly to connect the city through sport. Their end-to-end strategy helped us reach a new and diverse audience and resulted in the highest increase in fan attendance across the competition.
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Chris Airey

Head of Marketing, Birmingham Phoenix
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mustard provided an expert strategy for our large scale sport events with a high-profile Premier League client. Their insight, bringing new ideas and gaining an impressive ROI, made them an invaluable cornerstone of our marketing.
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David Norris

Founder, beyond 90
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It was great to work with the team on the launch of a new concept. Delighted with over 20,000 tickets for a brand new fan zone!
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Mark Abbott

Promoter, Road To Victory
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FAQS

Got questions? We'd love to chat.

We're a large club with commercial, ticketing and marketing teams. Where do you fit?

Between them, usually. Attendance growth from new audiences tends to fall in the gap between ticketing (who own the transaction) and marketing (who owns the brand). We own your ticket sales growth by focusing on marketing the experience, finding new audiences and ticket buyers and hitting your commercial targets. We plug into whichever team owns each part. We are well versed in procurement, board reporting and multi-stakeholder sign-off.

Do you replace our team or work alongside it?

Alongside. Clubs always have sporting content and ongoing fan relationship covered better than any agency could. We own your growth stratey and performance execution as a layer on top of your business-as-usual marketing. What is usually missing is the discipline of growing attendees by continually targeting new fans and retaining them, which is a different job to communicating with supporters or casual online fans. 

Do you only focus on matchday ticket sales?

We help drive both matchday attendance as well as sports viewing or experiential formats around major tournaments. 

Can you help us reach families and younger fans?

Yes, we are uniquely well placed to bring this experience into sports and sporttainment marketing. We have extensive experience in growing attendances for the biggest family festivals and experiences in Europe, as well as extensive market knowledge and case studies in promoting experiences to Gen Z, students, and young professionals.

What does success look like, and how do you measure it?

Uplifts in attendance, and where it came from. Tickets sold tells you less than the split between people who already buy from you and people who never had. New audience share is what shows whether a crowd is growing or just rotating. Alongside that we track repeat rate across a season, because the value of a first visit sits entirely in whether it produces a second.

Our core services

Growth Partnerships

Explore Growth Partnerships

We build structured, year-round growth strategies for experience brands. Our Growth Partnerships operate at the intersection of brand, audience and commercial discipline. We strategise milestone campaigns whilst also building the systems and infrastructure you need to drive predictable booking revenue. Work with a specialist senior strategy team to hold your brand goals, ticket sales and bookings targets accountable. 

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Performance & Intelligence

Explore Performance & Intelligence

Our Performance Suite combines hands on paid media execution with peformance creative & intelligence across paid channels and email as one connected system for experience brands. Our performance is built on our Experience Economics approach, born from our own operator-led experience and commercial discipline. Every channel is briefed from the same booker intelligence and booker journey mapping.

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