011 - John Wirtz - Hudl Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder

In this episode Hudl Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, John Wirtz, discusses how their industry leading video and data analytics platform is helping over 160,000 teams worldwide improve and win.

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VALUE BOMBS

• Video is at the core for Hudl. The Value Hudl brings to market is in four categories; tools to help teams and organizations prepare for the next game, helping teams or players improve performance over time, helping teams and athletes promote themselves (i.e. recruiting highlights), building talent pipelines (helping teams find and evaluate talent).
• Hudl has global reach and works with 35 different sports.
• Hudl thinks of their products offering competitive advantage in three layers; video and data capture, analysis, communication and distribution.
• Hudl has invested heavily in Hudl Academy for helping user learn how to use Hudl for all supported sports (link provide below).
• Important for teams to have a defined and consistent process for building packages of desired information they want from Hudl.
• For those seeking career in sports analytics do these things. Get connected to a great organization or team and listen to the tough questions’ coaches are asking about opponent or themselves. Get connected into the sports analytics community (MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference). Building communications skills.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Hudl
• Hudl Academy
• MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

SPONSORS

• Analytics4Coaches – Basketball Coach Training Courses
• Terry L Frederick - Sports Analytics Consulting & Career Coaching