{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"upside","title":"[REWIND] Opendorse // pioneering athlete-driven marketing [RE002]","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5139,"description":"Today is the second episode in our December series called “Rewind.” \r\n\r\nBlake Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Opendorse.\r\n\r\nWe first talked with Blake back in April 2019, and our episode aired on July 17, 2019.\r\n\r\nSince that time, Opendorse has grown a lot. They’ve not only raised a Series A, but just this week they announced a partnership with Team USA. \r\n\r\nOpendorse is the athlete-marketing platform that helps the biggest brands in sports share content on social. Founded by two former major college athletes, Opendorse was built seeking to make it easy for athletes and their partners to work together to engage their fans. Today, more than 7,000 athletes use Opendorse to share content with their 1.4b social media followers.\r\n\r\nTop sports properties including the PGA TOUR, LPGA, NFLPA, WTA, and New Jersey Devils, and college properties including Michigan, Clemson, and Nebraska Athletics partner with Opendorse to send content to athletes to share through their social media channels. More than 1,500 brands also use opendorse to engage professional athletes and their audience.\r\n\r\nLearn more about Opendorse: https://opendorse.com/ \r\nFollow Blake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blake_Lawrence \r\n\r\nFollow upside on Twitter: https://twitter.com/upsidefm \r\nAdvertise with an upside classified: https://upside.fm/classifieds ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qhlBwGFVyVQpTQUPz91SL_FZ9LxsieuifdWQEs8peZY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzkxLzE2MDU2MzQx/MjktYXJ0d29yay5q/cGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}