Touchline Activate

What we do

Touchline Activate is a strategic communications agency that makes sports partnerships matter. We help rights-holders make their commercial programmes more compelling to prospective partners, tell the story of their partnerships throughout the lifecycle, and equip commercial teams with the content and reporting they need to strengthen relationships and support renewals.
Attract

Attract

Communicate what makes your commercial programme distinctive and attractive to partners.

Amplify

Amplify

Raise the profile of your partnerships by telling their stories beyond launch.

Strengthen

Strengthen

Create communications that help build stronger partner relationships.

Prove

Prove

Demonstrate partnership value through data-led reporting.

Our Process

DiscoveryDeliveryStrategyRefine

We review your commercial objectives, partners, audiences and existing communications to identify gaps and opportunities.

We define the positioning, messages, audiences, stories and channels that will best support your commercial programme and partnerships.

We work as an extension of your commercial team to create and deliver the content, communications and reporting your programme and partners need.

We review what works, identify new opportunities and refine the approach as your commercial programme and partnerships evolve.

Who we are

We are a team of strategists, writers, editors, designers and digital communications specialists, combining creative expertise with a deep understanding of commercial partnerships in sport. We work as an extension of rights-holder commercial teams, providing specialist communications support throughout the partnership lifecycle.
Michael Stoneman

Michael Stoneman

As Managing Director of Touchline Activate, Michael draws on almost 20 years of experience helping leading international sports organisations communicate their stories and commercial partnerships.

As Managing Director of Touchline Activate, Michael draws on almost 20 years of experience helping leading international sports organisations communicate their stories and commercial partnerships.

With a background in sports journalism, Michael has reported from every edition of the Olympic Games since 2010, interviewing athletes, sports leaders and senior executives from some of the world’s biggest sponsors.

Having worked closely with commercial and communications teams throughout his career, he brings a deep understanding of how partnerships work, what they contribute to sport and how best to tell their stories.