Racing and sports betting media platform with B2B content, data and retail solutions
Spotlight Sports Group operates across consumer media (Racing Post, Pickswise, Free Super Tips) and B2B solutions for operators and affiliates, combining legacy print heritage with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Terraform). The tech stack reveals a marketing-first organization: Braze, Segment, Looker, and Meta/X/TikTok dominate the active project list, while hiring is concentrated in marketing (6 of 9 open roles) at mid-to-senior level. Current friction around data pipelines and CRM personalization suggests the company is scaling marketing automation faster than internal data infrastructure can support.
Spotlight Sports Group is a UK-based media and technology company operating in racing and sports betting since 1986. The business spans two parallel tracks: consumer-facing brands (Racing Post newspaper and digital, Pickswise, myracing, Free Super Tips) that aggregate content, tips, and analysis for fans, and B2B products (Superfeed content engine, Halo live streaming, Spotlight iQ AI insights, retail displays) sold to operators, affiliates, and media partners. The company maintains significant retail presence through Racing Post print editions and betting shop digital displays. A 40+ person marketing organization is actively managing affiliate campaigns, live social content production, and CRM lifecycle automation across UK and Ireland markets, while an international marketing agency (ICS-digital, ICS-translate) extends campaigns across 80+ languages.
Core infrastructure: AWS, Linux, Docker, ECS, Terraform, Ansible. Development: Python, Go, Groovy, GitLab, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket. Analytics and marketing: Snowflake, Looker, Segment, Braze, Datadog, Grafana. Social and creative: Meta, TikTok, X, Adobe, InDesign.
Affiliate marketing for racing events, live social race coverage, personalized CRM campaigns via Braze, paid social across Meta/X/TikTok, Looker/Braze reporting, automated marketing workflows, and third-party partnerships across Racing Post channels.
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