One year of Short Corner Media: The wins, the learnings & World Cup fever ⚽️

2025 was our first full year running Short Corner Media.

It was quite a year. We learned a lot about working outside corporate walls. We enjoyed the flexibility of working independently, handpicking interesting projects, and collaborating with great people.

Here a few goals we did score in 2025:

✅ OKC For Soccer — Managed all the marketing and PR for one of the most ambitious soccer projects in the country. A year of careful community building with club president Court Jeske culminated with the launch of the 1910 Founders Club in December. Result? 2,000+ season ticket deposits in just 5 days for a team that doesn't play for two years.

✅ "MLS Field Notes" — Reconnected with longtime collaborator Calen Carr to produce “Field Notes" for Major League Soccer & Coca-Cola — a social-first video series designed to capture what’s special about American soccer culture.

✅ "Summer of 94" — Consulted on the upcoming film about the 1994 World Cup with Copper Pot Pictures, Delirio Films, and Imagine Entertainment & Television.

✅ Inswinger Clothing — Our biggest "outside-the-comfort-zone" project. We learned about everything from DTG printing to tariffs. It’s a work in progress with our friend GianMarco Pascarella, and we have some new ideas for 2026.

We also experimented with AI-generated videos, e-commerce websites, and new social engagement tools — while balancing these with IRL activations like fan meet-ups and raising a flagpole in OKC. Because tech only gets you part of the way there. The fundamental power of soccer is its ability to connect us. Soccer fandom is a feeling, not a transaction.

Huge thanks to everyone not previously mentioned who is on this journey with us, particularly, Nan Vogel, Billy Walton, Kyle Green, Galina Plutova, Dave LaMattina, Chad Walker, Dave Williams, CLUBELEVEN, and Digital Ignite.

What’s next? Well, it's a World Cup year. We’ve already got some World Cup projects in the works — and we’re looking to collaborate on more of them.

Let’s go! ⚽️