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Licensing / co-brand · Los Angeles Dodgers → target #1 of 8

Mitchell & Ness

A premium heritage brand offering authentic, high-quality reproduction sports apparel for fans and streetwear enthusiasts.

Founded 1904 · Parent: Fanatics · Competes with New Era, Starter, Champion, Nike · Partnerships: NBA, MLB, NFL

Corporate details are Qloo entity data.

Advance
68.5F / 100
95% of the weighted evidence measured

Why this verdict

F 68.5 >= 67 and no red flags.

Scores, flags and verdicts are computed in code. The agents can only argue with the ledger; they never set the score.

Six audience metrics

Bar = this target; tick = shortlist average.

m1 Two-way audience affinity
0.80
Harmonic mean of the buyer audience’s affinity for the target and the target audience’s affinity for the buyer’s brands.
m2 Taste-profile overlap
0.35
Rank-weighted overlap of the two audiences’ top-50 cultural taste tags.
m3 Cross-domain agreement
0.89
How strongly the target’s audience embraces the buyer audience’s favourite artists, shows, films and podcasts.
m4 Demographic alignment
0.91
Similarity of the two audiences’ age and gender over-index profiles.
m5 Geographic footprint
0.33
Correlation of metro-level audience affinity, relative to the screened cohort.
m6 Momentum not measured
n/a
Trending rank change over the last 4 weeks vs the 8 before, relative to the cohort.
Qloo's trending series did not move for this brand or the cohort in the 12 weeks to 2026-10-23, so momentum is not measurable for this window.

How F is built

Points each metric adds (weights for Licensing / co-brand, renormalised over what Qloo could measure).

MetricWeightPoints
Two-way audience affinity0.3529.6
Taste-profile overlap0.103.7
Cross-domain agreement0.2018.7
Demographic alignment0.109.5
Geographic footprint0.206.9
Momentumnot measured–
F68.5

Qloo explainability: the buyer-side signals driving the forward affinity are Los Angeles Dodgers (1.00).

Where the audiences meet, across culture

The buyer audience’s top titles in each domain, ranked by how strongly Mitchell & Ness’s audience embraces them.

Music0.94
Embraced: Curren$y, Cam'ron, The Notorious B.I.G. · Least shared: Swishahouse, Boosie Badazz, Yo Gotti
TV0.90
Embraced: Ballers, Brockmire, Coach · Least shared: Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Running Wilde
Film0.86
Embraced: Coach Carter, Glory Road, More Than a Game · Least shared: McFarland, USA, Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot, Varsity Blues
Podcasts0.84
Embraced: I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST, THIS THAT & THE THIRD WITH GMOODY, How Neal Feel · Least shared: The YoYoYo Podcast w/Martin & Hooter, About Last Night, Bertcast

Taste profile overlap

26 of 74 top taste tags shared.

Both over-index on
Hip HopAmericanrapafrican americanfriendfamily relationshipsamerican footballrhythm & blues
Buyer only

Tortillas, mexican american, latino, female protagonist, Guacamole Chips

Mitchell & Ness only

Apple Strudel, hip hop, rapper, african american protagonist, Gangsta Rap

Audience shape

Los Angeles Dodgers (buyer) Mitchell & Ness
-0.78-0.390.00+0.39+0.78≤2425–2930–3435–4445–5455+MenWomen

Relative over-index (+) or under-index (−) of each aggregate audience, from Qloo. Not individual data.

Momentum

Qloo's trending series did not move for this brand or the cohort in the 12 weeks to 2026-10-23, so momentum is not measurable for this window.

Footprint overlap for distribution

White space: Mitchell & Ness strong, buyer weak Shared stronghold Other metros
White space

Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore

Shared strongholds

San Diego, San Jose

Bull vs bear

No debate on this run.

IC memo

Number check passed: 10 number(s), all in the evidence ledger.Written from the ledger template

Mitchell & Ness: ADVANCE

Licensing / co-brand screen for Los Angeles Dodgers. Ranked #1 of 8 on composite audience fit. Composite fit F 68.5. Rule: F 68.5 >= 67 and no red flags.

MetricValueCoverage
Two-way audience affinity0.80full
Taste-profile overlap0.35full
Cross-domain agreement0.89full
Demographic alignment0.91full
Geographic footprint0.33full
Momentumn/anot measured

Shared taste. Both audiences over-index on: Hip Hop, American, rap, african american, friend. Across culture. The buyer audience's favourites this audience embraces most. Music: Curren$y, Cam'ron; TV: Ballers, Brockmire; Film: Coach Carter, Glory Road; Podcasts: I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST, THIS THAT & THE THIRD WITH GMOODY. Footprint white space. Metros where the target's audience over-indexes and the buyer's doesn't: Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta.

Red flags. None raised by the code rules.

Aggregate audience affinities from Qloo, not predictions about individuals. Not investment advice.

Provenance: 26 Qloo calls behind this target

Requests as sent (the API key travels in a header and is never logged). Responses are cached privately on the server.

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Evidence rows (what bull, bear and the judge see)
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