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Licensing / co-brand · Los Angeles Dodgers → target #2 of 8

Nike

Market-leading athletic brand providing high-performance gear across a wide range of price points for professional and amateur athletes.

Founded 1964 · Parent: Nike, Inc. · Competes with Adidas, Puma, Under Armour, New Balance · Partnerships: Kevin Durant, Colin Kaepernick, Anna Cockrell

Corporate details are Qloo entity data.

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66.8F / 100
95% of the weighted evidence measured

Why this verdict

F 66.8 is between 62 and 67, 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
0.84
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
0.25
Rank-weighted overlap of the two audiences’ top-50 cultural taste tags.
m3 Cross-domain agreement
0.86
How strongly the target’s audience embraces the buyer audience’s favourite artists, shows, films and podcasts.
m4 Demographic alignment
0.40
Similarity of the two audiences’ age and gender over-index profiles.
m5 Geographic footprint
0.52
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 affinity0.3531.0
Taste-profile overlap0.102.7
Cross-domain agreement0.2018.1
Demographic alignment0.104.2
Geographic footprint0.2010.9
Momentumnot measured–
F66.8

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 Nike’s audience embraces them.

Music0.94
Embraced: 2 Chainz, YG, Juicy J · Least shared: Swishahouse, Flatbush ZOMBiES, UGK
TV0.86
Embraced: Ballers, Men of a Certain Age, Shoresy · Least shared: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Those Who Can't, Workaholics
Film0.84
Embraced: Creed, Coach Carter, Greater · Least shared: Varsity Blues, Major League II, The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend
Podcasts0.81
Embraced: I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST, Monday Morning Podcast, The Schaub Show · Least shared: The YoYoYo Podcast w/Martin & Hooter, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, George Perez Stories

Taste profile overlap

21 of 79 top taste tags shared.

Both over-index on
Hip Hoprapelectronicfriendrhythm & bluesfriendshipfamily relationshipsfemale protagonist
Buyer only

American, Tortillas, mexican american, los angeles california, European

Nike only

Tataki Atun, Sports, Hotel, love, Restaurant

Audience shape

Los Angeles Dodgers (buyer) Nike
-0.70-0.350.00+0.35+0.70≤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: Nike strong, buyer weak Shared stronghold Other metros
White space

Minneapolis, Louisville, Columbus, Memphis, Cincinnati, Raleigh

Shared strongholds

Boise, Anchorage, Tucson, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City

Bull vs bear

No debate on this run.

IC memo

Number check passed: 11 number(s), all in the evidence ledger.Written from the ledger template

Nike: WATCH

Licensing / co-brand screen for Los Angeles Dodgers. Ranked #2 of 8 on composite audience fit. Composite fit F 66.8. Rule: F 66.8 is between 62 and 67, no red flags.

MetricValueCoverage
Two-way audience affinity0.84full
Taste-profile overlap0.25full
Cross-domain agreement0.86full
Demographic alignment0.40full
Geographic footprint0.52full
Momentumn/anot measured

Shared taste. Both audiences over-index on: Hip Hop, rap, electronic, friend, rhythm & blues. Across culture. The buyer audience's favourites this audience embraces most. Music: 2 Chainz, YG; TV: Ballers, Men of a Certain Age; Film: Creed, Coach Carter; Podcasts: I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST, Monday Morning Podcast. Footprint white space. Metros where the target's audience over-indexes and the buyer's doesn't: Minneapolis, Louisville, Columbus, Memphis, Cincinnati.

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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