NetflixSports Marketing Identity

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Few things grip us like the drama of sports. Breathless moments, sweat-soaked determination, the glory of victory, and the heartbreak of defeat. But the most compelling sports stories go deeper than the game. For every moment of triumph or loss, there’s a lifetime of sacrifice, struggle, and humanness — and a hell of a story.Netflix has curated a collection of these stories, leaving nothing out of bounds. You know the games, you admire the athletes, but you’ve never heard these stories told quite like this. To make the collection resonate with a broader audience, they needed a unique Netflix Sports identity.

Our approach was to spotlight what Netflix does best: focus on the human element rather than the superhuman. We embraced the raw emotion and intensity of sports. The identity carries a gritty realism, a starkness, and a promise of deeper layers yet to be unveiled.With an emphasis on dynamism and bold colors, we abstracted the iconic Netflix brandmark, creating visuals that embody the relentless speed and tireless repetition inherent in sports.So get on your feet, make some noise, and tune into some of the best stories that sports have to offer. Right from your home turf.

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Executive Creative Director
Jeremy Volk
Creative Director
Alex Sheyn, Matt Yerman
Design Director
Jon Way
Senior Producer
Kristen Dudek
Producer
Jess Petrullo, Dani Arama
Senior Designer
Mortaza Amiri, Nicholas Fearnley
Designer
Tim Rhyne
Motion Designer
Votgaus, Dylan Casano
Associate Designer
Dani Grimm

Netflix

Global Senior Brand Designer
Noah Nathan
Global Brand Design Manager
Derek Vander Griend

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939 61st Street STE 9 Oakland, California United States

Global Workforce

Chicago, Illinois

Oakland, CA

The Hague, Netherlands

Mexico City, Mexico

Portland, Oregon

San Francisco, CA

Brooklyn, New York

Boone, North Carolina

Chicago, on Lake Michigan in Illinois, is among the largest cities in the U.S. Historic Route 66—the iconic highway stretching from Illinois to California—officially begins in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Oakland is a city on the east side of San Francisco Bay, in California. The famous Polynesian cocktail, The Mai Tai, was reportedly invented at an Oakland Trader Vic's in 1944.

The Hague is a city on the North Sea coast of the western Netherlands. The city features Madurodam, a massive outdoor park containing perfect 1:25 scale replicas of every major Dutch landmark.

Mexico City is the densely populated, high-altitude capital of Mexico. It's known for its Templo Mayor (a 13th-century Aztec temple), the baroque Catedral Metropolitana de México of the Spanish conquistadors.

Portland, Oregon’s largest city, sits on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, in the shadow of snow-capped Mount Hood. Cartoonist, Matt Groening of The Simpsons, grew up here.

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California. The iconic sea mist that rolls through the Golden Gate has its own name, "Karl the Fog".

Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, in New York. The first pizzeria in the United States opened in NYC in 1895.

Boone, of North Carolina, is a town full of ghost stories. The Appalachian Mountains are rich with folklore about witches, moonshiners, haints (spirits), mysterious lights, and creatures said to roam the woods.

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NetflixSports Marketing Identity