iKonX Sports is Tampa Bay's daily home for sports media. Original interviews, podcasts, pack breaks, and locker-room features produced in-house with credentialed access, mixed with curated headlines from the city's leading sports publishers. Bucs, Rays, Lightning, Bulls, USF. Every game, every story, every angle, every morning. Built for fans first. Built for the community to belong to. Built on a network that connects players, teams, agents, sponsors, content creators, and fans on one platform.
This is what iKonX Sports actually does. Every day, in Tampa Bay and across our network. The work output that powers the daily content engine, the community drops, and the partnerships below.
Press credentials and venue access at Tampa Bay's marquee venues. Raymond James, Amalie Arena, Steinbrenner Field, Yuengling Center. Practices, media days, post-game availabilities, player tunnels.
Small, fast film team built for sports and entertainment. Same-day or next-day delivery on game-day video, highlights, photography, social shorts, long-form documentary, branded sponsor spots.
Sit-down interviews with athletes, coaches, agents, and front-office staff. The iKonX Sports podcast. Long-form, unfiltered, in rooms most media never get into.
VR/360 heritage from championship broadcasts to NHL on-ice rigs. Overhead goalie-cam, 360 player POV, 8K live-stream capture, brand-integrated immersive content.
Pack breaks, signings, locker-room takeovers, watch parties. Streamed live with athletes and personalities. The iKonX WhatsApp is where the community gets it first: drops, signings, ticket links, behind-the-scenes.
iKonX Sports Cards. Pack openings, signed cards, live break events. We go live wherever cards and openings happen. Streaming on Whatnot, hosting our own breaks, and broadcasting through the iKonX app. Plus the full iKonX network: players, agents, teams, scouts, sponsors, creators, and fans, booked and connected on one platform.
Original iKonX Sports content. Interviews, pack breaks, podcasts, locker-room features. Produced in-house with credentialed access. Mixed with live scores, RSS rollups, and curated headlines from Tampa Bay's leading sports publishers, each linked back to the source with full attribution. Powered by the iKonX Sports daily automation engine. Feeds, news, scores, and original content delivered every morning at 7am.
An iKonX Sports exclusive. Sit-down interviews, post-practice access, and the production walk-through of how we built the Vasilevskiy goalie-cam VR rig. Long-form. Press-pass legitimate.
Tampa Bay is one of the most decorated sports cities in America right now. A Super Bowl–winning Bucs franchise, a Stanley Cup–pedigree Lightning, a Rays organization redefining how the game is played, and a USF program elevating into national relevance.
iKonX Sports is built here, by people who actually live here, who've worked the rooms, the stadiums, and the venues for over a decade. Our founder is a USF alumnus. Our predecessor agencies have been listed clients of the Lightning, the NCAA, the PGA, and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission. We're already on the ground.
iKonX is built and run by Shane Brown. USF Marketing graduate, founder of Virtual Marketing 360, CEO of ViZion Protocol. Executive Producer credits on music videos for Beyoncé, Lil Wayne, Enrique Iglesias, and Chloe x Halle with billions of cumulative views. Tampa Bay Business Journal 40 Under 40 nominee.
Official VR for the College Football Playoff National Championship at Raymond James Stadium. Goalie-cam VR on Andrei Vasilevskiy. Player POV with Brayden Point. Contracted by the Tampa Bay Sports Commission. On-site work with the Dodgers, the US Open, and USF. Listed client work with the NCAA and the PGA.
Every interview, every pack break, every signing, every live stream feeds the iKonX network. Connecting artists, athletes, fans, sponsors, podcasts, studios, influencers, and brands. When a player works with us, they plug into a much bigger ecosystem than a single piece of content.
Tampa Bay's a sports town built on people who actually show up.
Every game. Every day. Every angle. Tampa Bay sports media. Built here, by people who live here, for the fans, players, teams, and brands who actually move the city.
From credentialed game-day coverage to long-form storytelling, brand-side production, and the WhatsApp fan community. This is how iKonX Sports shows up across the city, the season, and the network.
Sideline, courtside, ice-level, clubhouse. Photo, video, 360, social, same-day delivery. A 15-year credentialed media partner already on the ground at Raymond James, Amalie, Steinbrenner, and Yuengling Center.
ContactSit-down interviews, podcast features, locker-room access, athlete-led docs. iKonX Sports produces the interview, the cards, the live stream, and the distribution as one connected package.
Pitch UsSponsor integrations, title-sponsor campaigns, custom VR experiences, branded social packages. The bridge into the room with athletes, content creators, and an active Tampa Bay community.
PartnerThe iKonX WhatsApp is the fan front row. Pack breaks, watch parties, locker-room takeovers streamed live. Every drop, every signing, every live stream, and every ticket link before the rest of the internet.
Join the WhatsAppiKonX is the first commerce network for the music and entertainment industry. ten verticals connected on a single platform with verified profiles, direct booking, embedded media, and Stripe-powered transactions where artists keep 100% of their listed price. iKonX Sports is the sports-media expression of that same network. Same standards. Same access. Same goal: cut the middleman, make every connection real, put the people who actually move the culture in the same room.
iKonX Sports is here to help cover Tampa Bay's franchises, athletes, brands, and the events that shape the city. Full access. Credentialed access. Same standards and same respect for every team and operation we work with. We deliver news, recaps, interviews, branded content, sponsor campaigns, marketing, and exposure across the iKonX network. Some recent productions across Tampa Bay and beyond, below.
Official Virtual Reality production company on-site for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at Raymond James Stadium. Game-day VR/360 capture, trophy-floor coverage, and championship-celebration content delivered live during one of the most-watched events of the year.
Hired by the Tampa Bay Lightning to design and produce the VR experience for their non-profit fan event. Custom immersive content built around the Lightning brand. Deployed live at the venue for fans, partners, and the Lightning organization.
Hired by the Tampa Bay Sports Commission to deliver the official VR experience for every member of the NCAA committee during College Football Championship Week. Streamed live across the week's events. Helped order and brand the VR headsets. Captured every event as immersive content + virtual tours. By halftime of the championship game, every committee member had the entire week's VR experience waiting in their hotel room. On iPhone and on headset. A speed-and-execution story from a media partner that delivers when it counts.
On-site engagement with the Los Angeles Dodgers organization during LA-based coverage rotations. Field-level capture, immersive 360 content, photography, and brand-side production with one of MLB's most iconic franchises.
Credentialed coverage of the US Open of Surf in Huntington Beach across multiple years during LA-based rotations. Beach-level capture, athlete features, and immersive content built for one of the largest free spectator sporting events in the United States.
Built a full virtual tour of the USF campus for athletic recruitment, plus a VR experience of the USF vs Florida State football game for prospects, supporters, and the program's recruitment effort. Ongoing multi-sport coverage of USF. Football at Raymond James Stadium, basketball at the Yuengling Center, baseball, and the rest of the rising Bulls program. Founder is a USF alumnus (Marketing, College of Business).
NCAA-affiliated production work spanning the Clemson vs Alabama national championship game, a virtual tour and immersive content package for the North Carolina Tar Heels, and ongoing USF programs. Listed national-tier engagement that placed our predecessor agencies alongside Live Nation, Caesars, SBE, and Wynn on the public client roster.
Hired by Valspar as the premier media company for the PGA Valspar Championship. The PGA Tour event hosted in Tampa Bay. Created all social media content for the tournament. Filmed Tiger Woods' entire rounds across the event. Tournament-week credentialed access, athlete-side capture, and full social production for a brand-side title sponsor.
Credentialed access across multiple Tampa Bay Rays games with photography, social media production, VR capture, and virtual-tour deliverables. Plus ongoing iKonX Sports coverage of every major Tampa Bay franchise. Buccaneers (NFL · Raymond James), Lightning (NHL · Amalie Arena), and the USF Bulls. Sideline. Courtside. Ice-level. Clubhouse.
