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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
A little weekend roundup of some smart best practices the last week or so, all with a football tie… KISS Fans The Flames For AFL Interest: it has been years since the Arena Football league has been on the radar screen for most fans and brands nationally. The League which brought us football on an …
Finding and engaging new revenue partners, helping to guide major facility changes, learning the in’s and outs of broadcast relationships, dealing with an evolving support base, trying to negotiate a solid and growing niche in a very crowded sports marketplace and helping forge a new and engaging brand that can be many things to many …
They are unregulated by the FDA, claim to be safer than the regular brands, are environmentally friendly, have started to sign u celebrity endorsers and have the large budgets for marketing that could all be part of a new category on the rise, especially amongst a younger demo. So will E-cigarettes find their way into …
This past week an issue arose in Australian cricket that is one worth watching as the American professional sports landscape, and its fans become more comfortable and engaged with the issue of uniform commercial branding…namely, putting sponsors on jerseys. The talk for the last several years is that the U.S. professional sports will join MLS, …
When Microsoft first signed a deal with Major League Soccer and then a mega-deal with the NFL last spring, it raised lots of eyebrows as to what was coming. Windows 8 and the mobile world haven’t exactly been kind to MS, so was this a large scale advertising campaign or a multi-faceted program designed to …
It is late summer in New York. People are on vacation, there is a glut of sports news between the NFL, baseball winding down, the US Open, even The Barclays taking the headlines. So if you have an elite high school basketball event, what does one do to cut through the clutter? Location, location, location. …
Earlier this summer Indy Car hoped that the casual appeal of the new animated film, “Turbo” about a racing snail, would help get them some much needed bounce with consumers. After all, “Cars” and “Cars 2” gave NASCAR some amazing licensing and branding pushes at a time when their brand had plateaued, so another animated …
The shaving industry has perhaps never been bigger. From products like Headblade to mail away shaving clubs to The Art of Shaving and King of Shaves chains, hair removal is spending more time courting males than ever before with slick promotions, viral videos and immersive experiences. Whereas earlier generations were focused on keeping hair, now …
Last week a lot was made about the death for Heisman promotional campaigns. No More Joey Harrington on NYC billboards, “Johnny Football” has ruined the process etc etc…and after all we are on TV too much to make a difference. Well what if you are NOT on TV every week and want to make a …
The perception is, if you want to succeed on Madison Avenue fully, then you need to bring the game to those making the decision. Every team sport, as well as air racing, triathlons, hot dog eating, even surfing, have tried to show the value of their product by coming as perilously close to Gotham as …
