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As always happens in a society looking for change, especially in how we get our news and information, new ideas come and go, and the more “traditional” or established brands have to find ways to adapt, shift focus or decide to stay the course. Usually the more progressive brands are able to adapt, split fad …

The All You Can Eat sections and free food giveaways tied to baseball have become very effective and pretty widespread. The Dodgers and White Sox were among the first to offer up the food in select sections, and many others followed. Like the buffet that's All You Can Eat, the incremental value placed on the …

Today's media cycle is always clamoring for more access. Fans, business partners and the media are constantly craving in both sports and entertainment to get more info., more access, more angles in the never-ending search to follow the celebrity. While that is important for brands that seek the spotlight to grow, the elite brands are …

I will start this off by saying this was not my idea today, but it is a good one I had wondered about for a while. It is Vince Wladika, former head of PR for Fox and now a consultant with a number of solid clients, and a college baseball nut. Friday, according to the …

Wednesday's New York Times had a very intriguing piece about the latest space to have edgy brands look for marketshare and buzz…on people's shaven heads. The opportunities actually exist in sports for some type of guerilla opportunity that could also be fun and more than a little intriguing for the right brands. For several years, …

One of the great lessons sports teaches is that many times political and social boundries can be overcome through play on the athletic field. baseball gave us Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier, and last year in an Olympic tuneup, four nations who have few political ties as a group…Chinese Taipei, China, Japan and …

Even as pitchers and catchers report in the States for Major League Baseball, our master marketers in the minors continue to be innovative and find ways to keep their local brands active, alive and relevant to the consumer, their partners and the media. Aside from the host of promotions announced taking off on the ARod …

As we see many “niche” brands from the AFL to NLL struggle with the economy and being able to justify brand spends, the NHL has gone the opposite way and seems to be doing all the right things to build marketshare, buzz and connect with fans on a national and international level. Now in no …

As brands look for marketshare, ROI and media placement, it would be worthy to look back to some of those who were the pioneers in the field…as press agents. On Friday one of those pioneers, Joey Goldstein, passed away at age 81 in Florida. Goldstein's spin work was the stuff of legend, and he worked …

As MLB works through the messaging of Alex Rodriguez and Miguel Tejada, there were a number of solid examples of brands and their staffs finding great opportunities for spin, especially on the human interest side. From NASCAR, which gets going with Daytona this weekend, to hoops and tennis, finding the story and then executing through …