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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
One of the areas where we learn the most is from listening to the storytellers and the trusted advisors, be they people involved with entertainment, sports, politics, media, brands, cause marketing etc. We recently caught up with a longtime friend, Vernon Cheek, who is now VP of Media Relations at FOX Sports, to get his …
Tuesday marked the 28th anniversary of the passing of Arthur Ashe from complications from AIDS. One of the sad ironies is that he was offered &and was going to accept head women’s tennis coaching job at Fordham when he found out and informed then athletic director Frank McLaughlin that he had to pass on the role. I was …
In a continuingly unique year like no other, this week we seem to be getting a forward-looking sense of maybe a bit more normalcy ahead. First MLB announced their rules for the season, adapting some of the changes made from last year’s Pandemic shortened season, and since we now know when Spring Training, and hopefully …
It’s hard to argue that the NFL has made great strides in innovation, disruption and fan engagement in 2020. One of the leaders in the area doing the listening and pushing forward is Blake Stuchin, Vice President of Digital Media Business Development at the NFL. We spent some time on our podcast with Blake to …
This past week we got to talk to classes at Misericordia University and St. Bonaventure University about storytelling and best practices around our business, especially the lessons we have learned and will continue to push forward on the other side of The Pandemic. We always keep going back to some pretty simple ideas to move …
If this was a normal year I would be amongst thousands of colleagues in the craziness of Radio Row at the Super Bowl, a beautiful mix of the mainstream and the unique. It is truly an open marketplace of storytelling, a place where you will see Miss Universe sitting next to a WWE champion next …
“Welcome to history.” Those were the first words I ever heard someone say to me as we entered the Palestra in Philadelphia. It was January 27, 1984, and as Manager of the Fordham University men’s basketball team I had walked into the hallowed halls at The University of Pennsylvania as we came in to practice …
Perennial Super Bowl advertising powerhouse AB InBev won’t run ads for its flagship Budweiser brew during Super Bowl LV, opting to reallocate its investment to ongoing COVID-19 awareness. The popular Clydesdales aren’t the only ad icons benched. Coke and Pepsi, two marketing giants that usually provide highlights as good as the actual game, also won’t run thematic …
When we were back with the Knicks, the fact that we did not win as much as hoped on the court gave us the ability to story tell way beyond wins and losses, maybe even more than we could have done if we had been title contenders. A big part of that storytelling success was …
Quite an MLK Day week in and around the industry. I am going to try and do this as many weekends as possible, looking at a few things to be looking at as we go forward. Here are four from the week that are on the radar. Up Chucks: This was a big week for …