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There we were on Radio Row in Miami, one of almost 300 outlets all doing the same thing pretty much; storytelling with audio for almost a full week at the Miami Beach Convention Center. There were the traditional radio outlets, podcasters like The Tony Bruno Show, six college outlets, video setups, streaming posts, even setups …
You could not watch more than five minutes of Sunday nights Academy Awards without hearing the value of “storytelling” coming up as the essential tool for changing opinion, influencing decision and making the world a better place. Storytelling. Again and again. More valued today than ever. The ability to tell one’s story, be it individual, …
“Beer in one hand, bag in another.” That’s the way American Cornhole League founder Stacey Moore describes his growing business. However Moore us underselling what he has built, and we saw firsthand last week on Radio Row at Super Bowl in Miami how the ACL resonates with almost everyone, and how Cornhole really expanded their …
In a time when cause marketing is even more on the minds of young consumers, and as Super Bowl approaches, time to give a best practice shootout to a very simple idea that ties both together, and can help, with a simple act, move mountains. It is the Souper Bowl of Caring, which will again …
It has been a pretty quiet few weeks for sports in New York. An Islanders move up, Rutgers and Seton Hall climbing the college hoops ranks, Jeter to the Hall, Eli steps down, the Mets revolve managers. There is certainly a share of talk, but for live sports? Meh. So that opens the door for …
Team Handball is a thing. No it’s not the old school hitting the ball against a concrete wall many grew up with in the inner cities of the U.S. It is one of the most engaged training sports in the world. Ask many basketball players or soccer players about Team Handball and they will know …
Sometimes you never know where the most unique ideas are going to come from. Case in point was my brother’s shelf on a Thursday night in December. There was a gift from a colleague, a set of slate coasters with the scoreboard from some of the greatest moments in Mets history. Nothing elaborate, just memorable. …
For those who have never been a good part of the fun of the Consumer Electronics Show is finding the balance between practicality and fantasy. Are we seeing a new suit that fits or the Emperors New Clothes? Who will be back next year, whose super cool names were just that; style trumping substance. From …
With the Pro Bull Riders invading New York this local football-less weekend, here is a good one to start the year… Sometimes, breakthrough PR opportunities come from a seat-of-the-pants reaction to breaking events. When “Charging Bull,” the iconic Wall Street bull known all over the world was attacked and damaged last September by a disturbed …
It’s the time of the year for reflection and nostalgia, and while I am a big believer of taking a pause, year round really, and figuring what got done and what could be done differently personally and professionally, I am not a big one on lists of the past or for that matter, predictions of …