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It is the promoters dream to be able to utter the words “Standing Room Only,” even if, in recent years, “SRO” is more a phrase to indicate a big audience than an actual sales opportunity. Lack of standing space, fire codes, handicapped laws for open areas and poor visibility everywhere from theaters to stadia have …
Broadcast ads are typically longer than 15 seconds, but as viewing shifts online, where people are skipping or blocking ads, advertisers and media companies have experimented with new ad formats and strategies. This has even come up more and more in live sports, which for years many saw as DVR proof. However now as we …
The Winter Olympics have always been a challenge to draw attention in the run up to the games, and this year in the US, given the crowded marketplace and the fact that the Games are in South Korea, the buzz seems to be even less so thus far. Still early, but it is a little …
Teams are constantly on the lookout for added value that their fans really crave. Yes we love swag; bobbleheads and water bottles, tshirts and towels, and the quest for added enhancements has led to all kinds of improvements in stadium food as well, but how about an enhancement that goes way beyond the traditional. Sunday …
It’s corn maze season again, so sports marketers get moving. It used to be a simple act of passage for families every fall. A local farm would carve a simple maze into its now depleted cornfield and charge a few bucks for kids to roam around for a few hours, then have some cider and …
It’s the time of year when youth sports starts to really kick in again. Anyone who has ever played Little League or soccer or Pop Warner football in the United States knows the signs…the local car dealer, the insurance salesman, the pizzeria who spend some of their hard earned dollars for an outfield or a …
It has been another interesting few weeks of attending events learning and listening between all the day to day activity. Through all that there were some great tidbits to share from the bigger successful minds that wandered in and out of meetings, media events and get togethers…Here’s some of the best to ponder on the …
We should all be about learning as much as we can in the limited free time we have, and along with that comes the value of listening and experiencing some traditional ideas through the prism of new voices. With that in mind, we had a whirlwind week of micro events that touched on sports business …
Patches, who cares about patches? If you are a brand that is looking for a quick splash, sometimes without explanation, then finding your way through a patch is an interesting disruptive way in, although with the NBA, at least on the team side in the US, that is about to be amended more than a …
It’s back to school season, and that means for many a renewed interest in the business of college sports. One that many will be watching, albeit still quizzically, is the rise of esports and gaming on college campuses, not as much as recreation (where it has been for decades) but as an intercollegiate activity of …