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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Live sound, on field audio, manufactured tracks. We have seen, and heard, or not heard them all as return to play without fans keeps evolving around the world. Leave it to a 20 year old to come up with another growing option. HearMeCheer is an audio broadcast app that collects live fan noise and streams …
As we move into August of this summer like no other, those in the know continue to look at the disruptive change that keeps evolving in the sports business landscape. Where will streaming be going; what jobs are being created, how will the workforce shift; how is fan engagement changing, where do media dollars go …
Growing up my first real adult, or semi-adult, “bar home” was Runyons on 52nd street just off of Second Avenue. At Fordham we were lucky enough to be the last class where the drinking age was 18, and somehow we found our way over the years into the storied saloon to listen to everyone from …
In the past few years MLB has held a weekend where players can express themselves with self designed cleats and other pieces of equipment, much of which is tied to cause. The NFL has selected one weekend every season for the popular “My Cause, My Cleats” campaign, which raises thousands of dollars for the cause …
There is no doubt that the Cannabis/CBD business is steadily finding its way into the mainstream, and that of course includes the billion dollar business of sports. On Monday USA Triathlon became the first National Governing Body to join the partnership growth, announcing a deal with Pure Spectrum, which is based in Colorado and that …
Andy Ruiz Jr.’s stunning upset of Anthony Joshua set the sports world on its ear, and his victory lap has include the talkshow circuit and other must do’s befitting a new heavyweight champ, one who’s start to the belt began with something even “Rocky” never did, a Direct Message to a promoter to see about …
They are still loosely regulated by the FDA, claim to be safer than the traditional cigarettes, are environmentally friendly, have started to sign up 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 vaping now find …
An interesting thing happened on Thursday morning at the New York Athletic Club during the annual Cynopsys Sports Media Awards breakfast. Amongst the usual parade of media accolades…various entities in the FOX SPORTS world took home 12 winners on their own…there were two excitable tables who seemed to also be trading winners every few minutes …
We are always learning, especially from those who carved the path which we have followed. So it was with great pride I got to catch up with one of the communications and marketing industry’s true pioneers and one of its best storytellers, Alan Taylor. Alan, now living in Florida, recently penned a book called …
Years ago when I was with the Knicks, star forward Kurt Thomas came to the community relations team with an idea; he had been screwed out of a large amount of money by a former agent and wanted to find a way to help inner-city kids understand how to manage their money so they were …