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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
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 …
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 …
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 …
The NBA gets a lot of credit for looking for new ways to engage fans, but when we look back on the fanless fall, the NFL may, and should have emerged from the top of the forward-thinking pack, and Sunday was the best example, across the board, of a glimpse into the future of sports …
The NFL was the first amongst the major North American sports leagues to cut a deal with Amazon, three seasons ago giving Amazon Prime the rights to stream Thursday Night Football. The league has used the partnership to try a few things here and there, including having Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm become the first …
It’s November, which in the fundraising world again means “Movember.” For those who don’t know… Originally launched in Australia, the theme for “Movember” was to get primarily men (although women helped out with a fake one) to grow a mustache or not shave for the 30 days of the month of November, and then gain …
It was 27 years ago this week that I drove from our newly purchased home in Nanuet, NY, where I had spent the last five years as Sports Info Director and then Asst AD For Communications at my alma mater, Fordham University, and made the big jump to being the Director of Public Relations for …
So who do you believe? A few weeks ago, an ESPN related independent poll showed that 71 percent of fans were in favor of athletes taking a stand on social justice issues. This week a poll by Gallup conducted over the last year claims that sports in general, largely driven by athlete activism, has plummeted. …
How much of a boost do fans in the stands give the home team? Or to the athletes on the field in general? Are the risks of having these fans back during a stubborn health crisis too great to even worry about these questions? When the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium announced that up …