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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
When you spend five days in Las Vegas, you never know what you will find. My five days were probably not what most people would consider a typical “What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas” experience. On the contrary what I found was the exporting of the Vegas experience to all forms of sports business …
Over the weekend CBS News shared a list of the most Instagrammed “Landmarks” in each state. Realizing that the pictures should be breathtaking and key spots in history…Gettysburg, Glacier National Park, The Grand Canyon, The Texas Book Depository, maybe Independence Hall…I eagerly went through the list. And while some where quite breathtaking AND landmark…Denali National …
Even as we head deeper into the NFL Playoffs and Alabama’s college football championship is in the rear view mirror, the talk about Central Florida’s National Championship claim continues on, as pundits, especially those on audio platforms where calls now turn from final game to spring practice and coaching changes. The bottom line is, no …
One of the things we keep going back to at Columbia, and in the industry, is to give more young women a chance in this male dominated business. I have been lucky enough to have learned a great deal from a wide swath of women on the professional side of sports, and have had the …
“The NBA will have franchises in Europe within 10 years.” That was David Stern at the NBA All-Star Game in Philadelphia in 2002, when talk of European expansion was the hot topic. Now of course we have leaders floating ideas like that pretty regularly (last week Ted Leonsis talked about esports overtaking the NFL, which …
The end of the first week of December has two storytellers, one perhaps a little subtle and less opinionated than the other, cross the platitude path together. On Friday, WFAN longtime voice Mike Francesa will end his long afternoon drive spot at the station, where he was a big part of creating a genre of …
The value of the athlete or celebrity as an influencer and someone who can change or influence public opinion grows in value ever day; if handled correctly. So can an athlete use social to influence, say his draft status or signing status or even his choice of college? Tight end Dominick Wood-Anderson, the top junior …
Saturday morning as the news came about that Giancarlo Stanton was being traded to the New York Yankees, Art Stapleton, the longtime Giants beat writer for The Record, tweeted this: Yankees are going to sell tickets to the HR Derby in batting practice between Sanchez, Judge and Stanton While it seems to be a bit …
We have written about some this before; how we as a culture and sports and entertainment as industries are always looking to get younger and faster. It’s why there is a huge rush for esports, engaged mostly by those under 30, vs. a bigger audience of gaming and casual games, which is actually a larger …
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 …