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Quite an MLK Day week in and around the industry. I am going to try and do this as many weekends as possible, looking at a few things to be looking at as we go forward. Here are four from the week that are on the radar. Up Chucks: This was a big week for …
Incredible (and incredibly frustrating) as it is, some sports are now entering their second season during the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re able to carry on by being innovative, marrying self-discipline and respect for the health protocols among athlete participants and staff, and creating new league structures. The NHL, which again returned to competition on January 13, …
The Buffalo Bills have been one of the feel good stories of the Pandemic, and their long suffering loyal fans took fandom up a notch this week…assisting the cause of another teams quarterback which was found…on Instagram or TikTok? Nope, on Reddit For those who don’t know, Blessings in a Backpack is a charity that …
Normally, whatever that means, in early January I would be flitting from place to place around the country. Taking offspring back to school, heading to CES to learn more and more about the business we are in, and in recent years, a stop in the Nation’s Capitol to glean from our good friends at Monumental …
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 …
It is 2020 and we all know how traditions have been reinvented or thrown out the window, only to be restarted in the future, and that’s OK. As we have heard from health officials so many times, the Virus does not have our timeline. However, I did realize this morning, here in the gap between …
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 …
We raise the question as a thought starter in class quite often. Who is the media? The initial responses are the ones one would expect…newspapers, CNN, Bleacher Report, NPR etc. etc.… Then we talk about the ability to self-story tell, the rise of social media and citizen journalism, the ability to create and enhance a …
We are in a time where words are being drummed out by action. Beautiful phrases and empty promises all things related to cause marketing and social responsibility are getting outed with regularity as WHAT you do and HOW you do it rightfully becomes more important than WHAT you say. A great example surfaced in the …
I’ve been doing some writing for our colleagues at MVP Index recently…below is a piece on cause with some great data we pulled together…you can find all their great work at MVP Index Insights. Social responsibility and cause marketing have been a growing part of the ROI mix for brands for several years. Not the …