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A guest column from our colleague Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff… How we tell the story matters. Images and words have equal weight, even if they communicate in different ways, and can often have impact beyond our original intent. Moreover, the narrative framework and context is vital. For communicators working within a global sports industry, that means …
The quest for success for spring football continues on, and personally I hope the models that both the USFL and the XFL have created work, and find great audiences, sell tickets, and give athletes, coaches and industry professionals at every level an opportunity at career success. Make the pie bigger. But will it work? Still …
Most sports are taking advantage of the move away from traditional viewing and the growth of streaming, according SBRnet’s annual study of sports fans. The NHL and MLS have seen the biggest percentage lift in streaming since 2019, but every major sport has benefitted from this change in fan sports viewing habits. The Top of the Streaming …
Earlier this year a report on the decline of populations in China sent the marketing and brand world into a bit of a spin. For years, even coming out of The Pandemic, the eyes on the possibility of doing business in China were still sitting out there as the fourth piece of a BRIC strategy …
It’s been great getting back to face to face events this year, the opportunities to randomly catch up with old colleagues, meet new ones and yikes, even listen and learn a bit. Case in point was Wednesday when we dropped in for a day at Sports Business Journal’s first day of their Media Innovators conference, …
As fall rolls in, our summer intern Noah Zaret keeps hammering out our podcast notes, this week featuring to recent and very timely ones; one of the growing value of entrepreneurship in the sports space, the other on the expanding world of sustainability. You can hear all our podcasts here as well. Jennifer Rottenberg On …
We are lucky to have a student from Elon University, Noah Zaret, working with us this summer. We have asked Noah to go back and break down some of the best episodes of the CUSP Show, the Columbia University Sports Podcast. This time we selected three hot takes…NFT’s, global soccer and the marketing of the …
Last year maybe we have had enough of fake news, because April Fools Day, at least on the sports side, was certainly toned down compared to recent years. This year though some athletes…Tom Brady again…a little LeBron James, The Buffalo Bills with alternate uniforms, and the most viral was now retired womens soccer star Carli Lloyd …
It’s November, which in the fundraising world again means “Movember.” For those who don’t know… Originally launched in Australia 15 years ago, 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 …
Quite the week of listening and learning on screen, and yes, in person (twice) this past week. Thursday night in New York we had a chance to be up close (literally front table) to listen to a POV and best practices from several key dealmakers we don’t often here speak so candidly, including Redbird’s Gerry …