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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
There we were Saturday in a prime theater spot just west of Broadway as the NBA fourth league began the run for it ’s third season; the NBA 2K League Draft. With the announcement of the first pick by Commissioner Brendan Donahue (and the subsequent annual hijacking of the name by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski five …
“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 (including Real Madrid leadership looking to create a club Super League …
An interesting question came up in our class at Columbia on Thursday, which has a great mix of students from around the globe in it. If you are working in the communications and marketing offices at the NBA in New York and China and you are following the FIBA World Cup and seeing the U.S. …
Last week as we did new student orientation at Columbia, we were asked what topics we were watching closely this fall; my answer was, and continues to be STEM and healthy lifestyle and its new nosiness opportunities. In that second category is the fast growing issue of clean water, both in developing countries and in …
“Make new mistakes, not repetitive ones.” That was one of the key points delivered by CSM Global Chairman, Olympic medalist, world record holder, Chairman of the London Olympic Organizing Committee and former member of Parliament and President of the IAAF, Lord Sebastian Coe to an invitation-only gathering of sports business leading executives last week at …
We reach mid-July and the lull comes up again; the quietest two days in terms of games in North America. The two days (used to be one) after the MLB All-Star Game are the days with almost no professional game in North America…there is Wimbledon, a smattering of WNBA and NBA Summer League, a little …
The following guest piece was offered up by longtime strategic communications professional, storyteller and longtime supporter of women’s athletics everywhere Dave Siroty, now head of Front Porch Athletics Wow! The build up to the Women’s World Cup was huge. The story lines were great, the focus on equal pay and support for women’s soccer …
A version of this story originally appeared on Portada. We have long seen and heard the talk: women’s sports, or better yet, sports where the competitors are female, are growing. Women control a growing influential segment of the brand decision making, girls who play and follow sports are more likely to do better in …
Gambling, CBD, esports and gaming, hard liquor. All those branding opportunities that were once off-limits for the sports and entertainment media world are now OK. And of course let’s not forget about the millions spent on ED medications that appear during every football and basketball game, as well as golf and tennis, on every screen …
This is not an easy subject to address, but it is one that is extremely important to take into consideration as we look towards an exciting World Cup, the continued growth of the WNBA and just storytelling in general in sports business. We need to all work collectively to grow not “women’s sports,” but sports …