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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 …
It started as a simple way for players to tell their story last season, one which drew the ire of the NFL as a uniform violation, but one which has grown to be much more of a platform as players continue to find more of a social voice and express themselves in a positive and …
It used to be back in the day that Saturday mornings were where kids got their fix of weekend cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Scooby Do and on and on they went, filling network TV for hours. Now kids shows are on demand, and Saturday mornings especially are being filled more and more with another kind of …
There was a time not too long ago when the hot property was Daily Fantasy. The two leaders in the space, Fan Duel and Draft Kings, were spending money as fast as they could raise their millions in what looked like an arms race to see who could be the more disruptive. For one glorious …
Almost to a fault, every entrepreneur will talk about “following one’s passion.” Well sometimes passion can be misguided or simply not something that can be made into a return on all the time you take to build. However we aren’t much without that passion in whatever we do, and sometimes that passion can lead us …
Broadcast ads are typically longer than 15 seconds, but as viewing shifts online, where people are skipping or blocking ads, advertisers and media companies have experimented with new ad formats and strategies. This has even come up more and more in live sports, which for years many saw as DVR proof. However now as we …
It has been another interesting few weeks of attending events learning and listening between all the day to day activity. Through all that there were some great tidbits to share from the bigger successful minds that wandered in and out of meetings, media events and get togethers…Here’s some of the best to ponder on the …
Last week we attended the Sports Marketing track on Marketing to the Latino audience at Portada in New York City. While the diversity in the half day event was impressive, as well as many of the new faces, what came across clearly is both the opportunity and the challenge of marketing to a multicultural Latino …
We are into week one of the NFL season now, and thought it would be a good time to look at the social engagement of some of the most featured faces in and around the league; not the players or even the owners, the coaches. The amount of time they are seen and talked about …
The Jersey Shore is always an interesting barometer for what America is thinking, from politics to pop culture. It’s mix of people from as far away as Canada and Europe as well as the surrounding states, but people young and old into a fun melting pot which always makes for great people watching. Ironically, the …