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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Two weeks ago I was lucky to host a panel on “The Future” at the National Sports Forum’s first-ever New York event, with NFL CMO Dawn Hudson, Jon Tuck from NASCAR and David Lehanski from the NHL. While most of the topics revolved around futurist ideas; gaming, VR/AR, fan experience, home experience, brand activation etc., …
We are awash in analytic solutions, measurement and analysis in sport. From the grassroots to the NFL, data consumption for fans, teams and leagues has never been more diverse or more scrutinized. Where are the breakthroughs coming from and who is helping shape the field of analytics play? One company is Hudl. Hudl is one …
Paying for news, or sports or financial information is not new. Cable TV, newspapers, magazines, it is the model that has always existed in a more traditional sense. However with the birth of online media and content came the notion that of it was free it had to be me. Drop in billboards and banners, …
When UFC was sold to WME | IMG, Dana White, along with his partners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, drove away in the proverbial Brink’s truck. White’s take from the sale was reported to be $340 million. The extraordinary growth in valuation of a business once banned across most of the U.S. is the stuff of …
Many times I tell people looking to do the next big thing or to “be bold” that the title of my next book will be “It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time,” as we have seen so many smart entrepreneurial ideas come and go because they were too early in the process, or …
In 1957, the US Chamber of Commerce officially announced the National Day of the Hot Dog. Some years later, in 1994, they also decided to organize the National Council of Hot Dogs and Sausages with the National Hot Dog Day and Sausage Council deciding it to fall on the same day as the annual Capitol …
Thirty years ago, July 1, 1987, I was in my office at SportsChannel in Woodbury, N.Y. (where I was Assistant Director for Marketing and Public Relations) with a group of people listening to a new venture in sport, all-sports radio. Just after 3:00, the signal at 1050 AM changed from WHN, a country station which …
On the first weekend of summer in New York you come across two events honoring players of the far and recent past; Yankees Old Timers Day and the Launch of Big Three, the new three on three basketball touring that is the brainchild of Ice Cube and features not current or rising but former NBA …
It’s almost summer time, so we pulled together some good reads; inspirational, business, storytelling, brand building, which we have read and enjoyed, in no particular order. There are several coming that are not out yet or we haven’t yet read, so these pass a good sniff test for young grads, beach or mountain hoers or …
The following was primarily written by colleague Jesse Ghiorzi director, brand strategy for CHARGE Big brands, big money, young fans and professional teams from traditional sports are all heading to eSports, but it still seems like the Wild West out there. There’s no clear top league or major event(s) that crosses over to the mainstream …