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It’s not easy to spend little money and get high visibility in a closely watched professional sports broadcast, but kudos to Paramount for scoring a viral success for their recent horror release “Smile.” “Smile” stars Sosie Bacon as a psychiatrist haunted by an eerie presence, one which does all kinds of horrific things to victims …
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 know the argument. Baseball is slow, it’s your fathers and mother’s game, millennials don’t want to watch and on and on and on. However as we marked the 20th anniversary of MLB leading the foray into the streaming the business, there is an argument to be had that baseball may be having tis most …
The collectable industry continues to grow, while the digital collectible space, largely driven by NFT’s also continues to evolve. Is there a path to having the tangible and the digital work in harmony to give value to all? Here is one startup that combines the digital space with hard goods…in this case, sneakers. Last week …
In 2018, Bud Light came up with the fun promotion around the Cleveland Browns breaking their losing streak, unveiling coolers throughout the region that opened with the team posted a long awaited win. This year, Pepsi unveiled a new buzzworthy and fun consumer promotion, tied to the renewal of their almost 40 year old partnership …
Yes The Big Ten Conference has dominated the summer college news cycle with its moves to add UCLA and USC to their national mix, which has further churned the murky waters of college alignment during this hot summer. However not to get lost in the mix were at least three impactful, big picture legacy events …
Sports books written by league executives can be interesting and illuminating but also risk being safe, watered down, and predictable. The exec who oversees PR for PBR (Professional Bull Riders) from an Endeavor office in New York, Andrew Giangola, has just released a new book that bucks the inherent challenges of sanitized prose, offering a …
Right after Donald Trump was elected to the presidency I asked a friend of mine, a deep Washington insider who had worked on numerous campaigns and had spent a good amount of time around the Kushner family (even though he was a hard line Democrat, that’s business) if all the things the newly elected POTUS …
We throw around words like authenticity as a core value to connect with the world in general…especially for those in the limelight…we often forget what is actually authentic and what resonates as an example. Well here are two from the last few days, both of which show sincerity, vulnerability, emotion and most importantly the ability …
I was watching Ken Burns’ great two-part documentary on Benjamin Franklin this week when I noticed one of so many thoughts of relevance…Franklin was asked about why at his advanced age does he still care about goings on that should be taken up by younger people, and how he knows if something he is doing …