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There is so much continued talk about streaming and the value of personalized channels can bring to hand casual and diehards a point of view as to how they want to engage in the live coverage of their favorite sporting events. We keep seeing the expansion of Twitch (now with as many as 20 channels being …
Three patches, three stories, that was the message this past week as the Philadelphia 76ers, LA Lakers and Washington Capitals all found a niche in breaking some new, and additional, ground for brands looking to engage with teams at the big five leagues in North America. On the historic side, you had the Capitals, who …
We have written a few times about the continued evolution of the Megacast and what media properties, especially Turner and ESPN, but Nickelodeon as well have done with let’s call it “alternative engagement” of consumers who are not really a core audience sometimes, as we pivot in and away from the traditional, now archaic, systems …
“I’m not in this for the art … I want to make money.” I thought of this quote from Triller’s Ryan Kavanaugh this weekend (Note: I have no stake in the Triller Fight Club strategy, but did help out with their first event of the year at Mercedes Benz Stadium) which was in a story …
As most return to campus, I randomly found a piece in Sunday’s New York Times on mom of Lady Gaga, Cynthia Germanotta, and her Sunday routine, and in that was a reference to #BeKind21. So, we went looking. Here’s what we found… Culminating on the U.N. International Day of Peace, #BeKind21 invites schools and colleges …
In the past month we have seen the unprecedented heat of the Tokyo Olympics, NFL games and practices moved because of wildfire smoke, college and high school events, as well as another NFL game, moved because of the devastating effects of flooding and a host of other disruptions big and small from coast to coast …
We have written several times on storytelling and its continued value in all forms; knowing who you are, what you do and being able to communicate that fact simply and succinctly in a world of white noise is more valuable today than ever before. Lots of screaming going on, but when you listen, what are …
There was a time not too long ago when many thought that audio as a medium was almost dead. We live in a video world, we need to see things, no one has time to sit by a radio… Then along came podcasting, and iTunes and digital audio and Sirius/XM and Podcasting and I Heart Radio …
As we head back to campus we keep asking what topics we were watching closely this fall. In addition to the basics gaining buzz…NIL, analytics, sports gambling, gamification, climate change, cause marketing, social responsibility; my answer continues to be STEM and healthy lifestyle. In that second category is the continued growing and somewhat neglected issue …
There was a time not too long ago when the idea of using data to better help and understand the needs of consumers, especially tied to something like sports, involved a hastily filled out questionnaire and a coupon for a free hot dog on game day. We saw these thousands of people in the stands, …