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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
We love connecting with smart people who have an idea and a passion and are finding ways to make it go. One we came across recently is FANTOM, a Facebook-based platform that is building a community of personalities looking to engage and aggregate shared voice around events big and small. Want to put a nice …
We have written about some this before; how we as a culture and sports and entertainment as industries are always looking to get younger and faster. It’s why there is a huge rush for esports, engaged mostly by those under 30, vs. a bigger audience of gaming and casual games, which is actually a larger …
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 …
You cannot go anywhere in the sports, media or entertainment business today without hearing a whisper of esports. The buzz and the dollars being spent against gaming, especially professional gaming, is growing exponentially every day as businesses in the traditional sports space look to learn and grow into a new genre with its own culture, …
It’s November, which in the fundraising world again means “Movember.” Originally launched in Australia, the theme for “Movember” is to get primarily men (although women can help out with a fake one) to grow a mustache or not shave for the 30 days of the month of November, and then gain dollars through pledges for …
We wanted to learn even more about sports business in China, so back we go to Mark Dreyer, a longtime media member with UK and Canadian roots who recently launched a great site, China Sports Insider. Here we talk about new faces, new places and new business names you may not know a lot about, …
For thousands of years the west has had a mystical fixation on Asia; now the digital world has brought us closer together than ever before, but the sports business world is still a fluid and evolving mystery to many. With that in mind, we connected with Mark Dreyer, a longtime media member with UK and …
On Tuesday came the news that Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire philanthropist, entrepreneur and president of the Emerson Collective, was buying a significant stake in Monumental Sports & Entertainment, the $2.5 billion business that includes the NBA Washington Wizards, NHL Capitals, WNBA Mystics, two AFL teams and Capital One Arena among other pieces. The investment, once …
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 …