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We can never learn enough from experts and teaching tactics around the world. Here is a guest post from Rick Liebling, with some sports on sports business with a Spanish tilt. Rick Liebling is an independent marketing consultant with more than 15 years of sports marketing experience. You can follow him on Twitter: …
We love unique promotions, and it seems like the Minnesota Wild found a cool one with a local brand to generate buzz and some unique ROI that could go national. Hiway Federal Credit Union is conducting a one-of-a-kind treasure hunt around its sponsorship of the Wild that gives participants the opportunity to win the cash …
Guest post by Tanner Simkins… Loud cars, brash fighters and a fast-paced testosterone driven Olympic sport. What do they have in common? A weekend in Las Vegas. The city known for big and bold will have a rare chance to host not two but three high octane sporting events this weekend, as the UFC fight …
The youth sports aggregation space is the Holy Grail to marketers. As media companies continue to home better ways to engage high school sports and the walls for brand alignment come down, youth sports, at the most grassroots level, remains largely disjointed and extremely hyper local. While groups like Little League and Pop Warner provide …
The LA Galaxy have more competition for the brand on the horizon. With an expansion MLS team coming and at least one, if not two NFL franchises joining the massive media market, the residents of the StubHub Center will continue to look for ways to stay as involved and active in Southern California as they …
This week at an event at The Paley Center in Manhattan on sports media hosted by the School of Communications and Media at Montclair State University, longtime New York Times writer Harvey Araton talked about three very important points in the ever-changing world of media. First is that those members of the media who do …
Next month while much of America is fixated on March Madness, a large crowd will cram its way into Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Bridgewater, New Jersey. There will be painted faces and cheerleaders, cowbells and mascots, rival fans chanting at each other, ear splitting techno music, a roaring emcee, referees in the requisite striped shirts …
While sports media has been rightfully obsessed with Super Bowl 50, and the NBA All-Star weekend one story has slipped under the radar: the very fast start of Professional Bull Riding (PBR). More than a few eyebrows were raised when the Hollywood agency known for building stars like Oprah, Adele, Serena Williams, Ben Affleck and …
Spending four productive Pre Super Bowl days logging lots of Fitbit steps in and around San Francisco produced some great experiences, meetings and observations. Enjoy the game! The Value of Radio Row: A few years ago the death of radio, or the spoken word, as a viable piece of storytelling to a wide audience was …
Fashion Week is quickly coming upon us, so why not talk wearable tech and fashion in athletic apparel? University of Denver business school alum Jake Waxenberg is the Director of Brand Strategy for Athos, the next generation of smart clothing. The Del Mar, California native trained at IMG Soccer Academy and the Athletes Performance Institute …
