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Sometimes it’s the simplest of ideas that work the best. One recent example, launched formally this spring, is Sox Lunch. Founder Kevin Phelan felt that there was no place for fans to get simple unfettered news in an email form, easily digestible, for his hometown Red Sox, and launched the platform to do so. A …
The innovation and content creation around March Madness will grow with each passing round. However, last week, saw several universities capitalized on the excitement around conference tournaments and Selection Sunday by scaling up content creation, courtesy of IMG College. UConn, Tennessee, and Cal reminded us that each game has its own story as they produced …
Our weekly CUSP (Columbia University Sports Podcast) has had a treasure trove of unique content, which I realized today we should be highlighting when we go live. This Monday’s guest is Nathan Lindberg, Director of e-Sports Sponsorships For Twitch. For those who don’t know, Twitch is to e-Sports what ESPN is to traditional sports. …
It is one thing to talk about wearables and their potential, it’s another to actually see the technology implemented in a game or a match and follow, albeit from a distance, in actual game play. On Saturday at Red Bull Arena, while so many colleagues were hearing from experts about the future at the trio …
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 …
