JoeFavorito.com
SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
We love seeing and listening to young people looking to expand their reach and fill blue ocean through disruption and innovation…and new ways of looking at things. Case in point discovered this week from our colleague Adam Honig, a young company in the data analytics space…Project 94…who cut a partnership with Johns Hopkins Women’s Lacrosse …
“One thing is for sure, you never f#ck with a streak.” Crash Davis’s line in Bull Durham obviously speaks to the superstitions and the razor thin line of success in and around any kind of athletic competition, and who knows what really works and doesn’t, but that’s part of the fun right? More important …
The last few weeks we have continued to see the axe fall as teams and leagues and media properties retrench as the end of six months of 2024 comes to an end. Add in all those new to the job market, a still uncertain economy for many, the advent of new technologies, and no matter …
Last week I was doing my usual quick study on key pieces to pull for our weekly newsletter when I came across a great, in-depth piece on US Men’s Cricket team in…GQ. This past weekend I was flipping through the New York Times Magazine…the old-fashioned print edition…and there was a massive feature…on cornhole. Not just …
Freshness and relevance are the two toughest things to find in annual events, especially when they are successful. Rince and repeat can become pretty easy. Not always successful, but much easier to do. Less risk, and usually a known reward. Personally i find that boring, and so do the New York Yankees, a legacy brand …
“What do you think of the transfer portal?” It wasn’t the first question I was expecting from almost 105-year-old Sister Jean Delores Schmidt as I sat in her office at Loyola University on a warm Tuesday morning in Chicago, but then again sometimes when you just show up, you have to expect what isn’t on …
Stephen A. Smith, Billie Jean King, Clay Travis, Evan Roberts, Mike Greenberg, Charles Barkley, LaMelo Ball and on and on it goes. What do they all have in common? Engaged in narratives about the WNBA, its players and so forth. Some of it is the same old debate we have heard around entitled stars, villainous …
“That’s all I want in life. Is more,” he told me three years ago. “More time. More life. More music. More games. More reading. More love. More everything. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” There has been so much written and watched about the passing of Bill Walton this week I cannot do it …
It’s that time of year where the requests for help with jobs, internships, college choices come from parents and recent grads in droves. Thousands who have walked the aisle are now out in the workforce, trying to figure out what’s next and they join another group I am always more concerned about…those who have been …
This business has a tendency to make us very cynical. There is a legendary story from back in the day, when a long-time communications director at an NBA team, after a long day of dealing with the media, was handed a basketball to get signed by a rising star. It was for a young fan …
