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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Most sports are taking advantage of the move away from traditional viewing and the growth of streaming, according SBRnet’s annual study of sports fans. The NHL and MLS have seen the biggest percentage lift in streaming since 2019, but every major sport has benefitted from this change in fan sports viewing habits. The Top of the Streaming …
Last week in class we had a guest, Bahruz Balyev, come in to talk about the global storytelling nature of sport through his time working in Qatar pre World Cup and now with the UN on their athlete refugee program. While all that was fascinating and provided great learning tools, it was a side mention …
I like seeing the little things, because it’s the germination of those little seeds that can have a big impact over time. A few cases in point from the last few days. I made a trip down to DC overnight this week to see my colleagues at Monumental Sports and Entertainment open their new District …
There was a time in the middle of the last century where St. John’s University and St. Francis College were located just blocks apart. In fact my dad, Vinnie Favorito, attended SJU just after it went east to Queens, while his brother, my Uncle Mario, matriculated at St. Francis on Remsen Street, before they both …
When Fairleigh Dickinson University won their game in Dayton this week, my thoughts were not of coach Tobin Anderson and his athletes, it was of the support staff who would be going on a ride of their lives, and hopefully were able to enjoy and learn from it. After all, FDU, not far from home, …
Earlier this year a report on the decline of populations in China sent the marketing and brand world into a bit of a spin. For years, even coming out of The Pandemic, the eyes on the possibility of doing business in China were still sitting out there as the fourth piece of a BRIC strategy …
“Curiosity is more important than intelligence.” It was that quote from MIT Sloan that has stuck with me as I looked back on a grand few weeks up and down the Northeast Corridor from Washington to Philly to New York to Boston and back. It was a wonderful few weeks of our own form of …
March 14th is Pi Day, the day that celebrates the mathematical constant ? (3.14). Pi Day was founded by Physicist Larry Shaw in 1988 and has grown in every area of science, especially as areas like gaming and analytics continue to be even more interesting to a younger demo. Maybe it wasn’t what Dr. Shaw had …
One of the top priorities for any property is finding ways to lure the fans of tomorrow, regardless of age, Fishermen go where the fish are. And for sports marketers fishing for kids? Well, that audience is glued to their phones…peering at screens increasingly showing content from TikTok and Snapchat. This weekend’s New York Times …
OK this project is a bear…but it’s a loveable one, like Winnie The Pooh or Yogi…so I decided again to take it on. The response last January was so strong…here again is last’s years which has had over 2 million views…that I thought about doing it quarterly or biannually, but time never allowed. Best to …