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It will be a year this coming week, the last time was actually in an arena for a game. It was actually two in one day, the Capital City GoGo of the NBA GLeague in the afternoon, the Washington Capitals at night as part of a trip to Washington. I know becuase I still have …
The issue of access, activation and engagement for brands tied to sports properties certainly has not gotten any easier during The Pandemic, and even as we start to move back to some sense of normalcy, the ability to find unique ways to have athletes, even fans, engage continues to be both challenging and creative. Some …
In a continuingly unique year like no other, this week we seem to be getting a forward-looking sense of maybe a bit more normalcy ahead. First MLB announced their rules for the season, adapting some of the changes made from last year’s Pandemic shortened season, and since we now know when Spring Training, and hopefully …
If this was a normal year I would be amongst thousands of colleagues in the craziness of Radio Row at the Super Bowl, a beautiful mix of the mainstream and the unique. It is truly an open marketplace of storytelling, a place where you will see Miss Universe sitting next to a WWE champion next …
A few weeks before Christmas, Jordan Teicher had a New York Times story with several former athletes, including ex New York Jet and Columbia grad Josh Martin, talking about the great value LinkedIn had brought to them in terms of connecting and storytelling as they figured out what is next in the post playing careers. …
As we head toward the re-start of the restarts of the NBA and the NHL, deeper into the chasm of college basketball and look ahead to MLB and MLS and so many other sports keep on keeping on in the first half of 2021, the question of dollar flow, especially with few or limited fans …
Every year on the calendar there are those larger than the game, outsized events that involved everyone from executives and fans to brands and personalities large and small. Radio Row at the Super Bowl, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Soccerex, the NABC Conference at the Men’s basketball Final Four are all in that mix, …
Another in the series of posts for MVP Index we have been helping with… If you had a crystal ball attuned to sports sponsorship growth and innovation at the start of the third decade of the 21st Century, what would that ball have told you five years ago, or even two years ago, or even …
We have seen so much activity from teams and leagues and athletes regarding getting out the vote for the coming election, and the messages continue to grow as we head toward November. On October 1, the Brooklyn Nets even took to the streets, literally, with a double decker bus encouraging people to both register for …
Next in the series of thought pieces we have worked on for MVP Index While the return to play has brought us a Sports equinox times six in September, with something for any fan from cornhole to NASCAR, the WNBA to the PBR, the NFL to the NBA Finals to college football, the sad reality …