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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
I was listening to Alec Baldwin’s great “Here’s the Thing” podcast this past week and his guest was the legendary musician/songwriter/activist David Crosby. Crosby, who has lived many a life, talked about what keeps him going more than the money. His answer was pretty simple, and it wasn’t contrived at all. The joy of seeing …
The following appeared earlier this week on Portada… While most of the sports business world is focused on the goings on around two of the business hottest topics in the United States, the growing gaming and eSports world and the world of legalized sports gambling, a key group of executives at Portada Miami last week …
The following originally ran on Portada… The message that sports deliver to the Latin demographic was made pretty clear last Tuesday morning at The Lamb’s Club, when CNN en Español(@CNNEE) and Portada hosted a special breakfast to talk about the challenges and opportunities in Multicultural Marketing. The packed room listened to a spirited debate about the impact brands can, or aren’t …
When the initial talk of VR and sports first arose a few years ago, the real buzz was what could be done around games for fans thousands of miles away who could never get to a game. Putting fans in China or India courtside to see LeBron James, or ringside for a Triple G fight, …
Maybe it’s because we have all become too politically correct, or maybe it’s because there is sooo much time spent on trying to be the most techno-savvy we can be that the simple, grassroots and fun promotions aren’t as fun or “interesting” as they once were. For whatever reason, even with all the opportunities available …
It didn’t get a great amount of fanfare this week, but the NBA, as pointed out by my colleague Tom Richardson, took a bold first step on the content side this past week, starting to offer a micropayment plan of $.99 for fans who sign up for an account where they can opt in to …
Almost a year ago we did a q and a with Dennis Crowley, the founder of Foursquare and owner of The Kingston Stockade of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL). We talked about his disruptive style and how he came to build a volunteer army that has made the Stockade a model, even at the …
When you spend five days in Las Vegas, you never know what you will find. My five days were probably not what most people would consider a typical “What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas” experience. On the contrary what I found was the exporting of the Vegas experience to all forms of sports business …
The following originally appeared on Portada…check out the site for lots of soccer and Latino sports marketing news… Even without a U.S. team in the coming World Cup, the U.S. soccer market is as strong and is growing faster than every other area, maybe with the exception of China, in the world. It’s why we …
This piece orginally ran as part of the content we are doing for Portada…check it out there as well as all the other new stories on soccer and Latino Sports Marketing as well. First we saw him in his underwear in a hotel hallway, now he is trying to play American football in a spot …