JoeFavorito.com
SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
It has been the joyful summer of drinking from the sports business firehouse, and the real fun of this all is very little was predictable. The Knicks run, the World Cup (I still have my notes to formulate), The MLB and WNBA All-Star Games have all given us pause to smile and appreciate above the …
On Friday, Sports Business Journal ran the piece below which I cut and pasted for clarity. I found many of the answers a little surprising…only one of the group really showed a path forward…and it seems to point to either a lack of understanding internally, a sign of the changing climate of ownership, and more …
Monday night there he was, a career athlete on the fringe of sports sitting front and center on a stage in Manhattan talking to an audience that included the CEO of Lenovo amongst other dignitaries and business leaders…a soccer player whose relevance to most of the world just 60 days ago was negligible, but who …
While World Cup is still dominating conversations, July 1 marks the beginning of NBA Free Agency with Summer League almost here, as well as the WNBA season progressing along while the Knicks title still swirls over New York. So we decided to pull together three recent listens curated by our intern Wynne Kenna. You can …
One of the great honors I have had in my career is learning from those on the way up. Maybe it is labeled “teaching” since I have been in the front of the class in programs like Columbia, Fordham, and as a guest at schools like George Washington, Montclair State, Drexel. American, NYU and elsewhere, but …
Yesterday in the middle of an oppressively hot and humid Orlando Wednesday I drove from the airport not to my hotel for a quick cold brew but to Inter&Co Stadium to watch a World Cup tune up between England and Costa Rica. Before I left the airport and was waiting for my car at Enterprise, …
While in Sicily I got a message from my brother Chris, who is in the process of cleaning out his home office and has, shall we say, a lot of stuff, most of which is very special but there are also a lot of cards that may not have value…how many Denny Walling’s does one …
It felt like Thanksgiving in Brooklyn. Other than the food and the company and stories of a part of my father’s family I had known of but never met on the Aeolian Island of Lipari, there was a TV…and football. Not the kind we watched on Turkey Day, but the global kind which I also …
Very few of us get a seat at the table of history, and few in our industry have been at the table…a diverse set of them of many shapes and sizes…than Dr. Harvey Schiller. When talking about someone who was in the room, at the table and in the meetings at the cusp of some …
This past week there was a great New York Times editorial piece by Higo Lindgren on the value of starting a band. While maybe it’s not a “musical” band, which the piece was focused on, but the value of banding together like minded people to break silos, share ideas and interact to stimulate creativity and …
