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Anyone remember POG’s? They were, for a very short time, the early 90’s version of hot collectable. Cardboard tokens that stood for “Passion fruit, Orange and Guava” they popped up everywhere, including in sports, as the next must have, in the line of Beanie Babies Pokémon cards and the like. They were literally at one …
This weekend was listing to the TED Radio Hour when host Manoush Zomorodi and her guest Esther Perel talked about the ever-evolving business of relationships, and how personal capital and the “Unwritten resume” has become more and more valuable in any decision-making process, personal or professional. What did she mean? “The unwritten resume” is not …
It’s hard to argue that the NFL has made great strides in innovation, disruption and fan engagement in 2020. One of the leaders in the area doing the listening and pushing forward is Blake Stuchin, Vice President of Digital Media Business Development at the NFL. We spent some time on our podcast with Blake to …
Quite an MLK Day week in and around the industry. I am going to try and do this as many weekends as possible, looking at a few things to be looking at as we go forward. Here are four from the week that are on the radar. Up Chucks: This was a big week for …
Normally, whatever that means, in early January I would be flitting from place to place around the country. Taking offspring back to school, heading to CES to learn more and more about the business we are in, and in recent years, a stop in the Nation’s Capitol to glean from our good friends at Monumental …
The NBA gets a lot of credit for looking for new ways to engage fans, but when we look back on the fanless fall, the NFL may, and should have emerged from the top of the forward-thinking pack, and Sunday was the best example, across the board, of a glimpse into the future of sports …
“We have a large megaphone, and we think we can amplify storytelling by using it properly.” Chris LaPlaca, ESPN’s longtime head of communications, used that example during a Zoom chat with our Columbia class this past fall when asked about the changing role that ESPN has in storytelling, and in the past few weeks it …
Did you know where the term “Touchpoints” came from? Bet you didn’t know it came from fencing. Read on, and listen as well, you are in for a business, storytelling and entrepreneurial treat. Michael Aufrichtig, Head Coach of Columbia University Fencing, joins us to discuss the state of the sport in 2020 (listen here) and …
One of the topics that we started the year looking at so closely was the rise and impact women’s sports would be having. While that was somewhat slowed by the Pandemic, the impact continues to grow again, and now, going into a year hopefully with the Olympics and other tentpole storytelling opportunities, we will see …
“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success if you are willing to learn from it.” the late Paul Allen In a year of profound loss on so many levels like this one, I always think we can learn so much for where our journey will take us next, and that’s …