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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
In our class we often talk about how you distinguish yourself from those around you, what resonates when people close their eyes and see you as a person…how you stood out ever so subtly from the crowd. It doesn’t have to be loud, it doesn’t have to be brash, but identifying and then expanding the …
A few weeks ago I was walking on a beautiful Thursday through Central Park to where our Columbia class is this semester, in the tower of Riverside Church. I had spent about 45 minutes on the phone while traversing the beauty of the park talking to a longtime friend and colleague, Mandy Antoniacci, who almost …
“Time is what we want the most and use the worst.” -William Penn Often we are asked what we do for money or what we just “do.” The newsletter, this website, our Podcast, LinkedIn, Twitter etc…does someone pay you for everything? No. Much of what I do that is public facing has little to do …
Three patches, three stories, that was the message this past week as the Philadelphia 76ers, LA Lakers and Washington Capitals all found a niche in breaking some new, and additional, ground for brands looking to engage with teams at the big five leagues in North America. On the historic side, you had the Capitals, who …
We have written a few times about the continued evolution of the Megacast and what media properties, especially Turner and ESPN, but Nickelodeon as well have done with let’s call it “alternative engagement” of consumers who are not really a core audience sometimes, as we pivot in and away from the traditional, now archaic, systems …
“I’m not in this for the art … I want to make money.” I thought of this quote from Triller’s Ryan Kavanaugh this weekend (Note: I have no stake in the Triller Fight Club strategy, but did help out with their first event of the year at Mercedes Benz Stadium) which was in a story …
There was a time about 100 years ago (it was actually 1984) when then St. John’s Sports Information Director the late Katha Quinn caused quite a stir when a reporter, Clemson Smith Muniz of the Daily News, wrote that the elite Red Storm men’s basketball players were being put through “Media Training.” It was partially …
There was a time not too long ago when the idea of using data to better help and understand the needs of consumers, especially tied to something like sports, involved a hastily filled out questionnaire and a coupon for a free hot dog on game day. We saw these thousands of people in the stands, …
A few weeks ago, we had a fun conversation with Roman Tirone, who is helping lead the charge with ZEDRun and virtual horse racing’s success here in the United States and it made us ask a bigger question about the value of predictive data as it can apply to virtual sports, or even matchups in …
“We have a sports business that is radioactive in the best way.” That was such a great way to explain the phenomenon, a growing one, of Virtual horseracing, NFT’s, gambling and blockchain that we talked about last week with Roman Tirone, the disruptive and engaging head of North American partnerships for Virtually Human Studios, owners …