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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
We are now finished with “All-Star” season until MLB and MLS All-Star week in July. The run from the NFL Pro Bowl through the NBA All-Star weekend in Toronto again produced its share of questions, activations and innovations to make the games more relevant in a time when fans are more enthralled with the pre-All …
This week at an event at The Paley Center in Manhattan on sports media hosted by the School of Communications and Media at Montclair State University, longtime New York Times writer Harvey Araton talked about three very important points in the ever-changing world of media. First is that those members of the media who do …
Fashion Week is quickly coming upon us, so why not talk wearable tech and fashion in athletic apparel? University of Denver business school alum Jake Waxenberg is the Director of Brand Strategy for Athos, the next generation of smart clothing. The Del Mar, California native trained at IMG Soccer Academy and the Athletes Performance Institute …
One of the keys to success at any age is to never stop learning and innovating, and a great example of that never stop attitude is ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen. Last week he and award-winning technologist Hutton Pulitzer launched FEVR Tech, a new company with proprietary technology which significantly improves and enhances the fan experience …
We all know “Intel Inside,” but what does it mean for sports business brands, especially as teams, leagues, brands and athletes become more in line with analytics, and how that consumption of analytics can enhance the fan experience. At last fall’s Hashtag Sports Conference, every eSports panel talked about how Intel is the life blood …
We are certainly in a time when the voice of the athlete, and the ability for an athlete to use his or her platform as a medium to invoke change, has never been louder. With that in mind, can athletes, teams and leagues look to the quieter month of January, and one holiday, to …
Yoshi Okamoto is sports entrepreneur who has vast experience in both the United States and Japan. Born and raised in Japan, Yoshi is the first Japanese businessperson to work full-time in the US professional sports, namely the MLB (A, AAA minor teams and Minnesota Twins), NHL (Anaheim Mighty Ducks), and the NBA (Brooklyn Nets, then …
The NBA has built their full slate of Christmas Day games into a marketing bonanza in recent years. Teams wear custom jerseys unveiled weeks before and available for purchase, brands use the four game platform to ramp up their new advertising campaigns for the first quarter. The film industry packs in promotions for their latest …
There is no doubt that hockey remains king in Canada, but basketball is becoming a closer second than it ever has been before. The amount of elite players coming from the north increases every year, as does the interest, marketing and brand value of the countries only NBA team. The Toronto Raptors. One pf the …
The Mailman Group came out this week with their most influential sports brands on Weibo (which if you don’t know is the Chinese equivalent of what Twitter is elsewhere), and it points to the rising level of casual engagement in global sport that a curious and engaged Chinese audience is following. It is certainly not …
