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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
One of the best conferences all year is the Covington & Burling Sports Media and Technology Conference that The Sports Business Journal puts on every November. The SMT always seems to find more forward-thinking, more fresh thought, and more unique topics than most large scale events the rest of the year, and Wednesday’s full day …
Peter Casey is a smart, young hustler who seems to find himself ahead of the curve, sometimes too far ahead, when thinking about the intersection of digital and sport. After working at Columbia on the University’s social strategy, he saw an opportunity to effectively use twitter in its early stages to help Universities tell real-time …
If you have a tablet around an NBA team, it better be a Samsung. TV’s, Galaxies, flat screen monitors, get out of the way Apple and Microsoft, one of the world’s biggest investors in sports marketing just got deeper in the pool last week. Samsung Electronics will be wall to wall on NBA broadcasts and …
You see the billboards everywhere from the Upper West Side to Secaucus, the hoops battle for Gotham…the Nets brand against the Knicks. One takes over subway cars with sleek images of its multi-million dollar renovation, the other takes out newspaper ads challenging companies to become their latest corporate partners. One lauds cheerleaders and dancers on …
Not too long ago if you went up to an NBA media member, or even most knowledgeable fans, and said your lineup of writers included veterans like Ric Bucher, Ethan Skolnick, Kevin Ding, and Howard Beck, one would guess maybe USA Today, a revamped ESPN, maybe even Beck’s former home at The New York Times. …
Nicknames on uniforms, fans names on the court, athletes partnering with global brands that are emerging into the US marketplace, steady, healthy brand growth outside the regions of where franchises currently are, small market success, establishing an expansion marketplace without actually having to move a team, and, having a team turn to its fans for …
It is amazing that it is 25 years this month that the sports business world, just growing at the time, prematurely lost a legend, someone who set the tone and helped create the sports and entertainment communication industry as it exists today. His name was Mike Cohen and some called him “Inky,” because throughout his …
It is late summer in New York. People are on vacation, there is a glut of sports news between the NFL, baseball winding down, the US Open, even The Barclays taking the headlines. So if you have an elite high school basketball event, what does one do to cut through the clutter? Location, location, location. …
Victor Oladipo’s use of Google Glass during the NBA Draft created a great deal of buzz, especially when he couldn’t wear the unlicensed product on to the stage when his name was called. Still, the stylish looking glasses provided some unique perspective as the former Indiana star milled about the Green Room at Barclays Center. …
Legendary Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey said that “Luck is the residue of design.” “The Mahatma “would be proud of his borough’s current tenants in professional sports then. Now there is no way, even in his wildest dreams that Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark could have foreseen a billionaire Russian owner, …
