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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
‘He’s going to call you at home.” Those words in mid March of 1996 from the late “Superstat,” the legendary Harvey Pollack came true, because the next night at our New Jersey townhouse while I was feeding our newborn daughter Christine, the phone (in the time before cell phones) did ring, and on the other …
One of the great joys of showing up remains the randomness of not just meeting new people and hearing their experiences, but in reconnecting with older ones. Case in point, at the MIT Sloan Sports Conference Columbia hosted our annual cocktail event for students, alums and friends in the industry. Across the bar I saw …
We have always heard the phrase that “hope springs eternal,” as the air gets warmer, the grass gets greener, in most places the future beckons brightly, we tend to get more excited and hopefully interested in what lies around the corner. Maybe that’s why the spring transfer window in college athletics opened this week. (Well …
Guest post by colleague Dave Siroty, who loves college sports but can’t understand why sometimes actions on storytelling are counter to what could work. And he is right. Read all his insights here. Joe Favorito just wrote a blog explaining why we are addicted to sports and why the TV ratings continue to rise. Sports are …
What do the reigning NBA Championship Coach and one of women’s sports most successful commissioners have in common Michigan’s Dusty May (good piece here by Yahoo’s Jeff Eisenberg) with people you may not know like Jack Richason, Will Conley, John and Joe Owen, as well as Lawrence Frank, the fictional character Ollie McLellan, and countless …
The digital world can be a tough place to navigate and can also be a place where people react without context. So April Fools jokes seem to be running more risk than reward where fake news seems to sadly rule the day. Now for decades creative and entrepreneurial folks have taken advantage to out one …
This past Sunday there was a story in the New York Times about the drop in reality TV production, down 15% this past year. Costs, a lack of consumers watching actual broadcast TV vs streaming services and online platforms, were the key reasons we will get less Batchelor going forward. However, as the late David …
So much has been made with regard to cause marketing…it’s not just what do you stand for, but what are you doing to back up what you say? One of the consumer brands who spends widely in the highly competitive sandwich industry is Jersey Mike’s, and later this month, the chain, which started in Point Pleasant, …
This past weekend we made the trip to our new accountant to get things aligned for the past year and what lies ahead. He looked at all the 1099’s we had for the year and smiled a bit. “At least it looks like you don’t have to worry about a job cut with so many …
We have a lot of issues on this big blue marble we call home, whether they are global or personal in scope. However as we turn to spring today we have gotten constant reminders of the joy sports and live, communal shared experiences can bring and why, in challenging times thy are more important than …
