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The following originally appeared on Portada The NBA (@NBA) has become more of a global game than ever before, and the numbers of players entering this past weekend’s start of action from around the world bear that out. All 16 teams competing in the playoffs will feature at least one international player. The Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) and …
The following originally ran on Portada… The message that sports deliver to the Latin demographic was made pretty clear last Tuesday morning at The Lamb’s Club, when CNN en Español(@CNNEE) and Portada hosted a special breakfast to talk about the challenges and opportunities in Multicultural Marketing. The packed room listened to a spirited debate about the impact brands can, or aren’t …
There we were Wednesday, in what was once the Bowling Alley at Madison Square Garden, the original home of “Bowling For Dollars,” also in the space where the WNBA had one of its great initial sendoffs, with the NBA’s newest venture ready to engage new fans with its first-ever draft. With the announcement of the …
Fake news travels fastest and furthest. That was the conclusion of a major study from MIT, concluding that people prefer falsehoods over the truth. This shouldn’t be earthshaking news to anyone who has spent a modicum of time in a junior high school cafeteria. However, MIT’s 10-year study revealed that falsehoods trump the truth across …
When the initial talk of VR and sports first arose a few years ago, the real buzz was what could be done around games for fans thousands of miles away who could never get to a game. Putting fans in China or India courtside to see LeBron James, or ringside for a Triple G fight, …
Maybe it’s because we have all become too politically correct, or maybe it’s because there is sooo much time spent on trying to be the most techno-savvy we can be that the simple, grassroots and fun promotions aren’t as fun or “interesting” as they once were. For whatever reason, even with all the opportunities available …
Every year around this time MLB and MiLB roll out their season long promotion schedules; chock full of bobbleheads, gnomes, beach towels, caps and hundreds of others (Maury Brown had a good summary of MLB promos here). The overwhelming number are always geared towards families and kids, with the idea of getting the unit to …
It didn’t get a great amount of fanfare this week, but the NBA, as pointed out by my colleague Tom Richardson, took a bold first step on the content side this past week, starting to offer a micropayment plan of $.99 for fans who sign up for an account where they can opt in to …
Almost a year ago we did a q and a with Dennis Crowley, the founder of Foursquare and owner of The Kingston Stockade of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL). We talked about his disruptive style and how he came to build a volunteer army that has made the Stockade a model, even at the …
By now the praise not just the University of Maryland Baltimore County men’s hoops team but their social media work has been well documented, and has certainly cemented the Retrievers as one of the feel good stories of March Madness both on and off the court. Some great takeaways from how UMBC engaged should be …