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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
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, …
This past week the New York Times ran an extensive piece on the use of bots to build large twitter followings, and the amount of money paid by politicians, celebrities and athletes to become influencers in a space where brands look to size over substance. In the last few days big names such as Mark …
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 …
The mention of “Billions” and big time sports are pretty synonymous these days, but Showtime, a network that has been known for some unique sports content over the years, will deal with “Billions” of a kinda different sort when their new series starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis debuts this Sunday. The series is all …
Two weeks ago while at the US Open we got the news that Bloomberg had let go of many of its US-based sports business reporters. The continual change of the marketplace combined with a refocusing of the company on the media side meant that the content being created did not match the vision of senior …
There are few journalists more respected in this country than Malcolm Moran, who in his most recent stops has added the title of professor to his extensive resume. Now director of the National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University, he helps lead best practices and study of the field which as we know is ever-changing …
This past Sunday, three of the most read stories in the New York Times involved the growing and ever-changing world of gaming and gambling. From competitive, professional e-gaming to lotteries now being devised to teach people about healthy savings to the continued troubles two of the biggest online games companies, Rovio and Zynga, are having, …
Maybe its because there is such great longform writing being done online this year, but it seemed like the book business was more about facts and figures this year than it was about good storytelling. There were some great book reads this year we came across, and these were from the books we read, not …
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. …
One of the credos, at least in the business world, that I try to implement all the time was first told to me by my grandfather, Joe Sgro. Joe was an accountant by trade, educated at Boy’s High and St. John’s University and by many accounts the unofficial Mayor of South Brooklyn when I was …
