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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
An interesting thing happened on Thursday morning at the New York Athletic Club during the annual Cynopsys Sports Media Awards breakfast. Amongst the usual parade of media accolades…various entities in the FOX SPORTS world took home 12 winners on their own…there were two excitable tables who seemed to also be trading winners every few minutes …
A few weeks ago at the CAA World Congress of Sport in Dana Point, California, a host of speakers were asked what they had their eye on for topics, and what will we be talking about a year from now. The answers for the most part were guarded and much of the same that is …
We reach this weekend with The Masters here, the NBA and NHL Playoffs getting started, MLB now beginning to move along, March Madness completed, even the Frozen Four to take a peek at, but two other stories on the business side that could subtly, for now, have an impact on global sport and the development …
We know how global the sports landscape has become, and how the digital world has made connecting across worlds to be so much easier. Then you factor in the element of being able to build brand, storytell and merchandise success in a very cost efficient way, and suddenly a whole world of entrepreneurial opens up. …
We are always learning, especially from those who carved the path which we have followed. So it was with great pride I got to catch up with one of the communications and marketing industry’s true pioneers and one of its best storytellers, Alan Taylor. Alan, now living in Florida, recently penned a book called …
I admit it, I love reading AARP Magazine. It has the largest circulation of any publication in North America, yet people snicker. Not an edition goes by where I am not learning something from those older: Martin Short and Billy Joel, Tom Selleck and Robin Roberts. On and on and on. Smart short, sensible points …
Here is the latest trio of Columbia University Sports Podcast (the CUSP Show) that we have had in the past few months. Here we go from the business of Snapchat to talking security and the business of Clear to a look at Special needs hockey during Hockey Week in America this week. These were again …
We love disruptive platforms that look to storytell and challenge the norm. We love them even more when they are not just a good idea, they are becoming a good business model. Meet World’s Greatest. The video content platform is of, by and for the World’s Greatest athletes, most with Olympic sports ties, and their …
Years ago when I was with the Knicks, star forward Kurt Thomas came to the community relations team with an idea; he had been screwed out of a large amount of money by a former agent and wanted to find a way to help inner-city kids understand how to manage their money so they were …
Spent four productive Pre Super Bowl days logging lots of Fitbit steps in and around downtown Atlanta produced some great experiences, meetings and observations. Here Ya Go… The Value of Radio Row: A few years ago the death of radio, or the spoken word, as a viable piece of storytelling to a wide audience …