JoeFavorito.com
SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Last year at the IMG World Congress of Sport, Funny or Die co-founder (and former ESPN exec) Dick Glover talked openly about how the platform had grown and how, on occasion, sports would find its way into a skit or two. The important thing, he added, was the scenes had to be authentic to be …
Earlier this week, The Daily Payoff, the first U.S.-based platform to cover all business aspects of the gaming and gambling businesses had its official launch. The site will look to have the most comprehensive national and international news in verticals that will include the casino business, fantasy sports, horse racing, e-gaming, games of skill, the …
If there was ever a personality meant for talk radio it is Nestor Aparicio. No matter where he has worked in and around Baltimore, “Nasty” as he is sometimes known, has never been a shrinking violet, and is never ever without an opinion or something to say. Sometimes he has ticked people off, sometimes he …
The NCAA Women’s Final Four in Tampa this year will have all the usual buzz, hype, sold out crowds and pageantry that would be expected from an elite celebration of elite teams. There will be the FanFests, the memorabilia, the sponsor events and a host of community projects designed to give back to the area, …
This time of year has become conference time for some reason; Leaders In Sport, MIT Sloan, SEME, SINC, Sportel, World Congress of Sports, IEG, SxSW, SMWW at the NFL Draft Combine, the Kellogg School, SABR, Hashtag Sports…there is hardly a day, let alone a week from mid-February through mid-April where someone, somewhere in the US …
It was once rightfully so called “Geekfest,” a small to medium size gathering of young men looking to figure out how to make statistical analysis more relevant. However the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference as a brand has now grown into an event that has probably even surpassed the vision of what its founders, Houston …
The sports business world many operate in today is about living in the moment. Capture the tweet, send the video, sound bite the reaction and move on. Often times the loudest impact comes from the most controversial; the off the cuff comment, the blind post, the anonymous source, the heated reaction. The implications for those …
There was a joke in the old hit TV series “The Odd Couple” where Oscar tells Felix he is going to cover the Curling Championships, and an excited Felix replies “I didn’t know hair dressers had a sport.” That was then, and I’m sure the sport of curling appreciated the national TV mention on the …
It has been on life support for years in the eyes of many. Banished to small gyms as the UFC and WWE rose to prominence, gone from network TV, full of an alphabet soup of titles, a lack of U.S. buzz, no heavyweight stars, too violent and corrupt. Boxing many said, will soon be gone. …
The athletic shoe business is not an easy one, ever for mega-brands like Nike and adidas. What will it be like for Under Armour? The track record of Kevin Plank’s massive brand has been strong with almost every expansion into new categories, and the footware division got a big lift with the rise to stardom …