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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Saturday I was in the Verizon store begrudgingly getting a new phone and I was talking to a mom and her daughter next to me. The mom. About my age, was bemoaning all this “technology” and how the ‘80’s and the ‘70’s was better. I laughed and looked at the daughter, who was 22 and …
Earlier this year a report on the decline of populations in China sent the marketing and brand world into a bit of a spin. For years, even coming out of The Pandemic, the eyes on the possibility of doing business in China were still sitting out there as the fourth piece of a BRIC strategy …
This week, from just before Halloween into the run up to Thanksgiving, always seems to be quite the tumultuous one. We usually have some Election drama, have had a massive snowstorm, Super Storm Sandy, The Pandemic, the tragic plane crash in Jamaica, Queens in 2001, and sometimes, sometimes, even things like the 2015 World Series …
While we try to keep an eye on the future while being in the present, it is nice to lean forward and see opportunities yet to move into the sports. Media and entertainment world that are bubbling up elsewhere, and as they become opportunities to marshal profit and engagement, could soon make the jump. Two …
When you get older like me you tend to root for people more than teams. So it was there Thursday night as the Golden State Warriors too their fourth title since Steve Kerr took the reins and Steph Curry and crew turned up the volume, that I kept looking along the fringes for my two …
Gambling, CBD, Crypto, gaming, hard liquor. All those branding opportunities that were once off-limits for the sports and entertainment media world are now OK and the categories for most (CBD is still dealing with legal state by state regulations) are more robust than ever. And of course let’s not forget about the millions spent on …
There is a scene in the TV show “The Odd Couple” where Felix and Oscar are trying to fly to Houston together to help eliminate Felix’s fear of flying. It was optimal as Oscar was going to cover a Houston vs. San Diego NFL game and they could travel together. The problem was the plane was …
It’s a good week to talk about content creators. We had Dylan Sadiq, “The College Cuber,” and we recently caught up with “The King of NBA twitter,” Josiah Johnson on our podcast at Columbia (which we have just wrapped up six years doing by the way). Johnson, who ironically told us he had the unique …
November 8 was STEM Awareness Day, and it served as a great reminder to how closely linked all areas of science, especially analytics, are tied to all levels of sport. 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 …
Usually after not doing something mentally or physically for quite a while it takes a bit of a restart to get back into the flow. Amazingly we found it true about the return to live business events as well. Tuesday I made the trek to midtown to the CAA World Congress of Sports, the first …