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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
It’s been great getting back to face to face events this year, the opportunities to randomly catch up with old colleagues, meet new ones and yikes, even listen and learn a bit. Case in point was Wednesday when we dropped in for a day at Sports Business Journal’s first day of their Media Innovators conference, …
We all know how fast the digital/social business is evolving. Platforms go up and down, features change, buzz drives interest and on and on and on. We were lucky enough recently to spend time with Omar Raja, who is now working at ESPN driving their social and digital strategy and engagement is probably best known …
Picked one off from Michael Smith at Sports Business Journal, who did a great job documenting the pivot and opportunity Duke’s Mayonnaise created off last week’s trophy mishap with the University of Wisconsin. The play had everything; good nature, increased sales and awareness, a cause play, and even a longer tail merch opportunity. Think of …
There was a time not too long ago where the NBA All Star Weekend was becoming a slog; players opting out, questions about value and cost, if there was a need or interest any more. Most leagues face the same and bigger issues with midseason (or in the case of the NFL postseason) breaks to …
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 …
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 …
The insatiable appetite for authentic, quality content from athletes and celebrities keeps rolling on, and in the basketball space, a new platform has emerged. CloseUp360 is a lifestyle media platform and production company focused exclusively on the growing world of NBA players off the court. It features weekly content (profiles, podcasts and series) and daily …
Saturday morning as the news came about that Giancarlo Stanton was being traded to the New York Yankees, Art Stapleton, the longtime Giants beat writer for The Record, tweeted this: Yankees are going to sell tickets to the HR Derby in batting practice between Sanchez, Judge and Stanton While it seems to be a bit …
There continues to be such hype and talk in sports, team sports in the US, about second screen usage, OTT, added content, driving engaged viewers to engage in conversations around the live event. However at the same time brands and networks are still tied to the ever shrinking and elusive rating as the benchmark for …
Sometimes it seems like the changes come first up north. In 2003 the Toronto Maple Leafs shocked the sports and media world by breaking news on their website first about the firing of a coach. The amount of coverage the team received by bypassing the traditional set off alarms across the media landscape. Alarms for …