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This week our podcast is with Sarah Unger and Linda Ong, the cofounders of the firm Cultique, which has made an amazing business out of helping brands understand and activate in and around cultural relevance on every level. One of the things that came up was the idea of the “Permanent Emergent.” Those are the …
Before she headed back to the States, our colleague Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff dropped in some additional thoughts on sports and diplomacy from here recnt time in France. Her book Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA comes out September 7. Readers can use code BASKET23US or BASKET23UK (UK, European Union) …
A great guest post from our colleague Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff, from Paris: Last week the annual Global Sports Week Paris teamed up with Viva Tech for a four-day Future of Sport extravaganza at the Paris Expo Center at Porte de Versailles. The space may be familiar, given the acrimony and scathing critique of the Paris …
“This is the business we have chosen.” I was thinking about that line from The Godfather from Hyman Roth (The legendary actor Lee Strasburg) as all the PGA Tour LIV Golf news played out, and continues to play out over the coming days, weeks and months. It is the latest, and not the last, time …
Last winter the world was captivated by Argentina taking the World Cup in Qatar. What made it even more emotional was the fact that legendary announcer, and Argentinian, Andres Cantor, was on the call for Telemundo. Not only did we have the sound of Cantor’s voice, we got to see him through a feed that …
It’s not new globally but it is simple, easy to engage and not hard to understand. Will Red Nose Day, May 26, make it to success on this side of the pond as it has for 30 years in the UK? For those who have not seen the ads or watched the promotions especially across all the NBC …
A guest column from our colleague Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff… How we tell the story matters. Images and words have equal weight, even if they communicate in different ways, and can often have impact beyond our original intent. Moreover, the narrative framework and context is vital. For communicators working within a global sports industry, that means …
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 …
Everyone it seemed had a Pele’ story. Mine was quite random, and since it was just before great cell cameras I don’t have a picture of it, but I have a great mental image, and it’s a story I tell all the time. It was early December of 2007, and the New Jersey Ironmen, playing …
Cristiano Ronaldo may not be able to move the stock prices of Fortune 500 companies with a flick of the hand (read Brendan Coffey’s piece exploding an urban legend this week to understand) but he, along with Paul Pogba, can make brands rethink their literal positioning and visibility as the constant battle for visibility and …