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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Sports, at its core, is often viewed as a transactional business, a zero-sum game. After all, if you leave it for what it is, the score is there when the game ends. Somebody wins, somebody loses. However, the business that surrounds that score, that result, by those who actually play, is much more fluid. The …
Last week in our communications graduate class at Columbia, I asked the question, “would you pay the amount of money, be it $20 or 8 or 4, to keep the blue check.” The answer I received from our 15 students from around the world, was surprising. Almost every one said yes. It wasn’t like any …
As we had toward 2022 the issues and opportunities with regard to engagement in social continues to ebb and flow. While TikTok and its pushes more engagement amongst a growing using audience than ever before, all based around a complicated algorithm of shares and engagement. This speaks to the ongoing issue with social media and …
In sports the idea of “being there” when “it” happened has kind of been lost in the past year. I was reminded of that this week when I saw the Drexel Men’s Basketball team make March Madness for the first time in 25 years. The game was played in an empty gym at James Madison …
“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success if you are willing to learn from it.” the late Paul Allen In a year of profound loss on so many levels like this one, I always think we can learn so much for where our journey will take us next, and that’s …
Friday night I randomly flipped through ESPN’s On demand menu and found “Requiem For The Big East,” which I hadn’t seen in quite a while, so I decided to watch for a few minutes; and then an hour and a half. I watched as a reminder of those original days of basketball but also to …
For those who have never been a good part of the fun of the Consumer Electronics Show is finding the balance between practicality and fantasy. Are we seeing a new suit that fits or the Emperors New Clothes? Who will be back next year, whose super cool names were just that; style trumping substance. From …
Every mid September one of the treats in this business is attending the Gamechangers Summit, the annual gathering of the sports business community which triumphs the achievements of women leaders in sports business. While this event continues to evolve and grow, and it is a place where we see so many different faces, my hope …
There we were Wednesday, in what was once the Bowling Alley at Madison Square Garden, the original home of “Bowling For Dollars,” also in the space where the WNBA had one of its great initial sendoffs, with the NBA’s newest venture ready to engage new fans with its first-ever draft. With the announcement of the …
This past week the New York Times ran an extensive piece on the use of bots to build large twitter followings, and the amount of money paid by politicians, celebrities and athletes to become influencers in a space where brands look to size over substance. In the last few days big names such as Mark …
