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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
It’s so rare that a stunt takes off with intentionality these days, but you have to give a giant high five to Major League Eating, Joey Chestnut, Kobayshi, Nathan’s, Impossible Foods and everyone else who executed this week’s sling of announcements, from endorsements, to “bans” to special events in just three days, garnering worldwide coverage …
Maybe we think its July 4th, when Joey Chestnut and company dominate the ESPN airwaves at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, but in reality, National Hot Dog Day is actually the third Wednesday in July. For all its innovation and brand creativity baseball has yet to have an official hot dog (or an official mustard …
So the Thanksgiving business lull comes and goes, and with it comes, hopefully the end of the NBA lockout, which means the players and teams can get back to the business of basketball. One of those key to NBA success is Kobe…as in the Lakers Kobe Bryant, and in many ways how his season goes …
The media, social and conventional, have had a field day pillorying Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York, whose work in New York had him on a fast track as a potential Mayoral candidate when Mayor Michael Bloomberg eventually steps down. The week long media frenzy, which reached new heights Monday when Rep. Weiner admitted a …
