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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
While so much discussion and speculation is being brought towards the introduction of advanced Artificial Intelligence into the business of sports, especially on the performance side (good piece but our friend Leonard Armato on how the balance of predictive performance will have to be hopefully tied to good old fashioned personnel staff), it is really …
There was a time when people were all up in arms about sports moving off of free or broadcast TV on to “cable,” and how that move would dissipate interest in sports (those people also forgot that for decades not every game of a home team was even on TV, and things like blackout rules …
I can always tell when the holiday season arrives…we get the first Christmas cards, always from my wife’s hair stylist and my longtime friend and colleague Paul Schneider. They arrive either right before Thanksgiving, or on Black Friday…and with that the season begins. Those cards…pieces of paper…are both tangible and symbolic and its why I …
We take another look at some of our recent podcasts summarized by Noah Zaret. This weekend are two disruptors who also happened to have found blue ocean and are exploiting it on the engagement and content side, Dylan Sadiq, a first generation Rutgers grad who turned an engineering degree in to a literal artform, and …
November 8 was STEM Awareness Day, and it served as a great reminder to how closely linked all areas of science, especially analytics, gambling the Metaverse, 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 …
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 …
It’s a topic I have been thinking about for quite a while, and now as we head towards the colder weather and hopefully further out of The Pandemic, the idea seems to be coming up more and more frequently. Transitioning to The Second Act. I remember the late David Stern talking about his second act, …
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 …
We get to interact with people with such amazing stories every day, but every once in a while one come’s along that makes you say “What?” Such was a case at the MIT Sloan Analytics Conference last March when a young man from Taiwan came up to me and said he wanted to meet and …
There is so much talk about streaming and the value of personalized channels can bring to hand casual and diehards a point of view as to how they want to engage in the live coverage of their favorite sporting events. We keep seeing the expansion of Twitch and its competitors into sports deals with teams, leagues …