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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Here we are with yet another social phenomenon, being quickly grabbed as a challenge from sports teams big and small, and with it many of their engaged followers. The question is, can it become a philanthropic driver of good, or is it just a goofy viral experiment that will go the way of dabbing and …
We all know the adage, albeit untrue, that any publicity is good publicity, and there are stories after story of promotions that seem outlandish going awry when the unthinkable happens and someone tries to cash in. Promos built around bad weather predictions, hole in one shots for millions that were unsponsored, mistakes in printed ads, …
There was a time not too long ago when many thought that audio as a medium was almost dead. We live in a video world, we need to see things, no one has time to sit by a radio… Then along came podcasting, and itunes and digital audio and Sirius/XM and I Heart Radio and …
We were visiting the University of Maryland, College Park and we noticed something unusual…a pretty clean slate of real estate that is readily available but never used. It is not the space above urinals or under the top half of bunk beds…it is literally the ground we walk on. Since then we have seen it …
It had been a long time since “The Frozen Tundra” hosted a college game; 1983 to be exact, when the St. Norbert Green Knights faced the Fordham University Rams in “The Lombardi Bowl,” before a few hundred people as the two (then) Division III schools with ties to the legendary coach (the Packers train at …
It’s the time of year when youth sports starts to really kick in again. Anyone who has ever played Little League or soccer or Pop Warner football in the United States knows the signs…the local car dealer, the insurance salesman, the pizzeria who spend some of their hard earned dollars for an outfield or a …
A brief digression from best practices of others for a moment. This past weekend we had a discussion after some media members were complaining about the lack of a clean wireless signal in a large stadium during a pregame press event. It followed complaints I heard from students on college campuses about the inability to …
This past week The University of Vermont canceled a women’s basketball game at North Carolina, scheduled for Dec. 28, due to concern over the state’s HB2 law, known as the “Bathroom Bill,” and it follows a steady stream of news, including the NBA’s decision to pull the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte and The University …
They have never been the quickest to adjust to new thinking the NCAA. At the NACDA/CoSIDA Convention in Dallas in June, school PR heads were still fitting and hawing over “internet media” and who and how they should credential for games bug and small. Instead of aggressively embracing, there was still a wide gap as …
For years there has been talk, and many false starts, on the need for spring professional football. The Arena League had its moment in the sun and is still trying to hold in in a different form, the WLAF came and went, the UFL made an announcement about a spring league before going belly up, …