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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
There are certain experiences or opportunities that were deemed priceless over the years…the cover of Sports Illustrated, an ESPN SportsCenter commercial, the cover of a Wheaties box…were all those unforgettable moments that showed athletes they were in rare air…they had made it into a group that was earned, not purchased. In that same vein, walking …
It is a really crowded time of year in our business, what with MLS and NWSL a month into their seasons, The Stanley Cup and NBA Playoffs in high gear, MLB coming into the end of month one, the NFL Draft and all its prep, heck even the USFL and the XFL are head to …
The quest for success for spring football continues on, and personally I hope the models that both the USFL and the XFL have created work, and find great audiences, sell tickets, and give athletes, coaches and industry professionals at every level an opportunity at career success. Make the pie bigger. But will it work? Still …
Maybe becuase it’s tough to do on a weekend, or becuase the social space has clogged our inboxes, but April Fools Day, at least on the sports side, was certainly toned down compared to other years. This year we had Snoop signing with the Steelers, a Caleb Love transfer…to Duke, some fun local things at …
One of the top priorities for any property is finding ways to lure the fans of tomorrow, regardless of age, Fishermen go where the fish are. And for sports marketers fishing for kids? Well, that audience is glued to their phones…peering at screens increasingly showing content from TikTok and Snapchat. This weekend’s New York Times …
OK this project is a bear…but it’s a loveable one, like Winnie The Pooh or Yogi…so I decided again to take it on. The response last January was so strong…here again is last’s years which has had over 2 million views…that I thought about doing it quarterly or biannually, but time never allowed. Best to …
Safe to say it is almost back to normal, the craziness of Super Bowl Radio Row and the ancillary activities in and around the Phoenix Convention Center. The most interesting thing this year was the continued shift to new platforms and areas that we would not have seen before COVID, and the continued diversity of …
Netflix, which added 7.7 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022 on $7.85 billion in quarterly revenue, is getting a lot of attention for its sports documentaries. The streamer, which has renewed the enormously popular “Drive to Survive” with Formula 1 for the 2023 season, recently released five bingeworthy episodes of “Break Point,” a …
I honestly have never seen a broadcast ad for Waffle House. Now I have counted the number of Waffle Houses between New Jersey and Athens, Georgia (35), have seen the Christmas ornament, and believe there is a Lego set in the works, but traditional ads? Waffle House sells itself. However there they were this week, …
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 …