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In 2018, Bud Light came up with the fun promotion around the Cleveland Browns breaking their losing streak, unveiling coolers throughout the region that opened with the team posted a long awaited win. This year, Pepsi unveiled a new buzzworthy and fun consumer promotion, tied to the renewal of their almost 40 year old partnership …
There was a time about 100 years ago (it was actually 1984) when then St. John’s Sports Information Director the late Katha Quinn caused quite a stir when a reporter, Clemson Smith Muniz of the Daily News, wrote that the elite Red Storm men’s basketball players were being put through “Media Training.” It was partially a response to Georgetown’s …
“It’s a model for how we should treat other people vs an artifact of the past.” -Andrew Constatino CBS Sunday ran a great piece recently on the reimagination of libraries as destinations of thought, creativity and community and how these once stodgy old buildings that were being made obsolete have become welcoming centers of new …
There are still seven. The amount of NFL teams that will hit the road for training camp as the 2022 season starts to take shape The Raiders are fully settled in in Henderson, Nevada this year, while the Rams still are awaiting completion of their facility and will spends a few weeks at UC Irvine …
So I had no idea NFL players could not do individual deals for one of the most lucrative categories in the business…alcohol. So kudos to Coors Light for finding a way…kinda…to get an all star endorsement without the actual endorsement, and using ingenuity and humor to cut through the clutter. The digital campaign has Patrick …
We are lucky to have a student from Elon University, Noah Zaret, working with us this summer. We have asked Noah to go back and break down some of the best episodes of the CUSP Show, the Columbia University Sports Podcast. This time we selected three hot takes…NFT’s, global soccer and the marketing of the …
This past week I was watching CBS Sunday when a story on the band Toto came on. Here is another of those iconic rock bands of decades ago still singing those songs for an audience that loves their sound. However it was not the idea of the vintage rockers that caught me, it was their …
I don’t know Joey Zanaboni, and really only came to know more of him through this Washington Post piece that talked about his lengthy career journey, issues overcome and more importantly the crux of the matter…how he created his own identifiable style, his own voice and how he brings joy to his job. As we …
Last year maybe we have had enough of fake news, because April Fools Day, at least on the sports side, was certainly toned down compared to recent years. This year though some athletes…Tom Brady again…a little LeBron James, The Buffalo Bills with alternate uniforms, and the most viral was now retired womens soccer star Carli Lloyd …
I love listening and learning from young people about what they see, what they enjoy and what makes a difference to them in the industry. Case in point was this week when I got to visit Keith Green’s class at Montclair State University. The beginning of the class was a discussion on the unusual things …