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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
We use the word iconic sometimes like we do the word hello. At every turn it’s too easy a word to throw around, when in reality must things we refer to as Iconic are not really worthy of that high level of praise or individuality. Icons should be rare air for all of us. Walking around …
If you work in and around communications in sports in North America, this is a week you should hopefully love, but you may hate. The convergence of winter team sports tied with mega events like The Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics make this a mad scramble for those looking to cut through clutter and …
I went to an early mass at our parish, St. John the Baptist in Hillsdale, NJ, and I am always interested and intrigued to what our pastor, Monsignor Peter Smutelovic, has in store for his homily. This week he talked a great deal about the faith that athletes exhibit, particularly the infectious enthisiasm Indana quarterback Fernando …
Earler this year I was catching up with my colleague Terry Lyons on ideas big and small, and we turned to the ideas of what needs to be brought to the table when trying to take a spark of an idea and make it bloom in a time challenged world. Like the book I was reading by …
A few years ago we had former Eagles star Brian Dawkins join us on the podcast where he talked about the importance of “Mental Wellness” and the things he did to try and deescalate situations while making sure that he was able to improve and deal with the issues we all face. I thought about …
The information gleaned from newsletters, if you can curate them correctly, is invaluable. One of my favorites is Offball, which brings me info on sports like pop culture I don’t find elsewhere. This week was a little ditty about “Marty Supreme” and the misframed message of it’s what…it’s a story framed around table tennis, not …
There were lots of debate on the NFL’s move into the Christmas Day lineup and how it would hurt the NBA or not and on and on. Would the NFL’s two latest partners, Netflix and Amazon, be hurt by the failings of what were thought to be elite matchups suddenly turned into also-ran’s…would the NBA …
W e are big fans of all cause marketing and social responsibility can do to make us better humans, so we asked my colleague Howard Brodwin at Sports and Social Change to give us a list of what’ was on his radar as we round out the year… Back (adverb) – in the opposite direction from which …
We get close to the end of the ninth year of our sports business podcast conversations with some really wide-raning discussions. Here are three recent ones below. You can hear them all here as we come up on a decade talking with the leaders across the board. “AI Probably Saved My Marriage.” One of the …
A few weeks ago, on our podcast with Dave Clawson we talked about the steep learning curve the universities are on in terms of communications and storytelling tied to athletes and even coaches. Clawson pointed out that the professionalization brought forth by NIL, along with the transient nature of athletes due to the transfer portal …
