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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Sometimes the simplest of ideas are the best. How does one create a forum where both buyer and seller can cut through the clutter and actually find a solid partnership? In consumer goods and services it’s pretty easy, but in the world of sponsorship, especially in sports, the layers and the barriers between good deals …
No team, at least a good team, can operate as an island, but the Seattle Seahawks are trying to take their fans to one, at least for one pregame experience. The Seahawks in recent years, both on and off the field, have found ways to be innovative and successful at the same time. From coach …
Sometimes Americans in sports business are so caught up in the goings on in the lower 48 that we forget that there are some pretty smart best practices going on north of the border. The Blue Jays and the work MLSE has done from a marketing standpoint rivals anything in the U.S. this year, and …
Several years ago, Mike Vaccaro for the New York Post wandered into a legal betting parlor in London prior to a Giants appearance in and NFL London game and asked to place a bet. The clerk looked stunned, wandered away from the window and came back a few minutes later, telling him that it was …
This weekend the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins will play the latest NFL London game while just a few miles away Rugby World Cup will fill one stadium and Barclays Premier League soccer will fill another, making it one of the most diverse sports weekends in the UK in some time. While some may …
Walk into any Dunkin Donuts in the New York area, or travel on any highway or listen to any radio station and you see some of them: Eli Manning, Victor Cruz, Odell Beckham Jr., the individual faces of the New York Giants. Fans love em, businesses see a great uptick in business, kids wear their …
We love the stories of the underdog, the Vince Papale’s, who beat the odds to become at least for a short time, part of the largest sports stages in the world, are what millions of fans aspire to. Just to walk on that field or that court or that ice one time…what would it be …
As the NFL season officially and fully kicks off it is worthwhile nothing that another major rite of fall; October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, also got an early boos with the Susan G. Komen Run For The Cure this weekend. While the Komen Foundation has taken some hits in recent years because of its battles …
The phrase “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” has been used to death, but when you talk about a combination of sports business savvy and the food industry well…the shoe fits (to use another wornout phrase). Meet the engine behind a new emerging platform called “The Hungry Fan, ” media personality, sports business …
The land grab continues between FanDuel and DraftKings in finding ways to engage casual fans for daily fantasy. Until now, a great deal of that money went directly to ads and traditional marketing spends, along with some untraditional ones like Floyd Mayweather’s shorts and the saddle of American Pharoah. However with Fan Duel more committed …