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If you are a large scale player in the healthcare field these days, it certainly is not easy trying to set yourself apart. Trying to find a niche, delivering your message, and most importantly effectively and efficiently serving the needs of the consumer are all major challenges as the field goes through a constant ebb …
It is amazing that it is 25 years this month that the sports business world, just growing at the time, prematurely lost a legend, someone who set the tone and helped create the sports and entertainment communication industry as it exists today. His name was Mike Cohen and some called him “Inky,” because throughout his …
Yet another good ideas roundup as summer comes to a close… Brooklyn Goes For A Marketing Encore: The glare of the bright lights for a first successful season at the Barclays Center had not dimmed before the Brooklyn Nets started making noise for their second season…naming a new coach/old star and revamping their lineup to …
A little weekend roundup of some smart best practices the last week or so, all with a football tie… KISS Fans The Flames For AFL Interest: it has been years since the Arena Football league has been on the radar screen for most fans and brands nationally. The League which brought us football on an …
This past week an issue arose in Australian cricket that is one worth watching as the American professional sports landscape, and its fans become more comfortable and engaged with the issue of uniform commercial branding…namely, putting sponsors on jerseys. The talk for the last several years is that the U.S. professional sports will join MLS, …
When Microsoft first signed a deal with Major League Soccer and then a mega-deal with the NFL last spring, it raised lots of eyebrows as to what was coming. Windows 8 and the mobile world haven’t exactly been kind to MS, so was this a large scale advertising campaign or a multi-faceted program designed to …
There are few, if any, more well written and well-told series on broadcast than HBO’s “Hard Knocks.” No matter how mundane the day, the cameras of NFL Films, combined with exquisite direction and writing can deliver moving and impactful stories of the lives of previously unknown or little known NFL players like nothing else. The …
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, …
We all know in sports, timing is everything. So it makes great sense, especially in sports that use a clock to measure game length, that the timing category is of great value to both brands and properties, and in many cases, to athletes. Tennis and gold for example, usually have athletes with watch deals well …
Scarfing It Up In Dallas: There are certain rituals that are forever tied to a particular sports franchise. From singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” at Wrigley Field to The Bleacher Call at Yankee Stadium to “The Terrible Towel” in Pittsburgh or the lucky Octopus in Detroit, sports fans and their teams love those …
