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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
The NFL was the first amongst the major North American sports leagues to cut a deal with Amazon, three seasons ago giving Amazon Prime the rights to stream Thursday Night Football. The league has used the partnership to try a few things here and there, including having Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm become the first …
First let me say that eventhough we are both from Brooklyn, I have not met Joe Lockhart, but I have followed his career both on the pollical side and when he was at the top communications spot at the NFL. Like many who are so deep into the political world I may not always agree …
Make no mistake, changing the name and the brand identity of an organization; from Aunt Jemima to the Washington Redskins, is expensive and takes a great deal of time and effort to get it right. It also takes good businesses to be able to listen to the consumer over time and make decisions that can …
I remember exactly where I was when I met M. Quentin Williams for the first time. It was in the bowels of what was then called the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, and I’m going to guess that it was the fall of 1998. I was getting a tour of the facility from my longtime …
In a time when cause marketing is even more on the minds of young consumers, and as Super Bowl approaches, time to give a best practice shootout to a very simple idea that ties both together, and can help, with a simple act, move mountains. It is the Souper Bowl of Caring, which will again …
In the past few years MLB has held a weekend where players can express themselves with self designed cleats and other pieces of equipment, much of which is tied to cause. The NFL has selected one weekend every season for the popular “My Cause, My Cleats” campaign, which raises thousands of dollars for the cause …
A few weeks ago at the Sports PR Summit in New York we heard firsthand the brand reinvention of Michael Vick. From All Pro to prison to ow coach and commentator, Vick took is through his story point by point, with the honest and straightforward reality that makes him if not the best, then one …
It started as a simple way for players to tell their story last season, one which drew the ire of the NFL as a uniform violation, but one which has grown to be much more of a platform as players continue to find more of a social voice and express themselves in a positive and …
This week as the NFL kicks off, millions of fans across America will be engaged in ways big and small. Football, and the NFL especially, has become a cultural phenomenon beyond anything the original founding teams could have envisioned. As a global property, especially on Europe, the NFL continues to find its way, and no …
Sometimes when you are the biggest and in many ways the most influential it’s easy to rest on ones laurels. However if you are the Dallas Cowboys, as successful a brand as there is in sports regardless of position on the field, you seem to always find ways to stay on top of the business …