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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
It’s kind of an interesting juxtaposition for team sports. As the four biggest American leagues all look to be more global, Major League Soccer looks to continue to better establish a global game in the United States, and their leverage continues to increase daily as not just the U.S. Men’s National Team continues its good …
Bobsled, can you make us watch the 2014 Sochi Games? With a U.S. Olympic team lacking lots of start power going into the Games, it may be bobsled, with technology on the course, and star-power off the course (on the women’s side) that may deliver the best branding stories of the Games, if all goes …
The Bridgestone Winter Classic on New Year’s Day is being touted as the best ever and impossible to top. True? Depends on your perspective, but for “brand hockey” this year’s New Year’s Day Game is even more potentially impactful than all the games held before as it becomes the launch point for the sport as …
Hockey takes Its Weekend: Five years ago it started with a series of disjointed events with little media attention in hotbeds across the country. However now, with the buy-in of a major corporate sponsor (McDonald’s), the media power of NBC and the marketing if the NHL, “Hockey Weekend In America” is continuing to gather steam. …
The post-game rioting aside, the recently completed NHL Finals between Boston and Vancouver capped what was another huge step forward in terms of visibility and brand growth for the NHL. Even in New Jersey, where the Devils horrific start doomed their playoff hopes early, New Jersey continued to make off-ice progress in growing their brand …
