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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Was a pleasure to pen this piece for the North American Society For Sports Management (NASSM) that ran this week… Much is made about how to navigate the complicated and very fluid professional waters we are in today. As someone who has been at this for over 30 years and has spent the last decade …
Last week it was an honor to again be part of the Sports PR Summit, now with five years under its belt and led by Brian Berger. The event has grown in stature and information every year and the learnings again this past week were plentiful. We will to make an attempt to chronicle the …
We were visiting the University of Maryland, College Park and we noticed something unusual…a pretty clean slate of real estate that is readily available but never used. It is not the space above urinals or under the top half of bunk beds…it is literally the ground we walk on. Since then we have seen it …
It used to be a simple act of passage for families every fall. A local farm would carve a simple maze into its now depleted cornfield and charge a few bucks for kids to roam around for a few hours, then have some cider and donuts and go into a field and pick a pumpkin …
The following was compiled by grad student Kelly Carroll Another in as series from the Columbia University Sports Podcast, a 360-degree view of the sports business from the people leading it. Each podcast is approximately 35–45 minutes in length, and features industry insiders from all aspects of the business—from brand executives to startup founders to …
It was 10 years ago Thursday that I got the call to go down for a casual meeting with my boss Barry Watkins which turned into my last day at Madison Square Garden. Change of philosophy, roles, duties etc., and it was time to part ways after seven seasons that started with Jeff Van …
The college space in the sports marketplace remains one of the hottest, especially with the mega-ratings and brand engagement that the elite conferences bring. Couple that with March Madness, and smart marketing in the Mid-Major space, and college is at or near the top of many “like to haves” for brands. However what about below …
We hit the midpoint of brand awareness madness as the worlds of sports, pop culture and marketing move toward the Super Bowl at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans. There will be the usual hype around the ad campaigns unveiled during the game, a cavalcade of promotion that in some circles has become as …
The Ivy League certainly has the most elite group of Universities in the world, but in the sports marketing business, sometimes “elite” is not the word that comes up when talking brand sponsorships. “Creative” yes, “innovative” maybe. “Entreprenurial” for sure. Even with the successful intercollegiate hoops runs of Harvard and Cornell, and the consistent play …
Twenty five years ago, July 1, 1987, I was in my office at SportsChannel in Woodbury, N.Y. (where I was Assistant Director for Marketing and Public Relations) with a group of people listening to a new venture in sport, all-sports radio. Just after 3:00, the signal at 1050 AM changed from WHN, a country station …
