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The following was done by colleague Scott Huntington The Super Bowl is a can’t-miss event every year. The game is just one part of the overall festivities. The commercials are also a major draw, with last year’s Super Bowl 52 costing advertisers about $5 million for a 30-second commercial. The lofty price makes sense, considering …
Spending four productive Pre Super Bowl days logging lots of Fitbit steps from the Mall of America to Nicolette Mall and all spots in between produced some great experiences, meetings and observations. Here ya go… The Value of Radio Row: A few years ago the death of radio, or the spoken word, as a viable …
This past week the New York Times ran an extensive piece on the use of bots to build large twitter followings, and the amount of money paid by politicians, celebrities and athletes to become influencers in a space where brands look to size over substance. In the last few days big names such as Mark …
USFL, the AAFL, the NPFL. The PPFL, the ASPFL, the IFL, the UFL, the SFL. Know any of these? (the first one is not the viable spring league that eventually never made it to the fall after a growing spring option, it was another iteration that never saw its first field). Then you have the …
We can never get enough of good leadership stories, especially when they revolve around the biggest of challenges. One of the most unwieldy and complex of those challenges in the event space is the Super Bowl. Hundreds of groups, thousands of volunteers, multiple municipalities all have to be moving in lock step for the game …
Everyone has a favorite moment they have seen in person or witnessed on any media platform. But what about those moments through the eyes of those who were covering, or calling those great points of immortality? In I Was There!, compiled by industry insider Eric Mirlis, sixty-five of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and …
Events like Super Bowl give you a chance to catch up with old friends and colleagues, one of which was NBA social pioneer Jeramie McPeek, who was quarterbacking all the social for the Super Bowl Host Committee in Houston. Jeramie has more than two decades of experience telling stories and achieving business objectives through traditional …
There are so many great examples of hustle the lead to brand building, exposure and buzz: here are three for the week worth noting. Fatima And The Caps’: The value of just showing up always has its advantages. In December, executives from Monumental Sports had former NHL star Peter Bondra along on the trip for …
Now that the air has cleared about the Super Bowl and it’s slightly down ratings, record-breaking streams, unworldly comeback and the first-ever use of drones in a halftime show, some other thoughts and numbers to consider. eSports In The Mix, Kinda: While there were gaming commercials that made it into the game again this year, …
Spending four productive Pre Super Bowl days logging lots of Fitbit steps in and around the Bush Convention Center produced some great experiences, meetings and observations. Enjoy the game! The Value of Radio Row: A few years ago the death of radio, or the spoken word, as a viable piece of storytelling to a wide …