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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
It’s cheap, it’s simple, and it’s simple to understand. Those are some of the most forgotten goals for brand and marketing and PR campaigns in a world where we are all about multi-layer, multi-level complex engagement. That’s really why the Ice Bucket Challenge has worked, and helped really advance the cause and the funding for …
In the past two years the recognition and outpouring of well-deserved support for veterans has been outstanding, teams, leagues, brands in and out of sport have finally recognized not just that these young men and women are worthy of praise and support, but are also loyal and savvy consumers who stick with those who help …
It is late summer in New York. People are on vacation, there is a glut of sports news between the NFL, baseball winding down, the US Open, even The Barclays taking the headlines. So if you have an elite high school basketball event, what does one do to cut through the clutter? Location, location, location. …
It’s an Olympic year, so many of those sports that seem to hibernate from the casual fan start to rise up again, from wrestling to beach volleyball. Each will find their niche and hope to play off of a sentimental crowd on the world’s biggest stage to win recognition and maybe some endorsements or brand …
One of the more entreprenurial hustles in sport branding is finding ways to creatively capture lightning in a bottle, a few minutes of exposure as a result of timing, luck and smart thinking. Such is the case with people who were able to cash in short term on the Jeremy Lin craze, with websites, bootleg …
There was a time in the 1970’s when the Oakland A’s and the Pittsburgh Pirates sent that conservative baseball world spinning with a series out outlandish uniforms. The A’s would wear white Sunday and then switch between green and gold on various days, while the Pirates went back and forth between yellow, black and white. …
NHL teams will begin training camp this week, so it comes as no surprise that teams are looking for ways to find new revenue streams as the 2011-2012 season, one which may not have the backdrop of NBA competition against it for eyeballs and dollars. Therefore it was refreshing to see two teams, the Pittsburgh …
