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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
I was lucky enough to spend a day and a half this week at the IMG World Congress of Sport in Naples, Fla. listening to senior sports and entertainment folks talk about many topics, including leadership. It was also fortuitous to be in the Fort Myers area and read about how the folks at Florida …
One of the opportunities and also one of the issues with social media is that the stream and the quest for information and access is never ending. The pipeline if you choose to use it, never really shuts off. So into that vacuum of information, especially for the consumer, comes the communications head in sport …
For the last few years men’s hygiene brands have used the sports space to lift awareness with a series of fun and engaging campaigns, the latest of which was their “Smelf” campaign starring All-Pro Wide receiver Greg Jennings for Old Spice. It was the next in a series of fun and irreverent campaigns that men’s …
Last week I was doing a visit to the College of New Jersey with my daughter when I noticed a banner for the Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk near the campus tennis courts. It seemed a little out of place but I remembered that a few weeks ago the company, which is publicly traded in …
Professional Women’s Soccer needs every break it can get in its third go-round. Two well-funded previous attempts to create a pro league have come and gone, and now a third version funded in large part by USA Soccer and some others with a stake in the game is going to give it another try. This …
It’s still a pristine sponsor environment for the most part, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, There is no on court signage, you have to look hard to even find a call directly to the tournament site NCAA.com (it’s on top of the backboard and sometimes on directional signage), and even with the huge social media …
Success is sometimes how you define it. If you look at the World Baseball Classic as a vehicle about American baseball and fandom, then you walk away from this year’s event scratching your head. Team USA, without the requisite stars, once again failed to reach the final round. So chalk up an L for the …
There are wide ranging numbers attributed to the number of dollars spent and people who play fantasy sports in the United States, but rest assured it is in the millions. Football is king, baseball second and then it goes down from there. The major media companies have found a jackpot in monetizing and aggregating fantasy …
Anyone who has ever been around minor league hockey knows that the challenge to fill seats can be even more daunting than for the toughest minor league baseball teams. Baseball is all about sun and fun and a family experience in the outdoors..an inexpensive rite of summer. Hockey is indoors, in the winter many times …
If you are a baseball fan living in the United States and watching or attending the World Baseball Classic, you may see an ad with former Red Sox Manager Bobby Valentine and others urging you to travel and explore the United States. Why would a company take out ads and preach to the converted you …
