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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
It has been a question for several years in the fight sport world. Is the market big enough in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts for more than one viable professional brand to exist alongside the UFC, or is it like professional football, where the NFL is king no matter what the market size and …
The date is hanging out there for UFC fans…November 12 at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The date that the UFC finally finds its way to broadcast television. The date where UFC fans think the sport will go mainstream and thousands of families will flock to Target to buy branded apparel and Brock Lesnar toys …
An NBA lockout (no summer league), an NFL lockout (no workouts), no Olympic prep and no baseball made the quietest day on the North American sports calender…the day after the MLB All-Star game, even quieter than usual this year. What did that mean? A chance for other second tier sports…other events, to own a day …
Much will be made of Sony Pictures “Moneyball” this fall and how it ill help baseball as a brand, or how the upcoming Lionsgate film “Warrior” will lift the brand value and casual interest in Mixed Martial Arts, but at the end of the summer the sport which again will win the big screen battle …
MLB’s fan-riven final spots for the All-Star team have always made for fun competition, and in the past few years the advent of social media components have driven the fan awareness factor to new heights. The teams have come up with a series of creative campaigns to drive awareness, making the old process of ballot …
Labor disputes in any business are never fun. We all want peace so that our cars are sold fairly, our pools stay open, our garbage is picked up and our teams play when they are supposed to. While fans grow frustrated with the current lockouts in the NBA and the NFL, the seasons are still …
Yes it’s lead in was a half hour Wonderbra commercial and yes the football vs. soccer comparison by Michael Strahan was unneeded and more than a tad insulting (or maybe it was more a statement about how far soccer still has to go in the States?), but “Brand Soccer” in the U.S. took another step …
For a while over the weekend it seemed like the “Bronx Zoo” days of the New York Yankees had returned, with a dash of 21st Century technology thrown in. The reeling Yanks had the Red Sox in town, a national TV game to play and were in the midst of their longest losing streak of …