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Engagement and Measurement Keys to Partnership Investing
In my most recent post, I discussed the need for marketers to shift from being buyers of sponsorship to investing in partnerships and...
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Oct 2, 2024
Are You Buying Sponsorships or Investing in Partnerships?
My recent work with a handful of brands seeking to establish or refresh their approach to sports and entertainment partnership has been a...
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Sep 30, 2024
Fast Break: How Tylenol’s NHL Partnership Delivered Immediate Results
In January, the NHL announced a new partnership, naming Tylenol its official pain, cold & flu symptom relief partner in Canada. In...
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Sep 25, 2024
Repeating History: Should Brands Resurrect Successful Activations?
Fall officially returned this past weekend, finally legitimizing the actions of the seasonal fanatics who began donning sweaters and...
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Sep 23, 2024
Fun with Numbers: Talent Fees, Interest Rates and Fraudulent Research
While numbers lie at the heart of all brand partnerships with sports and entertainment properties, three figures from this week’s news...
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Sep 18, 2024
Allowing Cookies: USC CBD Deal Portends College Sports Partnership Expansion
Sports marketers often refer to the fact that beer drinking and sports viewing go hand in hand when explaining the large sums of money...
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Sep 16, 2024
Rights Holders Face Strong Headwinds Securing CPG Partnerships
The term “food and beverage” is a common one, reflecting the natural link between products we humans eat and drink. But when it comes to...
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Sep 11, 2024
ATP-WTA Tour Commercial Rights Merger Would Provide Unique Opportunity for Women’s Sports Partners
An agreement between the men’s and women’s pro tennis tours to jointly manage and sell their media, sponsorship and data rights could be...
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Sep 9, 2024
Clemson Ventures a Sign of Things to Come in Collegiate Sports
Although one organization’s move does not signal a trend, the stars are aligning within college sports to reasonably expect other...
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Sep 4, 2024
Venue Accessibility Issues Provide Opportunity for Meaningful Partnerships
Among the many reasons sports and entertainment partnerships are popular with product and brand marketers is that a single sponsorship...
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Sep 2, 2024
Three Things Properties Must Get Right to Land Partnership Deals
In working with teams, event producers and other rights holders on their sponsorship sales process, I have found that setting collective...
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Aug 28, 2024
Where the Value Lies in NBA Jersey Patches May Surprise You
Data from a new research study sheds some important light on how—and how much--value NBA jersey patch ID delivers to sponsors. Since the...
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Aug 26, 2024
Take a Chance on Me: Brands and Properties Should Follow ABBA’s Advice
The admonition to be bold and take risks in order to achieve success is far from a new idea. Yet it bears repeating for marketers and...
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Aug 21, 2024
Real Sports Betting: Chelsea F.C. Gambles on Long-Term Partnership
A year ago, I wrote a post about the many questions raised by what has now been confirmed as Infinite Athlete’s one-year front-of-jersey...
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Aug 19, 2024
What You Need to Know When Partnering with Beauty Brands
As last week’s article in The Wall Street Journal summarized, the rise of women’s sports, the emergence of numerous star female athletes...
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Aug 14, 2024
Olympic Partnerships at a Crossroads: Which Way Will They Go?
Now that the Olympic flame has been extinguished in the Jardin des Tuileries and Tom Cruise is safely back on solid ground, how about a...
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Aug 12, 2024
Pitbull Names FIU Stadium: Who’s Got Next?
Miami-born recording artist Pitbull and Florida International University have announced a naming rights partnership for the school’s...
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Aug 7, 2024
To Park or Not to Park. That is the Olympic Activation Question
The first ten days of the Paris Olympic Games have not been lacking in exciting competition, headline news and developments, and, as...
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Aug 5, 2024
What Do Volkswagen and Toyota Think About Hyundai’s Olympic Campaign?
Websites and publications that review advertising creative have had a lot to say this week about Hyundai’s new “It’s O.K.” spots, which...
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Jul 31, 2024
Unsolicited Advice for Super Bowl Advertisers
From its inaugural visit to Las Vegas to the never-ending interest in the Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift romance, and from an overtime...
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Feb 12, 2024
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