This week Japanese promotion Dream unveiled its design for a new hexagonal cage that it plans to use once every year for a special event. Dream made the announcement at a press conference for Dream 12 in which it not only revealed the design of the cage, but that the event would feature two hotly anticipated lightweight match-ups: Katsunori […]
SBJ: Sponsorship In-depth
The Sports Business Journal released its highly anticipated sponsorship issue this week. The in-depth feature is highlighted by a roundtable discussion with numerous marketing executives from several big name companies including A-B Inbev, Pepsi, Turnkey Sports Management, and others. Here’s a snippet, but make sure you run over to the website and check out the entire thing: […]
New TV “Stickiness” Measurement
TVbytheNumbers sheds some light on television’s newest ratings index, “stickiness,” which measures the percentage of a TV program actually viewed against the average percentage of all other programs in the time slot category. The metric is designed to assess how well “tuned-in” viewers are to a particular program. The system was developed by Rentrak and here’s a […]
Publicity at the Core of UFC Hype Machine
What are the keys to building an effective brand? Truth be told, there are probably too many to name or cover in a single sitting. Brand building, after all, is a complex, long-term endeavour with many different intangibles and moving parts. However, if you were to underscore the key to building the UFC’s brand, what […]
Golden Boy Challenges UFC, White
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports posted an interesting piece this afternoon detailing the results of Mayweather-Marquez, in addition to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer’s challenge to the UFC in regards to their PPV figures. Schaefer questioned the legitimacy of UFC pay-per-view results that were leaked. He said HBO is a publicly traded company that […]