This week’s IEG Sponsorship Report brings interesting news of an on-going audit at AB Inbev designed to analyze and evaluate over 300 sponsorship agreements the company currently has with different sports properties throughout the world. The goal of the audit is to align AB-InBev brands with the new global sponsorship strategy that will be implemented […]
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MMAPayout: Detailed Report From E3 & Strikeforce Los Angeles (Pt. 2)
As 6 PM dawned upon E3 attendees, LA Convention Center workers switched off the power to all gaming platforms and commenced to pry the controllers away from the gamers. Sadly, we all knew it was time to go. Slowly the crowd filed out, eventually making their way towards the Nokia Theater area where Strikeforce conveniently […]
Lipton Brisk and Chuck Liddell
Earlier this month, Lipton Brisk released a digital short story entitled The Way of the Brisk: The Untold Story featuring UFC legend Chuck Liddell. Payout Perspective: The segment is really quite well-done and the perfect example of what we talk about here at MMAPayout.com all the time: the actual marketing or sponsorship activation directed towards […]
Tequila Cazadores Spirit Award
UFC 114 saw the return of the Tequila Cazadores Spirit Award of which Diego Sanchez was the recipient, prior to his bout with John Hathaway, for the following reasons: The Tequila CAZADORES® Spirit Award is presented to UFC fighters who have demonstrated honor and integrity both in and out of the Octagon. These nominees have […]
Network, Sponsor Positions on MMA Thawing
John Ourand and Terry Lefton of the Sports Business Journal have contributed an article to this week’s Fight Edition that gives us some good information on what current television executives and marketing industry people are saying about the sport. Television executives: When you ask John Papa if the added MMA attention means that ESPN is […]