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Tag: sports sponsorship

  • How Brands Activated for Football Fans at Super Bowl LIV in Miami

    Before Jennifer Lopez and Shakira shook the house down with their halftime performance and before the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers, a plethora of Fortune 1000 brands took over Miami to score points with football fans in the week prior to the big game. From Bayfront Park, where the Miami Super Bowl […]

  • College Football: Inside McDonald’s Touchpoint-rich Magic City Classic Sponsorship

    Authentic sponsorship programs demonstrate a certain level of commitment. And for McDonald’s, the decade-long title sponsor of the 78-year-old Magic City Classic college football matchup in Birmingham, AL, that commitment extends beyond free food and into students’ lives as well as the local community. The McDonald’s Magic City Classic presented by Coca-Cola, which features a […]

  • CBS and IZOD Go Live with a Primetime Matchup Event for College Football Fans

    Sports fans are hungry for experiences beyond linear TV, and so are advertisers. To engage viewers and give IZOD a boost beyond the traditional media program for football, CBS Experiences created a live fan experience surrounding CBS Sports HQ, the network’s digital sports platform on CBS Interactive. The day-long event, dubbed the CBS Sports HQ […]

  • Fan Engagement: Five Brands That Aced the US Open

    The 51st annual US Open Tennis Championships kicked off with a bang, drawing in a record 68,000 fans on Opening Day of the competition (Aug. 19 to Sept. 8) at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, NY. In addition to catching all of the on-court action, attendees had the opportunity to […]

  • State Farm Q&A: On Entering the Esports Business as a Non-endemic Brand

    For brands that are non-endemic to the esports space and looking for an example to follow, State Farm should do the trick. Just this year, the insurance company announced a multi-year sponsorship of the Overwatch League as well as a sponsorship of the incredibly popular professional Fortnite streamer, DrLupo. The brand was also the first […]