Sport
Connecting Brands and Clubs
Sponsorship and Marketing consultant Rick Liebling looks at the links between top brands from European football (Sport+Markt 2009/10 study) with the Deloitte & Touche Money League of Clubs with some interesting results.
Fabio,’where’s your Scholesy’?
It was at a summer barbecue 10 years ago in a friend’s garden when my son Daniel dribbled past an array of international defenders, eliminated Mathew Upson playing a one-two with Teddy Sherringham and smashed the ball past a floundering Sasa Ilic in the plastic mini goal. Martin Keown remonstrated with his co defenders and Paul Konchesky simply laughed
App-solutely Fabulous: the new BBC Sport app is coming!
Article from new UKSN writer Alex Armstead, producer on the Channel 5 programme ‘The Gadget Show’. He discusses news that his week the BBC announced that, from April, it will offer iPhone applications for its news content; with a sport one to follow in June.
The Battle for Seventh? No Thanks
The Guardian’s ever-excellent David Conn’s report on Monday that the Premier League is proposing to introduce a play-off for the final Champions League place is the sort of story which gets people talking from the boardroom to the pub.
3 Powerful Players
According to a Sport+Markt survey, Sportswear brands adidas, Nike and Puma are the most recognisable football sponsors in the top five European markets. Nike, adidas and Puma all will play a key marketing role on the pitch during the FIFA World Cup 2010. Indeed, with 12 teams qualified for the event, adidas is leading the way, followed by Nike with 9 teams and Puma with 7 Federations attending…..
Interview: adidas Marketing Director Gavin Cowley on the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
Karl Lusbec interviews adidas Marketing Director Gavin Cowley to get his views on the first FIFA World Cup in South Africa; on the marketing activations, competition and also on how the World Cup will contribute to the social and economic development of the country.