In the evolving landscape of golf technology, striking the right balance between high tech and high touch has never been more important. SLRG President Jon Last and National Golf Course Owners’ Association Incoming President Whitey O’Malley delivered this data driven session at NGCOA’s 2025 TechCon. The presentation leverages new SLRG insights that explore key trends, opinions and adoption patterns from two critical perspectives: Golf course owners/operators and the golfers they serve.
Discover why John Dick, Founder and CEO of CivicScience, believes that paying survey respondents introduces bias and why shorter surveys offer better data. In this episode of Insights and Innovators by MRII, host Jon Last explores CivicScience’s innovative micro-survey method that scales to over a million responses daily without financial incentives. Learn about the evolution […]
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Maybe it’s because I’m a market researcher, or because I’m one of those people caught between the simplistic definitions of two generations, but a popular topic of late is how to deliver sports content in the most inclusive way. Hopefully, we can all embrace the marketing mantra of “meeting customers where they are.” But what […]
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Guests: Casa de Campo Resort and Villas’ Gilles Gagnon, golf director emeritus, and Jason Kycek, director of sales and chief marketing officer. Description: For 50 years, Casa de Campo Resort and Villas in La Romana, Dominican Republic, has been an innovative resort that continues to break new ground in the Caribbean. Gagnon and Kycek unpack the impetus […]
Read More » Clutter has become a bit of a double-edged sword in sports marketing. On the positive side, the proliferation of innovative new promotional inventory has opened up sponsorship to a deeper array of brands across a wide swath of categories and investment levels. Still, all this variety behooves brands to be more creative in developing activations […]
Read More » On this episode, Jon Last, President of Sports and Leisure Research Group, is joined by Nancy Smith, President & CEO of Analytic Partners. Dive into the evolution of analytics and how companies can make smarter, quicker decisions in a competitive landscape. Discover the concept of ‘commercial analytics’, the impact of rapid technological advancements, and how […]
Read More » Guest: Jon Schultz, founder, EZLocator. Description: Jon Schultz and his company, EZLocator, are making it easier for golf course superintendents to automate hole location selection. The process helps preserve the health of the greens and enhance the player experience. Schultz joins Sports and Leisure Research Group’s Jon Last and David Klein for a candid and insightful look at how […]
Read More » Unlock the secrets of the evolving media landscape! Join our host, Jon Last, President of Sports and Leisure Research Group, and his guest, Helen Katz, EVP of Research at Publicis Media, as she delves into transformative changes in media and advertising. Discover how identity solutions and first-party data drive more effective targeting, understand the complexity […]
Read More » Discover the transformative power of behavioral data and customer centricity in this episode of MRII’s Insights and Innovators podcast, hosted by Jon Last, President of Sports and Leisure Research Group. Join a thought-provoking conversation with Pete Fader, a pioneer in customer lifetime value analytics and Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School. Explore what drives […]
Read More » It’s August — a time when the sports media vaults full throttle into football mode. Of course, one could maintain that it is always football mode, and that’s a scenario that may only become more amplified after last week’s ESPN acquisition of several NFL media assets, in exchange for a 10% league equity position in […]
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