Through our firm’s ongoing Back to Normal Barometer, we’re continuing to pulse consumer attitudes on sports, travel and leisure. An emerging trend shows fan sentiment moving toward an inflection point. Our third wave of research, conducted just last week, shows nearly half of sports fans indicating they would currently attend a live sporting event without […]
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Findings and perspective from the initial waves of SLRG’s Back to Normal Barometer, informed an extensive New York Times piece on the potential long term impact of the current COVID-19 crisis. SLRG President Jon Last, remarks in the article, “We are seeing people really hesitant to get back to normal.”
Read More » For better or worse, there were three times that fate has given me a chance to measure a particular slice of public opinion in the midst of crisis: shortly after 9/11, during the Great Recession, and in the most recent weeks. Each time the goal was to understand the impact of these events on the […]
Read More » The lead item in the March 10 Marketing Insider on Media Post features research driven observations on the role of gamification in sustaining and growing participatory sports.
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The lead item in the February issue of ASGCA Insights, highlights some of the key findings from our third annual Market Trend Watch study. Course renovation continues to be the facility enhancement most desired by golfers at both public and private courses, according to golf course superintendents and general managers. That is just one result […]
Read More » Not that I’ve heard a plethora of jokes about marketing research, but perhaps the best one centers around a CEO ripping his hair out trying to figure out the answer to 1+1. After being further frustrated by the esoteric answers of his CFO and head of engineering, he calls in his insights chief to receive […]
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Compass Point’s Casey Alexander highlights SLRG findings in this comprehensive outlook for the year ahead in the golf equipment business.
Read More » One of the fun parts about sports marketing research is that we get to delve deeply into the mindset of fans. In both the qualitative and quantitative space, a number of research techniques that borrow from the social sciences are quite useful in getting past generic, push-button answers to arrive at the deeper emotive rationale […]
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SLRG’s Jon Last was again featured among other market research industry leaders in RFL Communications’ Annual Predictions Issue, weighing in regarding what the profession should be looking for in 2020.
Read More » In the December 2019 Media Post Marketing Sports, SLRG’s Jon Last reflect back on where we were at the close of the previous decade, and what has transpired over the ensuing ten years in sports marketing. Ten years ago in this space, as we entered the second decade of the 21st century, I wrote of […]
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