SLRG President Jon Last offers thoughts on the intriguing marriage of Under Armour and Muhammad Ali in a provocative Marketing Daily Piece By Sarah Mahoney Just days after launching its first basketball shoe with NBA superstar Stephen Curry, Under Armour has taken its game to the pantheon, signing boxing legend Muhammad Ali. The Baltimore-based sporting […]
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In his February, 2015 column, SLRG’s Last reflects on how recent activation by leading sports properties, effectively illustrates some of the basic tenets of the “connection planning” discipline. Every industry has buzzwords, though it has often struck me that sports, marketing and advertising over-index for the phenomenon. Since we live in a world where “internet […]
Read More » Marketing Daily’s coverage of Super Bowl advertising, contemplates the NFL’s domestic violence awareness PSA to run during the first quarter of the 2015 game. SLRG President Jon Last weighs in with his thoughts on the potential impact of the spot. By Sarah Mahoney The National Football League is hoping that a startling new PSA, set […]
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Gilford Securities’ Casey Alexander cites SLRG industry research in his annual assessment of the state of the golf market.
Read More » In the January Marketing: Sports, SLRG President Jon Last speaks to a number of fan behavior trends that will impact sports marketing in the year ahead. It’s January, and I actually succeeded in finding a little airplane time over the holidays to escape and think those deep thoughts that one is supposed to stew over […]
Read More »It’s January, and I actually succeeded in finding a little airplane time over the holidays to escape and think those deep thoughts that one is supposed to stew over when not plugged into the office 24-7. Sure, I was still contemplating the relationship between consumer insights and successful sports and leisure marketing, but these brief […]
Read More » In his December Media Post item, SLRG President Jon Last speaks to the marketing lessons that can be learned with the recent elimination of the football program at University of Alabama at Birmingham. I’m too young to remember the movie “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” but there was always something poetic about a title that conjures […]
Read More » In his November, 2014 Media Post column, SLRG’s Jon Last speaks to how an uncomfortable moment during a sponsorship activation, may have actually created marketing gold for Chevrolet. Quick quiz, sports marketers … in the two weeks that have now elapsed since World Series game seven, do you remember Rikk Wilde, aka “Chevy Guy?” For […]
Read More » In his October, 2014 Media Post column, SLRG President Jon Last speaks to some cross generational similarities between baby boomers and millenials and the implications for sports marketers. Last month in this space, I spoke to a need for sports marketers to think about multi-generational approaches in their brand development and communications strategies. Noting that […]
Read More » In his September 2014 Media Post: Marketing Sports column, SLRG President Jon Last speaks of the opportunities that multi-generational marketing present for sports properties. From a purely observational context, it strikes me that we’re at an interesting cross-roads in generational marketing. So much of what our sports fan and participant research focused on during the […]
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