In his December Media Post article, SLRG President Jon Last recalls how today’s media landscape has increased the likelihood of marketing ROO/ROI mis-attribution, how to avoid it and the implications for sports marketing. A subtle underpinning of my piece last month was the assertion that with such a proliferation of sports-related media and exposure opportunities, […]
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EWGA Connections
The November 26th issue includes coverage of SLRG President and EWGA Board member Jon Last’s white paper on the outlook for sports travel in 2014. The brief whitepaper was presented as part of the recent TTRA/US Travel Association Market Outlook Forum in Chicago.
Read More »The Transformation of Marketing’s “Fourth P”
In November’s column, SLRG President Jon Last speaks to how the proliferation of vertical sports media has presented new strategic necessities for sports marketers looking to optimize the impact and effectiveness of their communications with sports fans. I still remember the first session of my introductory marketing class at Wharton, where the professor outlined the […]
Read More »POV: A Unique Inflection Point for Sports Media/Communications Strategies
As referenced below in our recap of recent research of interest and in SLRG President Jon Last’s November Media Post column, 2013 has afforded us numerous opportunities to examine the evolving ways in which consumers engage in various sports and leisure related communications. It’s easy to make generational assumptions and buy into convenient marketing opinion […]
Read More »Throwing The Baby Out With The Bathwater: R.I.P. EA NCAA Football
In the October 2013 Media Post, SLRG’s Jon Last laments the death of EA Sports’ college football game franchise as a possible foreshadowing of how the legal turmoil swirling around the NCAA could erode the brand’s equity. Call me old school, but for a long time I’ve been less than comfortable with the proposition of […]
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