McDonald’s USA LLC is giving gamers an alternative to Thanksgiving by teaming with the FaZe Clan, the game-focused media platform, to host a “Friendsgaming” day on Nov. 20. Click here to read the story at nrn.com. Discussion Questions: What is promotion? What are the different types of promotion? How would Read more…
Last month, NFL teams were able to submit proposals for co-marketing pacts with clubs in international markets independent of the league for the very first time. Click here to read the story at barrettsportsmedia.com. Discussion Questions: What is a global product? Do you think the NFL is a global product? Read more…
As part of the league’s 75th-anniversary celebration, the NBA has unveiled a season-long calendar, showing a detailed uniform schedule for all 30 teams on its Locker Vision website. Click here to read the story at espn.com. Discussion Questions: What is promotion? How might celebrating the league’s 75th anniversary be considered Read more…
In a challenging era for car sales, sometimes you need a team of superheroes to help get the metal off the lot. Lexus, the luxury-auto unit of Toyota, is joining with the Marvel band of altruistic aliens known as the Eternals, who are slated to be the focus of the Read more…
It was a hot Tuesday evening in August, and thousands of loyal New York Mets fans poured into Citi Field to watch their team take on the highly ranked San Francisco Giants. The stadium in Queens brimmed with hope, despite the team’s recent losing streak. The Mets lost that night, Read more…
The University of Nebraska announced in March that it would bring its multimedia rights operations in-house after having Learfield IMG College license the properties for the past 15 years. The move made the Huskers one of the few Power Five program to eschew a third-party MMR partnership, which has become, thanks largely to Learfield Read more…
Gearing up for a resurgence in travel, Seattle-based Expedia Group is refreshing its flagship Expedia brand with updated features across the company’s mobile app and more than 70 websites. As more people plan and book flights and hotel stays as COVID-19 vaccination rates increase, Expedia wants to be part of Read more…
Subway has worked with vegan grime artists to create a song that uses sounds emitted by plants to celebrate Earth Day. P Money and producers Star.One collected sounds at an urban farm from plants that are used in Subway’s plant-based menu, via PlantWave technology, which detects electrical variations through electrodes Read more…
Fan Controlled Football (FCF), the only professional sports league that empowers fans to call plays in real-time, will host its first-ever title game, which fans officially named “The People’s Championship.” Click here to read the story at sports.yahoo.com. Discussion Questions: What is competition? What is the difference between direct and Read more…
With many Americans avoiding spring break travel because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Cheez-It wants to deliver a spring break experience directly to someone’s door for a new promotion. Earlier this week, Cheez-It launched its “Cheez-It Grooves Spring Break-In-A-Box” sweepstakes, which promises to deliver “all the benefits a spring break vacation provides” to the winner. Click here to Read more…