Brand Focus

Multiple Sports

MotoGP and the McLaren Formula 1 team are investigating ways to remove fan tokens that continue to circulate on the exchange run by Turkish crypto company Bitci, despite both parties having cancelled sponsorship and licensing deals with the firm.
Football

Chipotle's chief marketing officer Chris Brandt tells SportBusiness Sponsorship about the brand's sponsorship strategy and describes how its recent move into F1 supports its long-term international growth ambitions.
Multiple Sports

Accor’s sponsorship strategy is focused on driving awareness and conversion for Accor Live Limitless (ALL), the brand’s hotel booking and lifestyle loyalty programme.

SportBusiness Sponsorship has canvassed the opinion of experts from sports legal and sports marketing backgrounds to ask what the UK government's gambling white paper will mean for the industry. Matthew Glendinning reports.
Multiple Sports

Frank Nakano, managing director, sport and entertainment, JP Morgan Chase, explains how the brand seeks to ‘alleviate customer pain points’ through its sports sponsorship agreements. Ben Cronin reports.
Multiple Sports

What’s important: Brand building and creating strong ties with passionate communities. Target sports: Football, MMA, jiu-jitsu, stock car racing.
Basketball

SportBusiness Sponsorship talks to Corey Plummer, chairman and chief executive of Olympic Entertainment Group and OlyBet, about the company's sponsorship deals with the NBA, NHL and DP World Tour.
Surfing

World Surf League chief executive Erik Logan explains how surfing's inclusion in the Olympics and sponsorship deals with brands like Apple are helping propel the property towards commercial maturity. Frank Dunne reports.
Cricket

SportBusiness Sponsorship speaks to Nikhil Bardia, head of sponsorship sales and talent management at Reliance Industries-owned Indian sports marketing agency RISE Worldwide, about the factors that are increasing sponsorship spending in the Indian Premier League.
Football

What’s important: Building deep relationships with consumers through sport.
Boxing

Gareth Griffiths, director, partnerships and sponsorship at Virgin Media O2, talks to SportBusiness Sponsorship about the refocusing of the telco’s sponsorship portfolio following O2’s merger with Virgin Media.
Football

High exposure and brand visibility are critical to any sports sponsorship deal agreed by Continental Tyres. Faaez Samadi speaks to Peter Robb, the company's marketing director for the UK and Ireland, about the firm's sponsorship strategy.
Multiple Sports

Investments from online betting brands in the sponsorship of Brazilian football clubs and competitions over the last 12 to 18 months have led to massive inflation in the value of sponsorship rights, even though sports betting is still not properly regulated in the country.
Aquatics

What’s important: Connecting with the grassroots and elite swimmers.
Multiple Sports

Last week the UK High Court of Justice found that virtual advertising firm Supponor infringed the patent of its rival Aim Sport. Ben Cronin examines the repercussions of the decision and asks if the company’s clients can also be held liable for damages
Multiple Sports

SportBusiness Sponsorship speaks to Pete Giorgio, global and US sports practice leader, Deloitte, to understand the firm’s growing sponsorship presence and its deal with the WNBA in particular
Football

The longer a new stadium goes without a naming sponsor, the harder it is to find one prepared to pay a high fee. Frank Dunne asks why teams from the most watched football league in the world so often struggle to land venue sponsors.
Multiple Sports

Coca-Cola has again topped the rankings for sports sponsorship awareness in Spain from a survey of Spanish consumers, despite the absence from its portfolio of one dominant sponsorship property in the country.