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This Mama Keeps Going – Chase & the United States Tennis Association
In 2019, Chase expanded on its 2018 US Open #ThisMama campaign with Serena Williams, again firing a conversation and debate about motherhood and work.
Ace for Inclusion – ANZ & Tennis Australia
For its 2018 and 2019 Australian Open activations, ANZ sought to burnish its corporate reputation by replacing Novak Djokovic with wheelchair champion Dylan Alcott as the face of ANZ tennis.
Your Game, Your Beat, Your Bank – Commerzbank & the DFB
Commerzbank activated its German women’s national team rights with deliberately provocative creative around the women’s world cup from May to July 2019.
A Liverpool Story – Standard Chartered & Liverpool FC
March 2020 saw Standard Chartered celebrate a decade of Liverpool FC sponsorship with a blockbuster film called ‘A Liverpool Story’, which emphasised the values of determination and long-term commitment.
Team Up – Nedbank & Premier Soccer League
Nedbank, title sponsor of South Africa’s top club football cup, activated its rights around the May 2019 final to aid the response to flooding in host province KwaZulu-Natal.
The Match Against Bullying – Swedbank & the Swedish Football Association
‘The Match Against Bullying’ was a cause-led initiative by the Swedish FA and national stadium sponsor Swedbank, working in tandem with the Friends charity.
Game Changers – ABN Amro & Rotterdam Ahoy
ABN Amro, title sponsor of the Rotterdam Open as the World Tennis Tournament, created a multi-faceted activation that turned 50,000 tennis balls destined for landfill into four products and a playground.
Purple Cam – BNP Paribas Fortis & RSC Anderlecht
In 2018-19, BNP Paribas Fortis’ season-long ‘Purple Cam’ stadium selfie initiative gave every RSC Anderlecht fan an exclusive photo-led experience within the team’s Constant Vanden Stock Stadium.
Hear the Kop Roar – Standard Chartered & Liverpool FC
Liverpool and shirt sponsor Standard Chartered teamed up on an initiative to help eliminate avoidable blindness, activated at Anfield through an audio ‘Kop Roar’ experience.
AFL Women’s naming rights – National Australia Bank & the Australian Football League
National Australia Bank (NAB) aligned its assets across the AFL and AFL Women’s competition to meet their brand awareness and affinity objectives and build a strong rapport across AFL’s fan base.
Stand Red – Standard Chartered & Liverpool FC
Standard Chartered used the ‘Stand Red’ campaign to reinforce its partnership with Liverpool during the club’s Champions League-winning season.
Santander’s LaLiga extension aligns title deal with Champions League cycle
Spanish bank Santander has extended its LaLiga title sponsorship by one season – 2020-21 – at a similar fee, SportBusiness Sponsorship has learned. The deal was signed in March.
Barclays pays up to seize Women’s Super League opportunity
The deal is the largest ever sponsorship investment in UK women’s sport and comes less than a year after the league went fully professional in September 2018.
Santander gets another year to review LaLiga options
Santander’s one-season title sponsorship extension with LaLiga for 2019-20 was priced at the same rate as the original deal, SportBusiness Sponsorship has learned.
HSBC signs record deal with Rugby Sevens Series
Global bank HSBC has renewed its Sevens Series title sponsorship with World Rugby from 2019-20 to 2022-23.
Everton players star in Blackwell Global #BluesChallenge demo
Blackwell Global and Everton
Sponsorship title: Blackwell Global #BluesChallenge
Duration of sponsorship: 2017-2022
Entered by: Blackwell Global
Sponsor’s industry sector: Financial Services
Liverpool gets pay rise from Standard Chartered
Asia-facing banking group Standard Chartered has agreed to a 42.8-per-cent price increase in its renewed deal for the main shirt rights to English Premier League club Liverpool.
HSBC and Rugby Sevens: Interview with Leanne Cutts, HSBC group general manager and group head of marketing
With the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens reaching its conclusion this weekend, Sports Sponsorship Insider spoke to HSBC's marketing chief about the event, the HSBC Sevens World Series and the bank’s wider p…
Santander extends move from F1 to football with UCL deal
Spanish banking group Santander has become an Official Sponsor of the Uefa Champions League for the three seasons from 2018-19 to 2020-21.
Sponsorship in the financial services sector, 2017
Research by Sports Sponsorship Insider into the financial services sector has generated rights values to 148 out of 430 recorded financial services sector sponsorship deals, worth €871.8m ($1,033m) per year, at an average deal value of €5.7m per year.
Activation Tracker: Activation trends in the financial services sector
Sports Sponsorship Insider has published the third ‘Activation Tracker’ sector report into activation trends in sports sponsorship – this month exploring the financial services sector, from banks and ins…
Santander Germany: At home with Mönchengladbach partnership
Santander Consumer Bank, the German subsidiary of Spanish banking group Banco Santander, has renewed its second-tier partnership with Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach to communicate values of …
Santander reinvests in resurgent Mönchengladbach
The German subsidiary of Spanish banking group Banco Santander has renewed its second-tier partnership with resurgent Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach in a five-year deal from 2017-18 to 2021-22.
French Open secures increase but on BNP’s terms
Financial services company BNP Paribas has extended its Main Partner sponsorship of tennis’s French Open until 2021 for an increase but at a value below the French Tennis Federation’s (FFT) asking price.