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Wendy’s NCAA Sponsorship Sizzles with Supersized Visuals and a Growth Mentality

Event Marketer

Along for the ride was Wendy’s, the Official Hamburger of March Madness and the Official Breakfast of March Madness, which signed on in 2017 and, since then, has been growing its experiential programming around the sponsorship every year. Agencies: The Marketing Arm (experiential); VML (social content); Spark (media buying); Ketchum (p.r.).

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Sports Sponsorship Update, Part 2: How Brands are Driving Measurable Change for Women’s Sports

Event Marketer

Four insights on how women’s sports sponsors are working to level the playing field The phrase “a rising tide lifts all boats” isn’t often associated with competing brands. But when it comes to increasing visibility for women’s sports, sponsors are steadfast in their commitment to inspiring other brands to jump aboard.

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The Brief: Weed Sponsorships and Predictive Palettes

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FIVE THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover floating face serum, a smokin’ festival sponsorship and predictive palettes. THE CALI VIBES FESTIVAL WAS A TOTAL SMOKESHOW Music festivals and weed go hand in hand, but a cannabis brand has never served as a presenting sponsor of a major U.S.

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Pickleball Sponsorship: Four Tips for Engaging ‘Picklers’

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As the nation’s fastest-rising sport, pickleball is attracting sponsors from a host of categories as tournaments , tours and festivals dedicated to the sport continue to crop up. The PPA is involved with amateur games, so they’re making the sport super accessible. Let’s make this sport more accessible.

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How adidas Leveraged its Men’s World Cup Sponsorship to Spotlight Female Athletes

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So as the event’s final matches approached, the brand unveiled a set of three murals on the shores of Doha dubbed the “Beach Club Billboard” to underscore its commitment to ensuring equity and access for female athletes, and remind sports fans that “the game has two halves.” 18 in Qatar. Overwhelmingly, men were named.

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Four Sponsorship Tactics Chase Leveraged at the US Open to Increase Engagement

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Over the last four decades, the brand has perfected a successful formula for the event held annually in Queens, NY, with core elements that resonate with attendees, including the Chase Lounge, an indoor hospitality area for Chase customers with tournament tickets, and the outdoor Chase Terrace, introduced last year.

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The Brief: Cash Showers and ‘F*d Up’ Sponsorships

Event Marketer

Attendees are invited to walk through the social media-friendly spaces to take curated photo ops, while also getting a chance to literally be showered in cash at random times throughout the day. (If Much of the messaging was designed to celebrate Fabletics’ first-ever sports mascot, Fab Daddy, who takes the form of a giant letter “F.”