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Sports Media Marketing Summit

The PromaxBDA Sports Media Marketing Summit & Awards is a professional development event focused on the issues, trends and emerging opportunities crucial to success in sports media marketing. The packed half-day event is an all-inclusive forum for common thought, bonding and community for sports media marketing and promotion executives.


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date & time

March 4, 2013

location

The Paley Center for Media

25 West 52 Street

New York, NY 10019

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current price

Summit Only - $199

*The use of The Paley Center for Media’s facilities does not constitute endorsement by The Paley Center of any views expressed during this event.


overview

Building upon the success, excitement and industry support, this year's Sports Media Marketing Summit will provide the critical insights, information and innovations effecting the sports marketing industry today. The packed half-day event is an all-inclusive forum for common thought, bond and community for sports media marketing and promotion executives. 

The Sports Media Marketing Summit is a part of PromaxBDA, the leading global resource for education, community, creative inspiration and career development for marketing, promotion and design professionals within the entertainment/information industry.

schedule

Sports Media Marketing Summit Schedule

Below is a preliminary schedule for the PromaxBDA Sports Media Marketing Summit. In the coming weeks we will begin to add sessions and speakers to the schedule. Please check back often for updates.

Monday, March 4

12:00 p.m. Registration Open- Light Lunch Served
The Paley Center Lobby

1:00 p.m. Conference Welcome
Bennack Theater

  KEYNOTE: Redefining Opportunity on the Superfan Continuum
Bennack Theater

Speaker:
John Rood, EVP, Sales, Marketing & Business Development, DC Entertainment

2:15 p.m. Extending the Brand Story Arc
Bennack Theater

Moderator:
Jonathan Block-Verk, President & CEO, PromaxBDA
Speakers:
Tom Bass, Head of Social Media & Consumer Relations, 2K Games
Kelly Dunne, SVP, CBS Sports Marketing
Christopher Hercik, Creative Director, Sports Illustrated
Walter Levitt, EVP, Marketing, Comedy Central


3:00 p.m. NETWORKING BREAK

3:30 p.m. The Sports Fan of the Future presented by Google
Bennack Theater

Moderator:
Mike Lorenc, Head of Industry, Ticketing and Live Events, Google Inc.
Speakers:
Lisa Baird, CMO, United States Olympic Committee
Stephen Master, SVP, Sports, Nielsen
Richard Ting, EVP & Global Executive Creative Director, Mobile & Social Platforms, R/GA

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4:15 p.m. Beyond the Bobblehead: Best Practices in Brand Integration
Bennack Theater

Moderator:
Carol Kruse, SVP, Marketing, ESPN
Speakers:
Bob Cramer, VP, Sports Marketing & Partnership Management, Coca-Cola North America
Brian Jennings, EVP, Marketing, NHL
Jeff Shifrin, President, Octagon

5:00 p.m. Screening: The Best of Sports Media Marketing
Bennack Theater

6:00 p.m. Closing Reception
Paley Center Lobby/ Steven Spielberg Gallery

sessions

The Best of Sports Media Marketing
Sit back and relax while watching a curation of best and current work in the sports media marketing space. From television sports channel and program marketing to big league campaigns; from the highest level creative from teams around the nation to the best of brand integration, this session will inform, inspire and enlighten all levels of creative marketers.  


Beyond the Bobblehead: Best Practices in Brand Integration
Reaching a sponsorship agreement is only the first step in ensuring cohesive and integrated brand partnerships; the hard part comes with crafting new, creative and innovative programs that help you maximize those partnerships and design new value paradigms in sponsor integration. In this session, you’ll learn how teams, leagues and networks have expanded their brand partner relationships and increased revenue and reach by fashioning some of the most extraordinary integrations in sports. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how the industry’s best continue to expand beyond typical sponsorships by developing unique opportunities for their brand partners.

Moderator:
Carol Kruse, SVP, Marketing, ESPN
Speakers:
Bob Cramer, VP, Sports Marketing & Partnership Management, Coca-Cola North America
Brian Jennings, EVP, Marketing, NHL
Jeff Shifrin, President, Octagon


Extending the Brand Story Arc
Keeping the sports media fan and viewer engaged is the key to protracted relationships, loyalty and profit. In this riveting discussion, you'll learn how some of the best sports media brands are using social platforms, long and short form content and earned media to push audience and fan engagement past the core experience and fostering deeper, longer and more profitable experiences.

Moderator:
Jonathan Block-Verk, President and CEO, PromaxBDA
Speakers:
Tom Bass, Head of Social Media & Consumer Relations, 2K Games
Kelly Dunne, SVP, CBS Sports Marketing
Christopher Hercik, Creative Director, Sports Illustrated
Walter Levitt, EVP, Marketing, Comedy Central


Redefining Opportunity on the Superfan Continuum
John Rood, one of the media industry's most accomplished marketing executives, looks at emerging opportunities at the intersection of sports and entertainment, and provides unprecedented insight into how the biggest characters, stories and brands are created, marketed and monetized across platforms and technologies.

Speakers:
John Rood, EVP, Sales, Marketing & Business Development, DC Entertainment


The Sports Fan of the Future presented by Google
Whether live, on television, alone or in a group, the spectrum in which sports fans consume, participate and engage with sports brands will experience a seismic shift in the coming five years. In this insightful presentation, leading digital and experiential experts from the industry’s most innovative agencies, teams, leagues and network brands look into the future of the sports experience and provide staggering predictions of what fan engagement looks like, five years from now.

Moderator:
Mike Lorenc, Head of Industry, Ticketing and Live Events, Google Inc.
Speakers:
Lisa Baird, CMO, United States Olympic Committee
Stephen Master, SVP, Sports, Nielsen
Richard Ting, EVP & Global Executive Creative Director, Mobile & Social Platforms, R/GA

Sponsored by:

speakers

more information coming soon.

location

PromaxBDA Sports Media Marketing Summit will take place at The Paley Center for Media in New York City.

The Paley Center for Media
25 West 52 Street
New York, NY 10019

sponsors

Title Sponsor:



Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an award-winning journalistic enterprise that was born in print nearly 60 years ago and today includes commercially successful and critically-acclaimed digital, productions, marketing, books, golf, kids and international business divisions.

Sponsors:



Google

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.



Cartoon Network "Hall of Game"

More information coming soon.



Nielsen

Nielsen is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and related properties. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA and Diemen, the Netherlands.

 

Design Partner:



SPACEJUNK

At Spacejunk we combine infinite imagination, engineered strategy, and otherworldly execution for brands and networks. Spacejunk: Made in Space, Delivered to Earth.

 

Creative Partner:



SLAQR

We are SLAQR.

We are SLAQR. We define the best of that a brand is and reach people’s souls with it. Our inspired thinking and mastery of crafting picture and sound has allowed us to collaborate with the biggest talents in entertainment and emerging cultures. Our goal is to work only with those that align with our message. Creativity and imagination-first and always

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