Personalized home screens could cut search time while creating new opportunities for advertisers.
Jets sponsors no longer stop at the stadium gates. The New York Jets partnered with Outfront Media this summer to connect in-stadium sponsorships with out-of-home (OOH) inventory in key locations beyond MetLife Stadium, the team's home field.
Ads drove 95% more engagement than primetime, helping new drugs break through and older brands stay effective.
Fans struggle to find games, making pregame, postgame, and short-form content more valuable.
Being the official bank of the LA Lakers helps it woo a major target audience.
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Competitive rewards multipliers on essential categories can help co-brands capture spend outside branded purchases.
Lenovo's run as FIFA's official technology partner was more than a branding play, it was also a live demo of AI infrastructure and scale that the company can now bring straight into enterprise sales conversations, according to North America President Ryan McCurdy. FIFA named Lenovo as its exclusive tech partner for FIFA World Cup 2026 and the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 in Brazil. For the 2026 World Cup, Lenovo deployed and managed more than 25,000 devices and AI-powered infrastructure across three host countries, 16 cities, and 104 matches with 99.99% uptime across all instances, according to the company. That gave McCurdy's team a real-world case study of enterprise-grade AI at scale to point to in sales conversations.
Mike and Ike will also be a presenting sponsor for a major Dignitas Fortnite tournament, “Flavor Brawl,” held in October. This tournament will be hosted by esports streamer AussieAntics on his Twitch channel. The broadcast will include custom Mike and Ike brand integration, according to the company.
Retail media, loyalty, and sports marketing are helping counter the retailer’s Foot Locker drag.
Chase is challenging Amex on experiential rewards.
On today’s podcast episode, we discuss how advertisers can transition from World Cup storytelling into domestic league campaigns, what makes football audiences unique from an advertising perspective, the number that best encapsulates the advertising opportunity within the English Premier League, what makes America's Major League Soccer attractive compared with established European leagues, and more. Join Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Principal Analyst Bill Fisher, and Senior Forecasting Analyst Oscar Orozco. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube or Spotify.
Spectacle events surrounding sports are pulling viewership numbers that rival, and sometimes exceed, the games themselves. That creates new openings for advertisers to reach passionate audiences in low-stakes, high-excitement environments. Major sporting events reveal broader cultural trends. "Amazon is in such a unique position to give us an idea of broader consumer sentiment because of its scale and reach," our analyst Sarah Marzano said on a recent episode "In the Game." The same principle applies to sport-adjacent spectacles, which reveal an unsatiated hunger for collective experiences that traditional game broadcasts don't satisfy.
The old athlete-brand relationship playbook is changing quickly as athletes become creators. Instead of waiting for networks or press offices to shape their narrative, athletes are building the studio themselves, streaming from on their smartphones, with no scripts in sight on platforms like Amazon’s live-streaming service Twitch. When WNBA stars Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman turned the 2026 All-Star Weekend into a 72-hour Twitch livestream with a peak audience of 36,000 concurrent viewers, or when former Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown processed a trade to the 76ers with nearly 30,000 viewers, they were doing more than traditional press hits. They were talking directly to their fandom and sponsors followed.
Creator content rewrites World Cup viewing: Livestreams beat TV for many fans, giving brands new ad paths as media rights steer where audiences watch.
Capital One’s 20-year renewal ties the bank to a $1 billion rebuild and expands cardholder perks into a loyalty play.
Amex’s pop-ups need to captivate younger consumers’ attention as the cohorts gains buying power.
Media companies, tech giants, and retailers could face dramatic shifts if sports viewership declines, Meta loses billions in youth safety lawsuits, or AI transforms every product placement into personalized ad inventory. Sports rights spending is on track to hit about $70 billion a year by 2030, and every dollar of it comes out of something else. "The amount that media companies are paying for sports rights continues to climb. It's gonna be about $70 billion a year by 2030, and it's taking away from what they do otherwise," said our analyst Ross Benes on a recent episode of "Behind the Numbers." Three scenarios below look unlikely today. Each would rewrite how these businesses operate.
Football season is a delivery app season. As the 2026 NFL and college football seasons kick off, fans will be inviting friends and family over to watch the games, and they will be ordering the snacks and drinks to feed them. That gives brands a window through commerce networks to reach hungry fans on delivery apps, introduce new products, and help them plan the right mix for their guests.
Disney turns streaming into an ad engine: FYQ3 results show SVOD, sports, and parks combining to keep advertisers invested despite broader subscription churn.