Name, image, and likeness rights monetization is nothing new. In fact, athletes have been earning money this way for decades. Until recently — the moment that student-athlete compensation began to dominate the college athletics conversation — the term...
Despite millions of daily users, there are still plenty of people who are unaware of one of the most popular streaming services around – Twitch. If you’re a gamer or just a tech savvy individual who knows all about it already, you can skip the next couple of...
In 2018, Twitter, one of the most widely used social media platforms in the world, culled almost 10% of their user base that they discovered were fake accounts. 70 million accounts were dropped from Twitter over the course of the year. To put that in perspective,...
Athlete marketing is an art and science. While industry marketers are armed with actionable data, there are many variables at play when it comes to how a brand determines which athlete to work with. A brand may be after affiliation with a select superstar. Perhaps an...
Almost all media coverage of Name, Image, and Likeness has focused on the superstars. The Heisman contenders and All Americans in the most nationally visible sports of football and men’s basketball. But the student-athlete NIL opportunity doesn’t stop with...
You may have heard the term “branding” or “brand statement” tossed around in business books or articles before. You may have glossed over it, because why would you as an employee of another company need one. Or, you might think that branding just means a logo and the...
