Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are reuniting for a Super Bowl, and Michael Strahan's presence won't spoil it, for once. Strahan's SMAC Entertainment is teaming up with Fox Sports Films, BZ Entertainment and NFL Films on a pre-Super Bowl special, "The Madden Cruiser: A Bayou Adventure With Bill Belichick." Airing at 12pm ET ahead of...
The year is ending, so it's time to go back down the witches' road and bring you the can't-miss TV of 2024. ADWEEK's "best of" TV and streaming list is a little different from others. Though plenty of lists will include the usual prestige players, we're changing things up and bringing you the shows from...
Major League Baseball's winter meetings have been over for a week, but the organization saved one of its biggest swings for today--promoting Uzma Rawn Dowler to its new chief marketing officer. A 10-year MLB veteran, Rawn begins her new role in January and will report to Noah Garden, MLB's deputy commissioner of business and media....
Caitlin Clark had an effect on women's sports in 2024, but investment at every level of the game will push it into the future. The growth of women's sports in the United States has continued its upward trajectory since the Title IX education amendment of 1972 prohibiting federally funded schools from discriminating based on sex....
The National Football League (NFL) and creative partner 72andSunny are teaming up again for the league's Super Bowl 59 ad. The NFL didn't provide details about the spot. 72andSunny has produced the League's Super Bowl ads since 2019. The agency has also played a key role in its "helmets off" marketing strategy, which reveals player...
For brands sponsoring college bowl games, it's no longer enough to turn your cheese cracker into a mascot or burn your toaster-pastry mascot alive and have teams eat it in front of fans: You need to be the Snoop Dogg of postseason play. There are 47 bowl games that comprise college football bowl season in...
In the broadening sports media landscape, Disney Advertising is discovering that audiences booing opposing teams on Monday Night Football and saying "Boo-urns" over on Disney+ are often the same. Tonight's Monday Night Football matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals is getting the Funday Football treatment ESPN first deployed during the 2023 NFL season,...
In only its second year hosting the NFL Black Friday game, Amazon has had no problem staying on offense and moving forward. Drawing 13.51 million viewers to see the Kansas City Chiefs eke out a 19-17 win over the Las Vegas Raiders--and increasing its audience 41% from the roughly 9 million who watched the New...
After a record-breaking season, the WNBA's winning streak continues. A new report from data analytics firm Morning Consult, which tracks how consumers perceive thousands of brands each day, reveals no brand's reputation rose more throughout 2024 than the WNBA's. "It's rare that a sports league ever makes any type of ranking that we put out,"...
A Super Bowl spread is only as good as the cracker holding it. Ritz crackers is entering the Super Bowl advertiser lineup for the first time this year, with a 30-second spot by The Martin Agency, director Jake Szymanski (Funny or Die, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates), and production companies Gifted Youth and PXP....
As the 2026 World Cup approaches, The Home Depot is building toward a different kind of game day. This morning, FIFA announced The Home Depot as the "Official Home Improvement Retailer" for FIFA World Cup 2026 in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. With 2,345 stores across all three host nations, The Home Depot will...
NBA 2K and Genius Sports found the cheat code for drawing more fans to the 2024 Emirates NBA Cup: Turn it into a video game. As TNT Sports' networks and platforms show the tournament's quarterfinal and semifinal knockout rounds across its networks and platforms, NBA 2k and Genius Sports will use graphic overlays and in-game...
F1 Academy and its partners used the bright lights of this year's Las Vegas Grand Prix and its special events to introduce the sports and business worlds to the women driving its race series. In 2025, those F1 Academy drivers and their sponsors will have the Vegas street course and its Strip straightaway to themselves....
Amazon's Prime Video has its starting lineup of Black Friday NFL brand sponsors, and fans are about to be blitzed by shoppable deals. During ADWEEK's Mediaweek event a month ago, Amazon head of U.S. live sports and video sales, Danielle Carney, confirmed that the streamer sold out of ad inventory for its upcoming Black Friday...
Caitlin Clark capped a record-breaking college basketball career this year by shattering marks during her WNBA rookie season--and she's steadily scored points for State Farm and Disney throughout it all. Now that Clark finally has some time off the court, the WNBA Rookie of the Year is putting in a few extra sports marketing minutes...
