How can brands embrace the Games Wide Open ethos of Paris 2024? June 15, 2024 The Paris 2024 Olympics has chosen “Games Wide Open” as its slogan for the summer. Leo O’Mahony, Junior Strategist at firm Imagination, looks at how sports brands can embrace the ethos and how they must adapt to changing and evolving audiences. Sports brand messaging since the Nike boom in the 1980s has been about the [...]
US Open prize money 2024: How much can golfers earn at Pinehurst this week? June 15, 2024 The total pot has increased to $21.5m, up 7.5 per cent, but the winner’s share has rocketed by 20 per cent to $4.3m.
T20: £180m IPL franchise brand values ranked in new data June 15, 2024 The business value of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has risen to $16.4bn while the brand value has increased in 2024, according to a report. The Chennai Super Kings reportedly now have a brand value of $231m with all but one side – the Lucknow Super Giants – coming in above $100m. The data, from [...]
Euro 2024 squad value: How much is each team worth? June 14, 2024 It’s fair to say football is awash with cash. And these Euro 2024 Championships in Germany are no different. While there is money swimming around in sponsorship and broadcast deals and in prize money, the squad valuations across the 24 teams show the huge differences between sides. But, of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean success. [...]
Who are ya? Questions swirl about Premier League side Crystal Palace’s new gambling shirt sponsor June 14, 2024 Questions are swirling around Crystal Palace’s new front-of-shirt sponsor - a little-known Vietnamese gambling firm that appears to have no functioning UK website.
Redgrave backs Brits to row their way to Paris 2024 gold June 14, 2024 Sir Steve Redgrave has backed Britain’s rowers to top the medal table at Paris 2024 just three years after their worst Olympic showing in nearly 50 years. In Tokyo, Team GB won just two medals in rowing, a silver, and a bronze, leaving them down in 14th position in the sport, failing to win a gold medal for [...]
Euro 2024 prize money: How much can teams win in Germany? June 14, 2024 The team that wins this year’s Euro 2024 Championship in Germany could pocket themselves £28,250,000 in prize money. Data from the Uefa Financial Report, crunched by Football Benchmark, has shown that prize money for this year’s Euros, which begins on Friday 14 June, has not changed since the 2020 tournament. But teams can still cash [...]
Euro 2024 sweepstake: Who will win the City A.M. Euros title? June 14, 2024 City A.M. towers has Euro 2024 fever and to celebrate we have gone all in with a sweepstake, with Jameson’s prizes on the line. Journalists and editorial drew from the hat. Some were overjoyed, others expressed despair, as they revealed their country to the City A.M. TikTok account. Euro 2024 Group A will see our [...]
Holy shirt! England fans face £4,000 fines for wearing fake jerseys at Euros June 13, 2024 England and Scotland fans could be fined £4,000 if they wear a counterfeit football jersey at the Euros this summer. German laws on trademarks mean police can do spot checks on tourists and slap fans with fines of up to £4,000 for knock-off kits. It means Brits abroad will need to be vigilant and stay [...]
Formula E changes hands as Liberty takes controlling stake June 13, 2024 Multinational telecommunications company Liberty Global are set to take a controlling stake in Formula E in a major move for the electric racing league. Liberty Global is set to acquire the shares held by Warner Bros. Discovery, subject to the deal going through, to take its holding to 65 per cent. Liberty Global is not [...]