Sports Marketing - The Marketing of Products Through Sport

The Marketing of Products Through Sport

'Marketing through sport' is a concept that that has been used since the 1980s but that also has increased in importance in the last two decades due to the growth and expansion that the different types of sports have enjoyed since then. “Marketing through sports” it is a marketing strategy that can be used in sports in two different ways. In first order, the use of marketing and promotion can be carried out through the sport or through the sports club. In the first case, the use of marketing is under responsibility of the different sporting associations, while in the second case, the responsibility falls on the different sports clubs. In this manner, marketing and promotion through the sport and through the club involve sponsorship, corporate events and boxes, licensed merchandise, names and images also known as “endorsement”, advertising through broadcaster, advertising such as advertising as ground signage/clothing/equipment advertising, promoting games, promoting using players/club/league or developing ‘business opportunities’. The peculiarity of sports is the issue that “sport is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.”This singular fact is used by marketing companies as an advantage because in this way every time the audience attempts to an event several times it will perceived the advertisements again and again, therefore the marketing of sports reflects different than in other usual areas or common industries, a wide field of opportunities and diversities for the different companies which operate on this field.