Posts Tagged football
The World to the rescue
By Fernando Mexia - Economy , Society - 08/06/2010
Back World at last. A joy for football fans, even from the couch, which comes with bread under his arm. And that is the most important sporting event on the planet, with permission of the Olympics, will be a relief for the troubled economies of developed countries, especially for politicians. That's a fact.
Once you start the ball rolling on 11 June in South Africa, the global media machine will the crisis in the freezer to fill grandiolcuentes holders, and tremendistas forofistas equally, they will invite citizens to focus their anger and illusion in that the ball touches the bottom of the network. If faith can move mountains, football can move the world, at least a little.
The country will win the coveted cup half GDP growth of 0.7 percent over the previous year, according to figures from a report published in 2006 by Dutch bank ABN Amro after studying the economic impact of this competition different countries throughout history. Read the rest of this entry »
Super Bowl, a goal to the crisis
By Fernando Mexia - Columnists , Economy , Entertainment , Mary Benedict - 03/02/2009
Maria Benito, journalist
Super Bowl: The great festival of advertising in the U.S.
I do not know which of the advertisements issued before the Super Bowl American football final, after or during the broadcast was more fun, but says some regular Doritos and Monster managed to start the laughter. This is important. On the biggest night of the sporting year in the U.S. had to prevail optimism, but also restraint. Restraint and sacrifice, as Obama says, even though it paid about $ 100,000 per second (in some advertising the NBC had to discount because the rates were high in times of crisis).
What interests me the matter is that despite the crisis that affects us all has also caused some difficulty to major media event and sports (in that order) of the year in the U.S., the Super Bowl is the Super Bowl , as advertisers say, and again has taken the upper hand.
The football final, held on Sunday February 1 in Tampa, Florida is a great showcase of advertising, an event that still about 90 million people, one third of the U.S. population So each year marked records in the prices of advertising space, everyone wants to be there, although it is more profitable in the long term (to create brand), that short, said Tim Calkins, marketing professor at Northwestern University .
This year NBC sold the 30-second spots at $ 3 million, representing 11% more than in 2008. According to Nielsen data, prices have been rising steadily since the first edition in 1967, when he paid $ 37,500 for every half a minute, not bad ...
So even though some classics of the event have been withdrawn by the economic and image problems that would cause them to pay that amount when they applied for government bailout or announced the layoff of thousands of people, the Super Bowl has been economically successful. Reason was pleased with Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics, who said he was "delighted" to have sold all the spaces. Specifically, NBC Sports has achieved $ 206 million of advertising revenue.
Of those who have been this year, I want to highlight the case of Pepsi, which has invested heavily. In addition to buying three and half minutes (it was the second poster after Anheuser-Bush InBev) and issue a notice in 3D, the beverage company has signed an agreement this year to block its rival, Coca Cola, during the first half of the broadcast, according to the magazine Forbes .
So despite the recession in U.S. (The economy contracted by 3.8% last quarter) the Super Bowl is the Super Bowl and people needed a break, and have issued too many negative messages in recent months, he needed football, entertainment, and beautiful ... the ads show must go on! Tell that Springsteen, who got tickets to their spring tour the day after performing at the Super Bowl.
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