Mar 03 2009

NBA All Star and Social Media Usage

Kategori: NBA,Sports MarketingCeyla Kütükoğlu @ 5:10 pm

Facebook All StarTwo weeks ago 58th of All Star match has been played in Phoenix. The match won by West Conference with 146-119 score an it brought a very good match and lots of fun. I would like skip the fun part of the match and talk about the efforts of All Star players before the match in order to be selected.

Every year, All Star team line up is selected according to voting among fans. In previous years, we had seen foreign players to boost their votes by mobilizing their whole nation. Especially Yao Ming which has a 1.5 billion Chinese population as a support, is the luckiest guy in All Star selection. The American players on the other hand, are trying new methods to get fans’ votes. The most interesting aspect of this year voting campaign is increasing social media tools usage among NBA players.

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Feb 03 2009

Super Bowl – Return on Investments

Kategori: Media,NFL,Sports MarketingCeyla Kütükoğlu @ 5:30 pm

Super Bowl Ads The 24-18 victory of Pittsburg Steelers’ on Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII which played in Sunday was the one of the greatest match in history of Super Bowl. So who cares? Of course many NFL fans care, but when we look at the rest all we can see there is only one thing that everybody talks about and makes analyzes about: the Ads!!

For American marketers and advertisers, Super Bowl evolved to be an extended band of ad in which a match is broadcasted in the reaming time. When you search for Super Bowl, you came across with ad analyses, video sites publishing the ads and many ad comments sites. You can find after 10 minutes even the score of this important and interesting game.

In my previous article, I mentioned that the 30 second spot of Super Bowl costs 3 million dollars. That means the worth of one Super Bowl ad is increased 13% despite the economic downturn. According to number revealed after the game, the broadcast channel of the game, NBC, has gained 206 million dollars just from the game. I would like to make a comparison with Turkish market. The revenue of Super Bowl is the same as the entire revenue of outdoor advertising in Turkey in one year. In total 32 advertiser advertised with at least 3 different ads to Super Bowl. And %85 of them paid 3 million dollars ,the maximum amount of money, per ad. NBC started to sell Super Bowl ads back in October 2008 and the bidding continued to the last minute before the game start. Last minute ad sales are also very common in Turkish TV advertising market specifically for sports events.

So, for advertiser how much is the return on investment, considering that they are investing so heavily to a single match?

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Jan 17 2009

Career High Points in One NBA Game

Kategori: NBACeyla Kütükoğlu @ 4:47 pm
Wilt Chamberlain

Wilt Chamberlain

Last week our Mehmet Okur (a.k.a Memo) has reaced is career high in one game and scored 43 points against Indiana Pacers. I made a research about all NBA players who scored more than 40 points in a single game. The record belongs to Wilt Chamberlain who scored 100 points against New York Knicks in 1962. Among the active players, the record breaker Kobe Bryant hold the record with 81 points and becames second after the Wilt Chamberlain in all history of NBA. The number of players which scored more than 60 points in a one game is currently 21.

When we look at foreign players of NBA, Tony Parker and Dirk Nowitzki are on top of list with 55 and 53 points respectively. Mehmet Okur is currently ahead of Yao Ming and Peja Stojakovic. You can find the whole list of players and their career high scores here.

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