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Chris Martin and Coldplay Better Stay Off the Internet Today

So: thoughts on Coldplay’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl? I thought it was a bad decision to book them

As natives of San Francisco and major football fans, you’d expect Metallica to be involved in Super Bowl 50 festivities.

The Super Bowl halftime show–all 12 minutes of it–is, for many, more important than the game itself. With a potential

About ten years ago, someone asked me why Coldplay was so popular. “It’s simple,” I said, “No one really hates

With the Super Bowl coming up tomorrow, our attention turns to TV commercials and the halftime show. Oh, and there’s

It used to be you actually had to watch the Super Bowl to see the big-budget TV commercials. Now many

Petrolheads have been waiting for Acura to unveil the all-new NSX supercar for years now. But the wait is almost

On this day in 1980–35 years ago–Led Zeppelin announced that they were breaking up following the death of drummer John

Earlier this year, we heard how the NFL not only didn’t pay halftime performers at the Super Bowl, but they

Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
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King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
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Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
Mark Silver