Best Practice

Internal audiences: The ROI booster hiding in plain sight

Internal audiences: The ROI booster hiding in plain sight

Jul 11, 2025

In focusing so intently on external audiences in sponsorship campaigns, it becomes easy to overlook your internal stakeholders: the employees, partners, and franchisees. These are not just approval-givers or brand guardians, but active participants in the partnership. Integrating the internal audience in a sponsorship campaign isn’t a fluffy HR exercise, nor merely a...
From Parliament to the Fringe: Who should fund the Arts?

From Parliament to the Fringe: Who should fund the Arts?

Jul 9, 2025

Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe, the world’s largest open-access arts festival, finds itself at a crossroads a month before its starting date in August. Amid growing calls to cut ties with fossil fuel sponsors, the Fringe is grappling with a question that resonates across the cultural sector: how to reconcile ethical sponsorship demands with financial realities in order to fund...
What happened to Manchester United’s training kit sponsor and why?

What happened to Manchester United’s training kit sponsor and why?

Jul 3, 2025 |

Manchester United have this week unveiled their new training kit for the 2025/26 season, but one thing is notably missing: a sponsor. This absence is more than a cosmetic issue. It signals a growing unease among commercial partners about the club’s long-term value. Key sponsorship exits United’s £24 million-a-year deal with blockchain firm Tezos expired at the end...
Climbing sponsorships could be the next big move for your brand

Climbing sponsorships could be the next big move for your brand

Jun 24, 2025 |

What happens when a subculture sport becomes an Olympic discipline, a $3.5 billion industry, and a Gen Z lifestyle touchpoint all at the same time? For climbing, it means a rare window where visibility is rising, audiences are premium, and sponsorship space is being snapped up.  With 50 million active climbers worldwide, surging gym memberships, and a growing IFSC...
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