National Campaigns

EXCLUSIVE: ClearScore CEO Justin Basini on football, financial well-being and the company’s biggest sponsorship to date

ClearScore has re-entered the world of football sponsorship with a major new partnership spanning both the Emirates FA Cup and Adobe Women’s FA Cup, marking the most significant marketing investment in the company’s history. For a business built on financial empowerment, the move signals more than brand visibility, it’s about using football’s reach to drive real-world...

Big sponsor or small sponsor? Why smart brands back agencies, not assets

New sponsors often fall into the trap of believing that bigger automatically means better. The instinct is to partner with the most recognisable team or event the budget allows, to buy into scale, prestige, and visibility. But in sponsorship, size does not equal success. Big-name rights holders deliver reach and enhanced stature, but they rarely produce results without...

Media value vs market value: How to correctly price sponsorship

For decades, media value has been the go-to measurement for the sponsorship industry. The rise of AI-driven logo capture technology has only reinforced this reliance, delivering increasingly precise counts of how long and how often a brand is visible. Within its own boundaries, media value remains an excellent tool for benchmarking one sponsorship against another and for...

Manchester City settlement highlights importance of fair market value in sponsorship

Yesterday, Manchester City and the Premier League drew a line under their long-running dispute over Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules. The two sides confirmed a settlement, with City accepting that the rules governing fair market value (FMV) sponsorship deals with related parties are valid and binding. It ends a costly legal battle, but the significance of the...
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