The Sports Site Marketing report analyzes how emerging media are delivering loyal, targeted audiences to sports marketers, who traditionally spend billions of dollars each year on television advertising and event sponsorships.
While TV continues to dominate as both a distribution platform for sports content and an advertising medium, online and mobile platforms are evolving, and will soon be an important part of the sports media and marketing mix.
eMarketer estimates that US advertising revenues at sports-related Web sites will reach $1.1 billion in 2011, up from $407 million in 2006. As a percentage of overall sports advertising, the Internet's share will double to 10% by 2011, up from 4.9% in 2006.
US Online Advertising Revenues at Sports Sites-, 2006-2011 (millions and % change)
Key questions the "Sports Site Marketing" report answers:
- How are sports leagues and sports marketers extending their brands from television to new media channels?
- What are the top sports sites around the world?
- Who is visiting them?
- How are the viewing habits of sports fans changing?
- How are marketers using the Web and mobile channels to increase their reach at major sporting events?
- In what ways are sports brands, video game publishers and fantasy sports services leveraging one another's audiences?
- And many others...