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Times Square New Year's Eve Sponsors Team Up for Mobile Ball Drop Application

In case you were considering doing something crazy, like attending NYE in Times Square, now you can just dial up the experience on your mobile while you enjoy a warmer party elsewhere. The organizers of Times Square New Year's Eve, along with partners, Toshiba and Livestream, have launched the first official Times Square Ball App, specially designed for Apple and Android mobile devices. Nivea w...

Fiesta Bowl Accredits $1.5M in Sponsorship to CRM Software

Is sponsorship sales a new foothold in the broader battle between contact management companies? Salesforce competitor, Sage, is making a play for its share of the industry. Organizers of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl have been using Sage ACT! contact, customer management, and e-marketing solutions in their lead-up to this year's game, which will serve as the 2011 BCS National Championship. The Fiest...

SCVNGR, American Eagle Partner Up for Times Square Promotion

SCVNGR founder, Seth Priebatsch, says in his company bio that the goal for SVNGR is "to build the game layer on top of the world." On Friday night, SCVNGR will settle for being the game layer on top of Times Square. American Eagle Outfitters has partnered up with location-based gaming company, SCVNGR, for a New Year's Eve promotion in Times Square. Beginning today through New Year’s Day, anyon...

MLB, Anheuser-Busch Resolve Dispute & Renew Sponsorship Deal

Anheuser-Busch and Major League Baseball have renewed their exclusive sponsorship deal, making Budweiser the official beer sponsor of the league. The announcement ends a contract dispute between the long-time marketing partners that arose last month. Read More >>

5 Fast Interview Tips for Sales Pros

SponsorPitch has partnered with some of the top executive recruiters in the industry to provide our members with more opportunities for career growth. Look for tips from top recruiters here, more top level openings in the SponsorPitch Job Bank and new opportunities for talented professionals within the SponsorPitch membership base, who select "job inquiries" as a networking interest, to connect...

Is Sponsored Space Exploration About to Take Off?

Is the next frontier for sponsorship, space? Former NASA astronaut and current entrepreneur, Leroy Chiao, thinks so. His take from online think tank, bigthink.com: "As part of the new space policy of the United States, NASA is now in the process of figuring out how to seed and stimulate commercial crew access to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Because of these efforts, I predict that there will be an ...

Hawaii Tourism Extends PGA Tour Partnership

The PGA TOUR and Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) announced a four-year extension of their Official Marketing Partnership that will continue to help promote the state's golf industry through 2014. The partnership dates back to 2001 when the PGA TOUR and HTA aligned to highlight Hawaii's professional golf tournaments and the state's $1 billion golf industry. Hawaii today features more than 70 go...

Best Buy renews NASCAR sponsorship

Best Buy Co. Inc. has re-upped as a sponsor for Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Read More >> photo credit

Vladimir Putin Negotiates F1 Sponsorship

Russia's only Formula One driver, Vitaly Petrov, is to receive funding from state-run high-tech company Rostekhnologii following a deal brokered by none other than Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. AFP reports that Petrov, his manager Oksana Kosachenko, Rostekhnologii chief Sergei Chemezov, and Leonid Mikhelson, head of private gas firm Novatek, negotiated the deal in a meeting set-up an...