Sponsorship & Marketing

FIFA’s marketing and competitions director, Michael Black, has quit his job – less than 12 months before the World Cup kicks off in Japan and South Korea.

SportsMediaRights.com, an online sports rights marketplace, and Iacto AB, an online marketplace for broadcast services, have agreed to a strategic partnership to offer both services to their clients.

SportsMediaRights.com, the online sports rights marketplace powered by sport media specialists Media Content, has signed a strategic partnership deal with Iacto.

Greece has pledged to deliver key venues for the 2004 Olympics on time despite construction delays that have worried the IOC.

The vice-president of German soccer giants Bayern Munich, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, has described the UEFA Cup as a "mess" and called on the marketing of TV rights to be centralised.

The International Association of Athletics Federations has appointed Japanese advertising giant Dentsu to handle worldwide television and sponsorship sales for its World Athletics Series.

Soccerex 2001 has been postponed until next April following the terrorist attacks in the US.

FIFA, the soccer world's governing body, has appointed Zenith Media’s new sponsorship research division, Sponsorship Intelligence, to provide a wide ranging research programme for its international events.

Scottish soccer club, Glasgow Rangers has signed a deal with specialist sports licensing agency Giraffe to licence and distribute its merchandise overseas.

Global Sportnet, the Hamburg-based marketing and consulting company, has secured the worldwide television and advertising rights to all UEFA Cup home matches of Milan-based soccer team FC Internazionale outside of two Italian territories.

The resumption of the NFL following the terrorist attacks in the US showed a significant drop in television ratings with fans clearly not ready to sit down and tune into the action so soon after the recent atrocities.

Sponsorship Partners has today been appointed as the official sales agent of SportBusiness Group for Northern Ireland and Eire.

Sponsorship research agency S:Comm Research is relaunching its corporate website.

Heather White has been appointed as the new head of sports sales at marketing and media company Sportsworld Media Group.

New viewing figures of soccer on TV have put further pressure on UK digital's ITV Sport Channel after it showed some games were attracting a mere 1,000 audience.

The European Commission is seeking further assurances on the proposed merger of RTL Group, Vivendi Universal and Group Jean-Claude Darmon (Darmon, pictured) after concerns the move will stifle competition.

Octagon Esedos, the Spanish agency of the sports marketing giant has appointed the son-in-law of King Juan Carlos I of Spain as its new business development manager.

CART CEO Joseph Heitzler has told sportbusiness.com his organisation is still ‘vigorously’ pursuing a massive multi-million dollar lawsuit against bankrupt marketing firm ISL – and is on the verge of recruiting a new vice-president to head its new internal marketing department.