Sports Marketing vs Traditional Marketing

With the invention of TiVo, iPods, and Sirius/XM radio, traditional marketing is missing the 18-35 male demographic.  Sport marketing reaches this demographic through sponsorship elements.

“...audiences are using TiVo, iPods, and other devises to tune out traditional broadcast advertising.  Some demographic segments are harder to reach than others.  “Men 18-24, it’s like someone vaporized them from the planet,” Drake said.  “They don’t read newspapers, they only listen to a few radio stations, they play their video games, they only care about sports...”

Bill Drake, President es/drake
TiVo Killed the Broadcast Ad
Lora Volkert
Idaho Business Review

DVR penetration increased by about 4% in the last year on an absolute basis (11% on a relative basis) rising from 35.7% of TV households with DVRs in February 2010 to 39.7% in February 2011 according to Nielsen data via Turner’s research department. The percentage of viewers reached in those DVR homes rose from 38.5% in February 2010 to 42.2% in 2011.

DVR Penetration Grows to 39.7% of Households, 42.2% of Viewers
Robert Seidman
TV By The Numbers - Zap2It.com

DVR's allow the consumer to record television shows and playback whenever they want.  An added benefit of the DVR is the ability to rewind and fast forward a recorded broadcast.  This provides the viewer the ability to fast forward through television commercials.  In a Nielsen survey, 69% of DVR users say they skip commercials during playback mode. 

Times have changed since the early years of television.  In 1965, you could reach 80% of the 18-49 demographic with just three (3) :60 second television commercials.  Today, with thousands of channels to choose from, the ability to record shows and bypass commercials, and new forms of media, such as the internet, acquiring the attention of this same demographic takes over 117 prime-time television commercials.

Traditional radio advertising is no longer as effective, with the inventions of Ipods and Satellite Radio.  Consumers now have the ability to listen to music, podcasts, and enterainment on their terms.

“The affluent consumers that we in media and marketing so desperately wish to reach now watch little TV, are abandoning newspaper in droves, and may be PVR subscribers to boot. Satellite radio may largely take them out of the radio reach equation as well. And it is growing faster than PVR vehicles such as TiVo!”

http://www.talentzoo.com/news/Satellite-Radio-Another-Threat-to-Advertising/513.html

Another benefit to Sport Marketing is the amount of exposure to a captive audience.  Where most advertisers shoot for the quick 15-30 second attention grab, an advertisement during a sporting event receives thousands of seconds of exposure.