Survey Blog Post

1. I am trying to understand how my fellow peers like different professional sports and what their views are on different sports topics and what their preferences are.

2. Yes they did because they gave us a background of who they are and what they generally think based on age and gender.

3. I would add more questions and more demographic questions to get a better understanding of the general thinking of different sports.

4. Yes there is a different between the boys and girls results. Boys knew more about the NBA finals and girls were not following it. Boys generally knew more about the sports.

5. Favorite league of sports question told us the most about the general thoughts on professional sports.

6. The results are generally diverse but there are certain questions that have very common results like most people wants the olympics to come to Boston with a rating of 8 or above on a scale of 10.

7. I liked how we actually used what we made and gave the surveys to real people. We got to use real information from our peers which was cool.

Scavenger Hunt Individual Blog

         I found that the easiest task was to find out information on the NCAA and the different divisions of sports. Information for this topic was easy to find and there was a lot of information per source. It made it easier to have a partner because we could divide the questions and i didn't have to do the whole thing by myself. Team work makes things a lot easier. I would not have rather done this alone. This is a fair assessment of chapter 3 because as we are searching for the answers to these questions, we are learning many components of this chapter. We are finding out new information and doing it in a different and fun way.

John Eldridge

3-11-15

D Block

Endorsements and Piracy

           

Many athletes and especially the more famous professional athletes make endorsement deals with companies so they can advertise using the company’s product and get paid for it. A famous athlete such as Michael Jordan had many endorsements and still does today. His endorsements are Coco Cola, Wheaties, Hanes, Nike, Ray-O-Vac Batteries and Gatorade. He still makes money today from some of these. An Athlete like David Ortiz also makes many endorsement deals including Vitaminwater, Dunkin Donuts, Samsung, Wheaties, Marucci, Big Papi hot sauce and Backyard Baseball. Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees also has many endorsement deals with Vita CoCo, Got Milk, Wheaties and Visa credit card. A-Rod’s endorsements have gone down since his steroid scandal. Peyton Manning has endorsements such as Wheaties, Reebok, Papa Johns, Gatorade, Buick and Sprint. Some of Mike Trout’s endorsements are Bodyarmor, Subway and MLB The Show. Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers has endorsements like Chrysler and New Balance. Jonathan Toews has endorsement deals with Bauer and Canadian Tire. Andrew Luck has a deal with just Bodyarmor because of his short time in the NFL.   

            

Piracy, the unauthorized selling and production of another’s work happens often in the world of big media companies and businesses. One example is limewire, the online free music site that distributed songs of all artists without authorization from those artists. Another piracy example is a website called megashare. This website requires a free membership and provides all kinds of movies in great numbers without authorization from movie companies to show them to the public. People can also illegally download music to their phones from Youtube. People can also do this on websites like mp3 Raid and Songs.PK and also Music Addict. Piracy happens a lot and people often get in trouble for downloading off of it and also making the websites.

My Introduction

This is my new blog for my Sports and Entertainment Marketing Class. I am interested in this class for the new semester and I hope I will enjoy it. This blog seems cool.