APEL is a sponsorship and media company whose core competency is helping blue chip properties maximize revenue. Fiercely committed to strategic integrity and executional excellence, Apel’s principals are recognized industry leaders with decades of relevant experience and highest level relationships. Clients include The United States Tennis Association, NY Mets, NY Jets, Citibikes, The NHL, NASCAR, Virgin Mobile and Yahoo!
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Spero Media has decades of successfully building audiences and brands, driving revenues and profits and maximizing the impact, efficiency and value of media/promotion/marketing planning. For nearly 40 years, Harry Spero has created, developed and nurtured advertising and marketing campaigns for some of the world’s biggest brand names. Clients include the US Open, WWE, SNY, many sports teams, college football bowl games, golf tournaments and entertainment properties.
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From ushering in the golden age of NBA Identity Systems in the 90s to leaving today’s stadium fans breathless with eye-popping state-of-the-art video board and LED ribbon board animations, GPC’s creative solutions have revolutionized design and are considered by many to be industry best practices.
Led by veteran sports branding executive, Tom O’Grady, GPC has extensive creative and technical skills in sports design, advertising, animation, brand identity, graphic design, marketing, and video production.
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Their name says it all,Vizion Group is all about vision: visibility, perception, marketability, timeliness and building for the future. Founder Steve Griffith has wide-ranging knowledge of the media spectrum, the right contacts and applies a craft to define and deliver the right pitch. He is the PR force behind The National Dog Show and has worked with some of the biggest entities in sports and entertainment including NBC Sports, all major golf tours, American Century, Diamond Resorts, Quint Events, ADT and the Sports Gambling Podcast Network (SGPN.)
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Weidinger Public Relations is an award-winning agency with a 30+ year history of success for clients in travel/tourism, hospitality, gaming and lodging, sports/recreation, real estate/development and nonprofits. Weidinger PR works with local, regional and national media in the areas of broadcast and linerar digital media and print. They’ve earned a reputation with media as the source for accurate, timely and difference-making information.
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For more than 20 years, Sports and Leisure Research Group has played a pivotal role providing marketing professionals with the most extensive customized research in the sports, travel and leisure markets.
With the skill, knowledge, and access to the latest data and information available, their expertise allows clients to take a creative and strategic approach to advertising research, product development, target market analysis and sales support research.