Establishment Of Japanese Football League

Based on author, David Halberstam’s quote that “ Sport is a window on a changing society”, I have learned that high in rank companies, and leagues make many of their decisions based on money and how it can help and hurt their company. Sports are a great example of this thinking because of how public it is and many of the business decisions they make can be viewed by anyone. The American society is changing a lot and it can be seen greatly through

The National Football League has an mixed market strategy because the NFL wants to attract the most fans and viewers to watch our sporting events from all geographic, sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics but each are targeted in different ways. The members for each market are homogeneous with respect to geographic since a member of a market can watch his or her favorite team anywhere online or television broadcast. There are numerous teams that are located across the United States so members of the target group can attend games anywhere. As for the sociodemographic aspect, the market is heterogeneous since the National Football League mass markets to all ages, ethnic backgrounds, gender, and lifecycles. The NFL does not target just one market alone, but run a campaign to attract more members to that sociodemographic based on reports gathered. The behavioral characteristics of the members of each of the markets are collected and analyzed to best create a market strategy at the time. The NFL as of now is geographically dominated by the United States meaning most of their viewers are from the United States. However, the NFL is looking to begin targeting all around the world. The NFL already has three games a year being played in London and in the upcoming years the NFL will look to play games in Mexico and China. As of now, the NFL only trails the National Basketball Association (NBA) and U.K soccer leagues when trying to attract fans outside of its’ home markets.

The Japanese American Citizens League, also known by the acronym JACL, is a Nisei organization founded in 1929 with the initial goal of lobbying for Japanese-American Civil Rights while promoting the integration of citizens into American culture. Since its inception the JACL has expanded its mandate to focus on lobbying for the Civil Rights of all Asian-American citizens and protecting Japanese-American cultural heritage. The JACL is considered one of the oldest and one of the most influential national organizations promoting social justice and equality throughout the country. The actions of the JACL have frequently been shaped by and frame in response to varying historical events as well as both public prejudice and political attitudes. As a result, the organization has, at times, been both critiqued by the Asian-American community for its support of racist government policies and praised for its opposition of legislative discrimination. In particular the organization has been criticized for its complacency during World War Two (1939-1945) with the federal government 's discriminatory internment of Japanese-American citizens.

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The report will discuss the affiliation between UEFA and marketing specialists Television Event and Media Marketing (TEAM). The writer will show that this association was fundamental to the emergence of the UCL and discuss the strategies developed by TEAM to ensure the competition was seen as a credible and visible brand.

One of the greatest obstacles that the NFL has had in introducing football globally is that many people outside of the United States and Canada find the rules complex and confusing. To help teach people more about football, the NFL designed an interactive website platform which teaches fans the fundamentals of American football (Hardcastle, 2012). The website seeks to directly address the queries, making it highly interactive. This website also serves as a foundation for advertising and promotional decisions; it can show executives which areas of the world are visiting the site, and showing interest in football which helps for deciding which venues to select for future NFL International games. The website also assists in identifying individuals with similar characteristics that have significant implications for the determination of marketing strategies; market segmentation (Market Segmentation, 2002-2010).

In 1929, the most widely recognized political organization for Japanese Americans was founded: the Japanese American Citizens League. In just six years of its formation, there were already thirty-eight chapters established. The organization sought to unite Nisei, second-generation Japanese Americans (typically born inside the U.S.). They also aimed to bring about change for their community, resist racism and anti-Asian American sentiments, and promote citizenship. As a generation, Nisei believed their identities and issues were unique which is what led them to create their own organizations, such as JACL. They played an influential role throughout the Japanese-American communities, drawing support from them, and also inspiring independence

Being ahead of other competitors is another strategy that JD Sports enclose to become more successful. A business keeping ahead of the competition can evidently show customers that this particular business offers excellent products as well as providing outstanding service to reach customer needs. To keep ahead of competition JD Sports employ large amount of staffs due to the fact that all customers get the attention from the business and get the exact performance of

Marketing plans and strategies are an important part of almost any business today. One of the biggest industries marketing plans have benefited and changed in a number of different ways is the sports industry. The development of the sports marketing industry has led companies to invest millions of dollars to have their product associated with specific teams, players, and sporting events attempting to connect with consumer and create profit for both parties involved. The money involved in sports marketing calls for these sponsorships and endorsement decisions to be made both strategically and confidently. After researching the sports industry from a business perspective the importance of marketing decisions is

The Los Angels based American professional soccer team is one of the most popular sport clubs worldwide. The club mainly earns its income from sponsorship, TV and other media rights and commercials. According to the Forbes report, the company is the second in MLS in terms of annual revenue ($44 million) and in franchise value ($240 million). Considering soccer isn’t the most view and played sport in North America, LA Galaxy has done a great job on gaining large market shares in the professional sports industry. In addition to producing marketing and selling unique products (entertainment) to its fans, the club makes a significant profit from other sporting commodities and sporting goods such as jerseys, soccer shoes, and other accessories.

A third factor that shaped the Modern Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002 was global marketing. Countries started showing more and more economic interest. Document 5,7, and 9 show how countries in some odd way gained huge amounts of revenue for competing in the Olympics. This gave countries an incentive for hosting, sponsoring, and as well as obviously competing in the games. Document 5 expresses the results that the Tokyo games had on Japan’s economics. The

This article continues to explain that once a sports marketer creates a product and advertises it on a small scale, “Sports marketers get ahead by gradually representing bigger, more important and more prestigious sports teams, companies, associations, and athletes.” In other words, sports marketers need to have a plan of action to promote their product on a larger scale over time. Also, sports marketers spend much of their planning on the aspect of promotion. Mihai verifies that the category of promotion serves to prove that the product is desirable through advertising, sales, sponsorship and public relations. If a sports marketer follows these planning steps, his/her work will lead to a successful product with a large margin of profit.

Although, the case study of Manchester United gives us a good example of a brand’s ability to globalize, it does not give us a clear picture into how a league as a whole accomplishes these same goals. To get this clear picture of a successful global soccer league we can review a case study by Matthew Holt that examines the UEFA Champions League and its ability to succeed. The UEFA Champions League(UCL) was established after the UEFA European cup started to see more revenue increases based on the increase in television and digital technologies. (Holt, 2007) The goal of the UCL was to increase revenue through a newly structured European club soccer league. The first way that UCL accomplished this was through centralized marketing. This was accomplished through selling the television rights as the UCL brand rather than allowing the clubs to individually sell the rights to the games. This increased the value of the television rights and in turn increased the profitability of the clubs. (Holt, 2007) UEFA sold this UCL brand

Twenty years ago the United States started their first men’s soccer league. The Major League Soccer (MLS) started out in 1996 with 10 teams and has continued to grow the sport of soccer and the league currently has 20 teams. On the other hand, women’s soccer started a league after the U.S. women’s national team won the World Cup in 1996, but they failed to bring in revenue for the federation. The women are now on their third league and are starting to bring in the same sales as the men. Currently, when it comes to the national teams, the women are bringing in money for the federation while the men are losing the federation money, because they are not winning as many games as

Last October, Riot held the League of Legends Season 2 World Championships, a tournament that brought the world’s best teams together for a week of intense matches. $1 million went to the overall champion, while a total of $5 million was spread out over the course of Season 2. Apart from the unprecedented cash prizes, the League of Legends tournament was able to bring in over 8 million “unique viewers” online, viewership that is greater than the National Hockey League’s (Heaven and Robinson). In South Korea individual e-sports events for the popular real-time strategy game StarCraft 2 bring in over 100,000 live attendants to go alongside huge numbers of online spectators (Robinson). On top of this, competitive gaming’s popularity is continuing to grow through 2013. David Ting, founder of Imagine Game Network’s professional gaming league, states that online traffic for the company’s tournaments is “doubling every six months”(qtd. in Heaven). Who would’ve thought that playing video games would turn into such a loved spectator sport?