Krishna Subramanian, Co-founder of Captiv8, explains the latest trends in influencer marketing and how name, image and likeness is creating endless opportunities for brands to work with collegiate athletes.
Aug 12
Build for Community, Not the Playbook
Don’t sell to your community. Just talk to them. DadGang founder Bart Szaniewski started with $750, 100 hats and no real business plan. Four years later, the brand has sold more than a million hats and generated over $36 million in revenue. He’s done it while ignoring a lot of co ... Show More
45m 4s
Jul 29
Spotlight: The 5,000-Year-Old Method of Making People Remember You
How do you get your brand into the 90% of memory that's subconscious? In this segment from Marketing Trends, neuroscientist Pranav Yadav reveals that the human brain is a pattern-seeking storytelling device — and the formula for creating lasting brand memory hasn't changed in 5,0 ... Show More
16m 9s
Jul 15
Marketing Has Forgotten What It’s For
Are you just busy working? Or are you adding value? Marketing has become overloaded with channels, platforms, metrics, and specialized roles. But Seth Matlins believes the job itself is much simpler: create value, drive sustainable growth, and help the business create and keep cu ... Show More
51m 14s
Mar 2022
How NCAA athletes are navigating the Wild West of "NIL" deals
In the first episode of Fast Company's new podcast Creative Control, host KC Ifeanyi dives into the tangled history of the NCAA and collegiate athletes being able to earn money from their name, image, and likeness. The new policy has been a long time coming for athletes in the NC ... Show More
22m 27s
Aug 2021
158 Jeremy Martin & Kevin Dwan - NIL & The Changing Face of College Athletics
<p class="p1">For years, student athletes competing at colleges and universities governed by the NCAA were considered to be "amateur athletes." That amateur status meant they were prohibited from making money using their name, image, and likeness. Well that changed recently thank ... Show More
24m 18s
Oct 2022
How students' right to earn shook up US sport
University sport in the US has become huge business. For decades, students' share of those earnings only came in the form of scholarships. As television contracts got bigger, so did the calls for change - and last year students were granted the right to earn off their name, image ... Show More
19m 17s
Jan 2025
235 Brian Mann - The Changing Landscape of College Athletics
Few businesses have experienced the amount and type of change college athletics has experienced recently. It started when NIL was introduced, which gives college athletes the rights to control and profit from their name, image, and likeness. Now, some of the very best college ath ... Show More
22m 6s
Mar 2022
551: Could Influencer Marketing Work for You?
No matter where you look on social media, content creators are using their platforms to serve their audiences with the clothing, skincare, gadgets, foods, and other goods they love. And brands are seeing the true power of an influencer with a strong voice and dedicated following. ... Show More
41m 18s