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    Valuing A Sponsorship Was Never Supposed To Be Easy
    Conducting research for a variety of sports properties and brands that activate around them affords me the opportunity to look at sponsorships with a fresh and unique approach, every time a client or agency calls us in. Yet it confounds me that for such a large and potentially high profile endeavor as investing in a sponsorship or sports marketing program, few still go beyond a fairly standardized approach of assessing potential exposure levels, translating these into GRP or CPM equivalents and, voila...out comes an empirical valuation. I get and subscribe to the K.I.S.S. principle but, time-out, there's so much more …
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