“Over the last 24 months all you have heard is ‘the sky is falling’ when it comes to golf. Golf has lost nearly five million players over the past 10 years,” explained panelist Charlie Kautz. Though golf seems to be in a tough place right now, all of the panelist believe that there is a […]
Traug Keller, SVP Production, Business Divisions at ESPN said that 92% of audio listeners used FM/AM radio this past week but there has been rapid growth in digital audio channels, primarily podcast; 25% of the current audio audience for ESPN uses digital channels. The primary avenue for digital audio growth for ESPN, and other talk […]
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In recent memory, we are provided several cases of domestic violence and sexual assault that have dominated sports headlines, including Ray Rice and the incidents at Florida State. As a common sports fan, I have felt that there have been many more cases like this as of recent than there were five, even ten years […]
The panel Sport for Development: Affecting Societal Change will dive in to how organizations can combine the power of sports and its ability to engage a fan base with their corporate social responsibility efforts. This panel will consist of Dave Mingey, President and Founding Partner at GlideSlope, Joey Cheek, Olympic Athlete, Matt Geschke, Director at […]
Based on the most recent statistics of the National Golf Foundation, there were approximately 25.3 million golfers in the U.S. in 2012, which is a three percent decrease of the total number of golfers just two years prior. The panel Old Game, New Tricks: What’s the Future of Golf? will be conducted by a group […]
SXsports is one of the newest ventures for SXSW Interactive. It began in 2014 and has already become very popular, attracting many of the top entertainers, personalities and thinkers of the sports industry. As a sports fanatic, this is definitely the segment of SXSW Interactive that I am most looking forward to. There are so […]