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Mercedes-Benz moved within days of Kimi Antonelli's F1 title to launch 'Better keeps us going', fusing the youngest-ever champion with its new model line. A lesson in sponsorship speed.

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney turned a non-league club into a worldwide brand with a documentary and relentless storytelling. It's the clearest challenger-brand case study in sport.

A decade ago F1 was ageing and shrinking. Then came Netflix, a new generation of fans and a US boom. The sport's audience turnaround is the clearest growth story in marketing.

Boxing in Riyadh, LIV Golf, the Saudi Pro League and a 2034 World Cup — Saudi Arabia is spending its way to the centre of global sport. It's the largest nation-branding campaign in the world, and brands partnering with it face a reach-versus-reputation calculation.

A new IPA report finds only 45% of brands are confident sponsorship drives business results, but those applying three fundamentals are around six times more likely to believe it works.

An American icon and a German giant joined the F1 grid in 2026. Neither is doing it just to race. For legacy car brands chasing relevance, Formula 1 has become the ultimate reinvention stage.

Ferrero will run two Super Bowl LXI ads for Nutella as part of a $50m sports-marketing push in 2027.

Sephora, Charlotte Tilbury, Gatorade and American Express are pouring into F1 Academy, the all-female racing series. It's a sharp lesson in following the audience — and in how brand money is funding the rise of women's motorsport.

Big brands commit to leagues for a decade. Small businesses can borrow the same logic at a fraction of the cost - here's how to make sports sponsorship work on a modest budget.

Coca-Cola's Powerade flipped Novig's provocative 'Just Sports' line into a statement about backing female athletes. A lesson in earning the right to respond.

VW extended its U.S. Soccer presenting partnership to 2032 and is pouring energy into NBC's centennial. The strategy: emotional connection over one-off blitzes.

Zinedine Zidane has launched a signature padel racket line with Adidas, putting one of football's most bankable names behind the sport's fastest-growing racket category.

UEFA has appointed US agency Relevent as the exclusive marketing and sales partner for its national-team competitions from 2028, its second major rights deal with the RedBird-backed firm.

What a Super Bowl ad really costs, and who actually gets their money’s worth.

ASICS built a natural-history-style diorama in Paris of a fictional species, 'Homo Scrollus Canapus', to satirise sedentary screen culture.

Sprite has returned as the NBA's official global soft drink with 'Never Stop Refreshing the Game', a worldwide campaign fronted by Nikola Jokić and Anthony Edwards.

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) is creating new structures for esports and gaming ahead of the first Olympic Esports Games in 2027, in a bid to reach a generation that lives online.

The WNBA keeps shattering viewership and attendance records, led by Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever. Here's how a single marketable star turned a league into one of the fastest-growing properties in US sport — and what brands should take from it.

Strauss, the Hesse-based workwear brand, is entering Australia and has been named the AFL and AFLW's first official workwear partner ahead of a 2027 launch.

Canal+ is rolling out a free, advertising-funded sports offer, opening premium-adjacent sports content to a mass audience and a new pool of advertisers.