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A TRADITION UNLIKE ANY OTHER ⛳️🏆
@themasters is one the most prestigious brands in all of sports - for a reason.
Every decision is carefully crafted, every detail FULLY thought through. This is a sports marketing case study for the ages.
They sacrifice profit for brand protection down there at Augusta National. The Masters is the most protected asset you’ll find.
#sportsmarketing #masters #brandstrategy
Transcript
Think your brand is buttoned up? Take one look at the better and you'll realize that nobody even comes close. Augusta National rank one main best, one week a year. Every single decision they make runs through one better, brand control over profit. Here's what that looks like in practice. I'm gonna fly through these pretty quick. No phones allowed on the course. TV deal is year to year. Only about six sponsors, four minutes of commercial per hour. Broadcasters are told what words they can use. Fans are patrons. The rough is the second cut. Concession wrappers are green no litter doesn't show up on camera. They dye the ponds for better TV reflection. You can only buy merch on-site. They do over 70 mil in one week. And then here's the crazy ones. They've really built an entire parallel economy for this one week. A $140,000,000 practice facility only open twelve days a year. The members can't even use it. Mercedes Benz ships over 600 cars down to Augusta to drive around the golfers, VIPs, the who's who. Over 1,500 private jets come through for this one week. So Better is building a 400,000 plus square foot terminal for this one week. All these facts came from different aggregations of