Sponsorship Quotes

[Still,] the doubling over a decade of total spending by U.S. public and private research sponsors in real, inflation-adjusted terms should be reassuring to those who fear that financial sponsorship for research is not paralleling scientific opportunity... It is also reassuring that spending on health and biomedical science research by companies and government is not following reductions in research and development in other industries or reduced support for other areas of science. - Hamilton Moses

[IEG, a Chicago-based company that tracks sponsorship deals, first broke out action-sports sponsorships in 2004 when the category approached $100 million.] In our view of the world, that makes it a significant category unto itself... It's proven that it isn't a fad. - Jim Andrews

[Donna Orender, who took over as president of the WNBA this year from Val Ackerman, challenges Swoopes's observations, noting:] If anything, the league has more momentum than we've ever had. Our attendance is flat, but we've generated at least 10 new sponsorships in each of our markets and we're holding our own with regards to television. At the end of the day, we will have drawn more than two million fans. ... The key to growth is getting more games on television. - Richie Adubato

[And there are other options to the banner ad.] Forbes seems to be making money through sponsorship instead of banner ads -- they seem to be having success by thinking outside the box, literally in this case... The other whole area is making deals with the big portals where you buy exclusivity on certain amounts of pages. But it's very expensive. - Barry Parr

[And a strike could be devastating.] Continuity with the sponsorships is critical, ... The brand equity that the league has put together with its corporate partners, the overall international growth of the sport -- they're hitting on all cylinders, and to have anything take attention away from their growth is going to be very detrimental to them. - David Carter