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This week marks my first conference in 2016. It’s the first in what is bound to be another year full of conferences, workshops, symposiums and the like. There are weeks I’ll be flying through multiple cities and countries to hit up the big ones. I admit, it can get exhausting.

As the industry gets into full-swing for 2016, ACA is concluding its series featuring experts predicting trends that will shape the year ahead. Concluding the series are Norm O’Reilly, senior advisor, T1 consulting group and Elisa Beselt, consultant, T1 consulting group, co-authors of the Canadian Sponsorship Landscape Study. Read other articles in the series by […]

With 2015 coming to a close, ACA is asking the experts to predict the trends they think will shape the industry in 2016. So far, Stephan Argent has written about Agency Search Management and Grant Le Riche looked at media. Next up is Brent Barootes, President and CEO, Partnership Group, with his forecast for sponsorships.

By Simon Cazelais, Partner and Vice-President, Account Services, Bleublancrouge The Olympic period is always very interesting for the sponsorship world. For brands that want to establish mobilizing messages on a global level, clearly associate a spokesperson with their companies and, most of all, derive tangible results from their alliances, the Olympics are a unique learning […]

By Doria Rahmani, Éditions infopresse The 4th RDV Commandite (in French), the annual sponsorship conference organized by Infopresse took place recently in Montreal. During the event, David Pontbriand, partner at Substance Stratégie, presented Focus on major issues, the results of an exclusive joint survey on current and emerging industry trends conducted among 21 sponsorship marketing experts

Labatt Breweries of Canada took Best of Show at the 9th annual Sponsorship Marketing Awards, winning for a fan-based sponsorship program involving Budweiser and the Winnipeg Jets that exceeded business objectives.