SPONSORSHIP NEWS
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November 19, 2024
Angel City Signs NYX Makeup Brand as Sleeve Partner
Angel City FC and NYX Professional Makeup reached a multiyear deal to showcase the makeup brand on the sleeve of the home and away jerseys of the NWSL club starting with the 2025 season. NYX replaces women’s footwear company Birdies, which had been the sleeve partner since Angel City’s started play as an expansion...
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November 18, 2024
WNBA sponsorship deals are booming, but some players are getting left out. Here’s why
Many of the WNBA’s young stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese brought deals with them from their playing days in college, including name, image and likeness agreements that became endorsements with such companies as Nike, Reebok and Gatorade. Players of different backgrounds landed a variety of other endorsement deals...
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November 6, 2024
Three women’s sports nearing NCAA championship sponsorship threshold
Three sports in the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program — acrobatics and tumbling, triathlon and stunt — are trending toward NCAA championship consideration, based on the latest sports sponsorship data released in October. NCAA
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October 31, 2024
Deloitte is upping the ante on its women’s sports sponsorships
The consultancy has years-long relationships with leagues like the WNBA and the NWSL. Now, it’s encouraging other brands to compete in the space. Marketing Brew
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October 27, 2024
UCLA Olympic Gymnast Leading the Charge for Women’s Sports in NIL Earnings
The UCLA Bruins are becoming a big part of helping women break through when it comes to earning with Name, Image, and Likeness. Only 12 schools publicly disclose the NIL earnings and deals of their athletes. MSN
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October 25, 2024
Toyota Returns As Women’s Sports Summit Sponsor
Toyota is returning for its 12th year of sponsoring the espnW: Women + Sports Summit. Nike joins the summit as a first-time sponsor and will have a footprint in the Summit Welcome Suite where the brand will distribute apparel and footwear to attendees. The 15th annual event takes place Oct....
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October 21, 2024
As women’s hoops boom, NIL boosters favor men, records show
Shaylee Gonzales and her Texas women’s basketball teammates earned $435,000 in NIL income from July 2021 to July 2024, far less than their male counterparts, records show. (Aaron A. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman/USA Today Network). Washington Post
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October 19, 2024
Ancient DNA suggests our love for carbs goes back 800,000+ years
Our craving for bread, pasta, and potatoes may be more than just a cultural preference – it could be encoded in our DNA. Research reveals that our ability to digest starchy foods has much deeper roots than previously thought, potentially explaining why so many of us find carbohydrates irresistible. By...
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October 17, 2024
PWHL and LA Dodgers co-owner Mark Walter pledges $5.5 million to Women’s Sports Foundation
NEW YORK — Mark Walter, the PWHL and Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner, pledged $5.5 million to the $55 million capital campaign of the Women’s Sports Foundation on Wednesday night. Newsday
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October 17, 2024
How New Balance’s ‘athlete-first’ approach to women’s sports partnerships is paying off
With the WNBA finals between the New York Liberty and the Minnesota Lynx in full swing, all eyes are on a league that has exploded in popularity this year. This season of the WNBA has had more 100-point games than any season in the league’s 28-year history. Glossy
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October 9, 2024
JuJu Watkins Reportedly Signs a Multiyear Contract Extension With Nike
USC basketball star JuJu Watkins has reportedly signed a multiyear contract extension with Nike. Charania further reported that discussions with Nike to close the deal ended on Tuesday. Footwear News
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October 8, 2024
The Gist’s revenue strategy is about more than typical sports content sponsors
Sports newsletter and media company The Gist, which just announced that it crossed the 1 million newsletter subscriber mark, has worked with all of those brands—but it didn’t increase its ad revenue 20 fold in the past two years by targeting typical sports marketers alone, Jacie deHoop, co-founder and head...
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October 1, 2024
Stanford Athletics Launches First-of-Its-Kind Collaboration With Tampon Brand Sequel
In a Just Women's Sports exclusive release, women's health and wellness startup Sequel announced an agreement with Stanford Athletics to provide Stanford athletes with free Sequel Spiral Tampons through the 2024/25 academic year. This is the first time a college athletic program has entered an official collaboration with a tampon brand in NCAA history. JWS
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October 1, 2024
Zip Unveils New Ad Campaign with WNBA Superstar Kelsey Plum
Zip (ASX: ZIP), a digital financial services company offering innovative, people-centered products, today announced a new advertising campaign featuring two-time WNBA champion, Olympian, and superstar Kelsey Plum. The "Pay How You Want" campaign showcases Zip's payment options that let customers manage their spending without relying on traditional credit solutions and make...
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September 26, 2024
Lululemon ends partnership with ultrarunner Camille Herron
Canadian athleisure brand Lululemon has ended its partnership with American ultrarunner Camille Herron after she and her husband, Conor Holt, were implicated in a Wikipedia editing scandal. On Monday, we reported on the couple’s history of making pro-Herron edits to her Wikipedia page while editing the pages of other ultrarunners (including Courtney Dauwalter and Kilian Jornet) to remove or...
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September 24, 2024
Aspen Sponsors Women’s Match Racing Regatta
The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and World Match Racing Tour today announced re-insurer Aspen as title sponsor of the new Aspen Bermuda Women’s Match Racing Regatta to take place alongside the 71st Bermuda Gold Cup from 29 October to 3 November in Hamilton Harbour. A spokesperson said, “It is the...
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September 4, 2024
WNBA Expansion Team Valkyries Sign Chase as First Jersey Sponsor
The Golden State Valkyries and JPMorgan Chase have signed a multi-year sponsorship that will make the banking giant’s Chase Freedom brand the first founding partner of the WNBA expansion team, which starts play in 2025. Chase Freedom’s logo will be on the club’s home and away jerseys. The team calls Chase their jersey “shield”...
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September 4, 2024
Gender Equity at Heart of New California NIL Law
The NCAA isn’t the only entity trying to force the terms of name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals to become public. Last week, the California state legislature passed an amendment to its existing NIL law requiring any deals worth $5,000 or more to be reported to their schools, who will...
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September 3, 2024
Downy and Venus Williams Pair Up to Smash Tough Odor Out of Laundry
Downy®, the #1 most trusted fabric rinse for odor removal**, announced today that it is teaming up with tennis champion and entrepreneur Venus Williams to showcase how its breakthrough laundry odor remover, Rinse & Refresh, helps rinse away the most stubborn odor and residue trapped within the funkiest fabrics that take...
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August 30, 2024
Barbie rolls out new brand campaign at WNBA game
For one night, the WNBA is living in a Barbie world. At Friday night’s matchup between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever, the Barbie brand debuted its latest campaign and slogan, “Give Limitless Possibilities.” The campaign centers around a short film introduced at the game, which shows children playing with...
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August 21, 2024
ELF Named Exclusive Skin and Cosmetic Partner of Billie Jean King Cup
ELF—No. 20 in Happi’s 2024 Top 50— is joining forces with the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge (BJKC), billed the women’s world cup of tennis, in a new multi-year global partnership. The fast-growing beauty company has been named the exclusive skin and cosmetic partner of the event, which is...
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August 19, 2024
Maybelline becomes New York City Marathon’s first cosmetics partner
Maybelline has been appointed the first-ever cosmetics partner of the TCS New York City Marathon. The L’Oréal-owned make-up brand will participate in the US-based race on 3 November, which is produced by non-profit New York Road Runners (NYRR). Branded activations include a Maybelline New York ‘cheer zone’ along the race course and a...
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August 12, 2024
Unrivaled, the new women’s basketball league, wants brands in its court
Unrivaled is getting an alley-oop from Ally Financial, which will be the first (and founding) brand partner for the new women’s basketball league that tips off in January 2025. The league is currently seeking to drum up brand and viewer interest at a time when women’s sports are bigger than...
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July 30, 2024
USA Rugby announces transformative gift from Kynisca’s Michele Kang
The USA Rugby today announced an unprecedented donation from Michele Kang, owner of the Washington Spirit, Olympique Lyonnais Féminin and London City Lionesses women’s soccer clubs. Kang, who is dedicated to the advancement of women’s sports through Kynisca Sports International, the first global, female-owned, multi-club organization in women’s football, will gift...
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July 30, 2024
“My Financial Situation Isn’t Great.” 5 Olympians On The Real Cost Of Competition
Ever wonder how much it costs to join the Olympics? Chime in on 5 athletes to see if you can afford to be an Olympian. Refinery29
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