A great example of a promotion with a couple layers to it. The Pens involved the players, a fund-raising effort, a collection of care packages and the distribution of info on the concourses.

This month’s update is headlined by a outstanding tribute to broadcaster Bob Blackburn by Pat Walker. The rest of the month’s content seems inconsequential to his tribute, I will give it a cursory overview in this blog post.

This is the 30 year anniversary of the Miracle on Ice and teams are trotting out the team for promotions.

Read how Doritos has tapped into amateur free-lance video producers for this year’s Super Bowl Ads, and how you might use the same strategy for your game presentation.

A fun all-game promotion taking something as mundane as the selection of which hot dog to serve at their game into a full promotional opportunity, along with a sponsorship for a local accounting firm.

I just got word that the Racing Presidents of Washington Nationals fame will be returning to the New York Isanders for a special President’s Day edition of the Race….read more…

While running a sports entertainment and event production company, I’ve experienced a wide variety of game ops styles…but my latest is somewhat of a game ops dream.

I will say that I am not a fan of contests that are derivative of the Survivor bug eating contests. I think some find these amusing, but they have such a negative impact on the people who don’t share that perspective to be worthwhile editions to a good game presentation.

The Norfolk Admirals and Uncle Bob’s Self Storage are teaming up to find out who is the best uncle around in the Uncle of the Year contest. Submit an essay, win a prize, and boom…Bob’s your Uncle.

Last month I got an email from a friend with a link to this video by a group called Improv Everywhere. If you haven’t heard of them, they are a New York based improv group specializing in creating joyful chaos with live pranks in public places, as well as now being an internet sensation with all these assorted pranks posted on YouTube.

The Gameops.com store has a lot of large scale games like Build-a-Burger, Human Hamster Balls and more. In some cases we include safety gear, usually when it’s necessary to operate the game or when some of the gear is unique to a game. (Read more…)

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Because Gameops.com is our industry’s leader, providing the most trafficked website and the best way to reach the niche game operations and entertainment audience.

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Some of the content I really love on Gameops.com are the definition pages.  When I worked at Nike in the sports entertainment department I was throw into the deep water on some production elements I knew nothing about.  Pyro and lighting were just two such areas.

I was really lucky to have a local production house [...]

Here is one of the strangest ideas I have heard:

The Lowell Spinners of Minor League Baseball have two official mascots, Canaligator (male) and Allie-Gator (female). The team recently hosted a wedding ceremony for the two mascots.

Nearly 500 people came out to the ballpark for the event, which was a stand-alone activity as [...]