Recently, financial holding companies have been reported through various media channels for their sponsorships to art groups. For example, Taishin financial holding company contributed millions of dollars to support the performance The Phantom of the Opera in Taiwan in 2006. And Cathay Financial Holdings supported Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan with 14 outdoor performances within the past five years. Both examples show how these companies emphasize on subsidizing art and culture activities. However, why these companies decide to sponsor, and how they choose suitable art and cultural activities? The main purposes of this study are: to discuss the current situation that the financial holding companies sponsorship for art activities and to provide art groups and sponsors suggestions with the acknowledgement of support through relationships. To achieve these goals, a thorough literature review and case interview was conducted. The researcher took examples of four financial holding companies which own Wen-hsin Awards, analyzed the motivation behind the sponsorship, the content of sponsorship package, and evaluated the outcomes of the sponsorship. Finally, the behavior model of financial holding companies to sponsor arts and culture activities is made. The results showed that the key factors to motivate sponsors¡¦ behavior are the company¡¦s social responsibility, benefit for business, and the proprietors¡¦ personal love for arts. It is also found that these four companies are interested in sponsoring the certain visual or performing art groups which hold exhibitions or large shows yearly; and mostly they do not pay much attention to evaluating their sponsorship outcomes.

Since 1989 the culture activities and the audiences have been gradually growing in Taiwan. The government expenditures in art activities increase with stable path during this period of time. Besides, the government subsidies from Council for Cultural Affairs and from National Culture and Art Foundation are considerable. Furthermore, Wen-Hsin Award, which encourages the corporate to support the art activities, has raised 3.6 billion NTD. Recently, companies are reported like a movie star via the media for sponsoring the art groups. For example, the Lin-Yuan Group and Chinatimes Corp. have supported Cloud Gate Dance Theatre for fourteen outdoor shows within 5 years and TSMC contributes 15 million NTD to Cloud Gate Dance Theatre to promote the dance performing art. The examples above show the art and culture be emphasized in public and private sectors. However, there are still many art groups applying for more money to improve the art activities and development. The main purpose in this study is to discuss the sponsorship of companies to art activities and provide the art groups and the sponsors with the acknowledgement of support relationship and with the way of support. To achieve the goal, researcher goes through literature review and case interview. By choosing five companies that won the Wen-hsin Award and examining their motivation, effects, and decision process, we discuss the influences and the interaction of the support. There are three characteristics of self-interest motivation support: 1. The companies with products that are banned for advertisement have more interest to sponsor and with diversified forms if they supported before. The requirement is that the proposal should point out how the contribution can increase the sale. Generally, the proposal should be filed within the expiry date. However, there could be no time limitation in some special cases . 2. The companies sponsor the art activities because of high-level managers¡¦ preferences. They support the activities only if the CEO, for example, regards the activities are meaningful and valuable. 3. In the decision process of corporate sponsorship, the consistency of sponsor purpose, the accumulation of sponsor knowledge, and the level of systemization are different. It causes that decision process belongs to different decision models. As far as we know, the most sponsors are still in the chaos stage. It reveals that corporate sponsorship of art or culture activities is still in the initial stage. Any successful sponsorship could be the model case in this area.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-132). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-132). Also available on the Internet.

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This thesis reports findings from a study that analyzed the sponsorship strategies, objectives, and benefits of the Canadian Hockey Association's women's ice hockey support program. There has been a notable increase in recent years in the number of women sport spectators and sport participants in ice hockey, which has increased the sport's potential for sponsorship. Women's ice hockey is Canada's fastest growing sport with approximately 40,000 females registered from coast to coast - an increase of over 400% in the last 10 years. (http://www. canadianhockey.ca). Although small in size compared to the men's program, (Women= 37,700, Men= 470,714) these numbers suggest that women's hockey is a good candidate for targeted sponsorship marketing approaches such as direct marketing and relationship marketing. Relationship and direct marketing are approaches to marketing and business communications that have emerged recently in the literature and can be used to enhance the benefits of sponsorship. Relationship marketing can be described as an integrated effort to identify, maintain, and build a network with individual customers and to continuously strengthen the network for the mutual benefit of all parties involved (McDonald and Milne, 1997). Direct marketing methods can be used to help identify, build and maintain relationships with customers and prospective customers using database technologies. According to Shani (1997), database marketing is a necessary tool to implement relationship marketing and involves the collection of information about past, current, and potential customers to build a customer database. The thesis study was designed to assess the marketing and sponsorship activities of thirteen major corporate partners involved in the women's program at the premier ($500,000+), broadcaster, or associate/program ($100,000+) levels. Eight corporate partners participated in the study. Interviews were conducted, in each case, in the offices of the respective corporations. Each interview was recorded and transcripts were prepared of the tape recordings. In addition to the audio recordings and transcripts, observations were made on-site and a wide range of sponsorship-related promotional materials were collected. The data were analyzed according to the corporate objectives, strategies and benefits obtained and the marketing & sponsorship methods that were utilized. Four major sponsorship objectives were found, ranging from traditional goals such as brand (and corporate) image & awareness and community involvement to more innovative objectives in sales and integrated promotions and advertising. Nine core corporate programs offered to the sponsors by the CHA are outlined in the thesis including: the Initiation Program; Skills Development Program; Experience a Dream; Fun Days; Medals of Achievement; Schools Program; PlayRight; the Coaching Certification, Development and Rewards Program; and Women in Coaching and Role Model Seminars. The research found a number of benefits of these core programs for the sponsors, including opportunities for relationship marketing, direct marketing, and niche marketing. Although for the most part CHA sponsors were very optimistic and supportive of the women's ice hockey program, there were a number of barriers and issues that concerned them. This research shows, however, that corporate partners for the most part were able to overcome these barriers and that they felt it was important to support the women's game of ice hockey in Canada.

While the volume of research on corporate event sponsorships as a marketing tool has increased markedly over the past decade, the results have done little to help marketers to justify sponsorship spending. Not only do marketers have little knowledge of a sponsored event’s financial return, they also struggle to demonstrate any impact on consumer behavior at all. Using multi-wave survey data, we quantified the financial impact of a sponsorship. We predicted the number of new buyers based upon changed brand attitudes, consistent with a hierarchy of effects model. We then established the financial return on the sponsorship spending by estimating the customer lifetime value (CLV) of these new buyers. We collected the data around a major college football bowl game. Six phases of data collection were used to determine purchasing behavior and brand attitudes of attendees before and after the sponsored event, in comparison to television viewers of the event and the general public. We applied Lavidge and Elrick’s (1961) attitudinal constructs as the independent variables in a logistic regression to predict future purchase. The final data collection was used to validate the model’s prediction. The findings show that the model accurately predicted the number of new customers after one buying cycle for the sponsor’s products. We also quantified the positive impact of the sponsorship on the CLV of existing customers within the same time frame. The managerial implications of this study are significant. Sponsorships are highly risky, with fixed outlays up front, and unclear benefits to be realized in the future. We provide a methodology that not only allows sponsors to measure the effectiveness of the sponsorship, but to determine the return on their sponsorship investment. We have taken consumer behavior theory from marketing communications research and combined it with CLV tools, thus allowing marketers to determine the number of new customers that a sponsorship generates, as well as how it influences the buying patterns that drive customer lifetime value.

Wherever we go, marketing is all around us. Sport events are no exception. Sport events have during the last years become a platform and a communication tool for marketing companies. The major reason for the increasing attraction of sport games is because of its’ enormously attraction of audience. A company that uses sport games in order to market itself is usually a sponsor for a sport association or team. A sponsoring company is provided with the opportunity to associate itself with a team and/or a game. Sponsoring and non-sponsoring companies utilize the amount of audience to reach as many customers as possible. The sponsoring companies need to pay a sponsorship fee. The non-sponsoring companies free ride at the expense of the sponsors, by not paying any fees. The ambushing companies aim, is to draw the consumers’ attention away from the sponsors and onto themselves. The purpose of this research is to study the consumers’ acceptance regarding marketing from non-sponsoring companies in sport games. It is interesting to study a consumer perspective of ambush marketing since the research field is not very explored. A qualitative study with quantitative elements has been used in order to capture the consumers’ opinions. The method used resulted in comprehensive findings. The results show distinct differences within the quantitative and the qualitative findings. The conclusion of this research is that consumers somehow accept the free riding strategy. Consumers believe that they do not lack knowledge regarding sponsoring companies. However, the consumers may lack knowledge concerning the harm ambush marketing causes the sponsoring companies.

Bakgrund: Podcasten är ett färskt tillskott till nuvarande marknadsföringsmedier och har påkort tid visat stor potential inom marknadsföringskommunikation. Den lågaproduktionskostnaden och enkelheten attraherar annonsörer som vill skapa riktad reklam tillsina kunder. De flesta marknadsförare är överens om att det bästa sättet att göra reklam i enpodcast är genom sponsring. Hur konsumenter uppfattar denna typ av reklam är dock oklartdå tidigare studier har adresserat mer traditionella medium. Syfte: Vi vill skapa en förståelse för hur konsumenter uppfattar sponsormeddelanden i enpodcast samt vilket presentationssätt de tycker är bäst. Genomförande: För att uppnå syftet med studien har en kvalitativ undersökning genomförts.Vi har valt att intervjua åtta personer i åldrarna 21-29 år som finns i våra bekantkretsar. Dehar alla lyssnat på en podcast vid mer än ett tillfälle och några är regelbundna lyssnare. Resultat: Vår undersökning visar blandade känslor angående attityd till reklam i podcasts. De två viktigaste komponenterna har visats vara sättet sponsormeddelandet presenteras påoch lyssnarens relation till talaren. Respondenterna är överens om att den typ av sponsringsom inte uppfattas som reklam och skiljer sig mest från traditionell reklam är bäst. De menarockså att deras intresse för talaren har stor påverkan på hur trovärdig och intressant reklamenär. Majoriteten av våra respondenter påpekar att de ogillar reklam, men att reklamen i podcastär att föredra framför reklam i andra medium. En intressant upptäckt med undersökningen äratt sponsormeddelanden som anses vara störande fastnar bäst på minnet. / Background: The podcast is a recent addition to existing marketing mediums and has showngreat potential in the area of marketing communications. Its low production cost andsimplicity attracts advertisers who wish to create targeted advertising for their customers.Most marketers agree that sponsoring is the best way to distribute advertising trough apodcast. How consumers perceive this kind of advertising is not well-known since formerstudies have focused more traditional mediums. Purpose: We wish to create an understanding of customer perception concerning advertisingin podcasts and what they believe is the best way to present a sponsor message. Implementation: To fulfil our purpose we have chosen to use a qualitative approach. We have decided to interview eight people aged 21-29 from our known circuits. They have alllisten to a podcast more than once and some are regular listeners. Result: Our survey shows mixed feelings concerning the attitude towards advertising inpodcasts. The two most important components have shown to be the way the message ispresented and the listeners´ relation to the speaker. The respondents agree that the kind ofsponsoring they prefer is the one they don’t perceive as advertising and differs most fromtraditional advertising. They also mean that their interest for the speaker has great effect onthe levels of credibility and interest of the advert. The majority of our respondents say theydon’t like advertising, but that the advertising in podcasts is preferable compared toadvertising in other mediums. An interesting discovery with our survey is the fact thatsponsor messages that are perceived as annoying are most memorable