Navigating uncertain waters

This guide offers insights into everything from sponsorship policies and how to manage sponsorship requests: from the selection process and refusals to the impacts of changing properties.

It would be almost frivolous to discuss sponsorship trends for 2021. If last year has taught us anything, it’s to live with a high level of uncertainty and to know that planning of any kind has been a fraught affair in the sport and entertainment industry. 

According to the NPD Group, “Basketball has fallen from its height of being an important streetwear product to really out of fashion right now,” as the performance segment has declined over multiple years and no sport-specific shoe category has shown any growth in more than three years.