The shit people do for a gold medal… I get that in their social circles, it’s everything. But. It doesn’t seem all that prestigious. It’s not like the judges are gonna go “Hm, poor performance this year, nobody gets anything”. There’s always gonna be a first second and third. Like, whats the most you get out of it? An advertising deal with Nike? You’re gonna fuck up your junk just so you can be in a YouTube ad that gets skipped at the first opportunity?
The key point is that those skippable ads are part of a larger sponsorship or brand deal, and that’s really the only way you can expect to make money in the more niche sports that don’t have a major league program backing them.
The shit people do for a gold medal… I get that in their social circles, it’s everything. But. It doesn’t seem all that prestigious. It’s not like the judges are gonna go “Hm, poor performance this year, nobody gets anything”. There’s always gonna be a first second and third. Like, whats the most you get out of it? An advertising deal with Nike? You’re gonna fuck up your junk just so you can be in a YouTube ad that gets skipped at the first opportunity?
The key point is that those skippable ads are part of a larger sponsorship or brand deal, and that’s really the only way you can expect to make money in the more niche sports that don’t have a major league program backing them.