IQ News: Yahoo Shoots To Score With Sports Marketing

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Yahoo has hired a San Francisco-based sports marketing firm, MGO Marketing, to improve its chances of landing sponsorship deals with professional sports leagues.
Over the next six months, MGO will be charged with getting the popular search service better access to officials from sports leagues. Yahoo executives are particularly interested in the possibility of striking deals with Major League Soccer and the National Hockey League.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based Yahoo, the leader among the search services, admits it’s just beginning to explore big-ticket sports marketing pacts.




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