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SC-MARKETINGFree course · Certificate on completion

Introduction to Sports Marketing

A free short course by Sportal Corporate — not a credit-bearing university award.

4h 1m of video7 videos12 written lessons

How sports properties find, grow and keep an audience — segmentation, brand equity, fan engagement and digital strategy. Free, with a certificate.

The course covers what makes sports marketing different from marketing anything else: you cannot control the product, and the audience is emotionally committed before you arrive. It works through marketing principles applied to sport, managing sports brands, audience segmentation, and two lessons on reinventing fan engagement — where the money and the attention are actually moving. A final lesson looks at marketing in esports.

It suits marketers moving into sport, club and federation staff who own an audience, and students who want the commercial side of a sports degree made concrete. Seven video lessons are released one at a time, each with notes, key terms and an exercise. Pass the ten-question quiz at 80% and your certificate is issued instantly with a verifiable ID.

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Free, self-paced, no payment. Work through the lessons, pass the quiz, and get a certificate you can verify by QR code.

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What you will learn

19 lessons · 4h 1m
  1. 1How this course works
  2. 2Video 1 — What sports marketing is15m
  3. 3Notes — What sports marketing is
  4. 4Video 2 — Marketing principles applied to sport43m
  5. 5Notes — Marketing principles applied to sport
  6. 6Video 3 — Managing sports brands22m
  7. 7Notes — Managing sports brands
  8. 8Video 4 — Audience segmentation46m
  9. 9Notes — Audience segmentation
  10. 10Video 5 — Reinventing fan engagement39m
  11. 11Notes — Reinventing fan engagement
  12. 12Video 6 — The future of fan engagement28m
  13. 13Notes — The future of fan engagement
  14. 14Video 7 — Marketing in esports48m
  15. 15Notes — Marketing in esports
  16. 16Key terms
  17. 17Key takeaways
  18. 18Exercise — Segment and plan
  19. 19Further viewing — optional

Lessons unlock one at a time. Finish them all, score 80% on the quiz, and your certificate is issued automatically.

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