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Infusing Digital and Physical Experiences w/ Drew Berst
Making the Fan
English - November 23, 2020 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsBusiness Sports customer experience sports business fan experience employee engagement corporate culture revenue generation consumer insights operations sportsbiz consulting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In today's episode, David and Kevin talk with Drew Berst about the combination of digital and physical experiences and how to infuse that in your customer experience. How will stadiums utilize their space going forward? With many stadiums transforming and restructuring their format, how can you maintain the culture and tradition while also keeping with the times and adapting to new experiences? With covid accelerating the demand and structure of sports, how can you balance this all?
Time Stamps:
2:55 - Who is Drew Berst?
3:43 - How Raiders are utilizing their 3D printed stadium torch
7:00 - Understanding what history tells us about short term and long term
8:10 - Covid's biggest fear; people are afraid of people
10:10 - When sports come back you need to offer a new experience
11:14 - Covid is accelerating certain demands in sports
12:51 - What are the positives and innovations of Covid?
13:50 - If sports become more premium, where does that leave the nosebleed fans?
15:53 - How State Farm Arena and the Atlanta Hawks balance the average and premium fans
18:47 - Experience is the center of attention at venues
20:40 - How to optimize the stadium and atmosphere at limited capacity
23:40 - How to approach older stadiums for restructuring and layout while keeping the culture and tradition
27:20 - What does the conversation with executives look like when redesigning traditional stadiums?
30:20 - The success of Dimensional Innovations
32:18 - The Masters and NBA Bubble infusing digital with physical experiences
34:06 - Digital experiences are here to stay
35:27 - How the NHL has approached their season
37:30 - The digitization of experiences from Dimensional Innovations
42:03 - Emotional connections are at the heart of the experience
43:00 - Digitization of consumer experiences
44:30 - How will clients return to communication? Who will stay digital?
45:24 - Future of sponsorships and fan experiences
49:28 - What data needs to be gathered and measured along with what you do with it is changing
50:59 - checking in employees at stadiums is still a hassle; Engagemint's solution to that: CheckdIn
54:08 - Where can you find more from Drew?
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
Dimensional Innovations
Dimensional Innovation's Project with The Raiders
The Master's allowing fans to order food favorites from Augusta National
The NBA Bubble Digital Fan Experience
CheckdIn by Engagemint
Where to Reach the Guest:
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @drewberst
LinkedIn - Drew Berst