The Pool Magazines, Associations, and Advertising Dollars

[PoolSleuth]

I keep looking for Ads/Sponsorship in the Pool Magazines/Association, from what I call “BIG MONEY ADVERTISERS”, like Car & Truck Manufacturing Companies, Beer, Wine, and the Alcohol Industry, and the Tobacco Industry. but am constantly surprise the Pool has not been able to bring these Potential Advertisers Dollar into their stable so to say.

As “MOST” Pool Player drive a Vehicle be it Car or Truck, consume Adult Beverages (Alcohol) , and or Smoke or use Tobacco Products.

Wonder why there potental advertiser are avoiding Pool?

 

[pete lafond]

I keep looking for Ads/Sponsorship in the Pool Magazines/Association, from what I call “BIG MONEY ADVERTISERS”, like Car & Truck Manufacturing Companies, Beer, Wine, and the Alcohol Industry, and the Tobacco Industry. but am constantly surprise the Pool has not been able to bring these Potential Advertisers Dollar into their stable so to say.

As “MOST” Pool Player drive a Vehicle be it Car or Truck, consume Adult Beverages (Alcohol) , and or Smoke or use Tobacco Products.

Wonder why there potental advertiser are avoiding Pool?

My thoughts;

I'm not sure that they are avoiding pool as much as they realize that readership is very small. Unlike Cosmo, Time and other magazines that are read by millions, pool magazines run numbers in the 10's of thousands at best. Even the APA magazines that goes out to their 200,000+ (whatever the number is) are probably only read by 20%.

Maybe there is some third party advertising company that hits the niche market like ours with blanket advertising.

Here is another thought;

The other aspect of this is that pool products are not advertised in those high volume magazines because of tall advertising costs. Could you imagine though if people opened up Time, Sports Illustrated, .. and saw a big pool add with a player? I am sure that pool would pick up some new players fast and pool halls would become full.

My gripe has always been that there is no organization that is over billiards that the APA, BCA, Tours, ... all belong to and in turn promote the sport with $$$. As long as we allow lots of these self interest groups to act alone, nothing can happen. This is the really sad part.

 

[TheBook]

Didn't Busch beer promote the APA years ago or was this just a reference to the type of league it was?

 

[macguy]

I keep looking for Ads/Sponsorship in the Pool Magazines/Association, from what I call “BIG MONEY ADVERTISERS”, like Car & Truck Manufacturing Companies, Beer, Wine, and the Alcohol Industry, and the Tobacco Industry. but am constantly surprise the Pool has not been able to bring these Potential Advertisers Dollar into their stable so to say.

As “MOST” Pool Player drive a Vehicle be it Car or Truck, consume Adult Beverages (Alcohol) , and or Smoke or use Tobacco Products.

Wonder why there potental advertiser are avoiding Pool?

My guess is they have never tried. Remember this months BD has the cover with half of Sigels cue missing. Not really efficient operations.

 

[MacGyver]

rofl I just opened up the page and you are right... who the heck edited out the cue?!?

And is he suppose to be holding something in the other hand?

very odd photo!

 

[moccabee]

Here is the cover you are referring too.

 

[chefjeff]

rofl I just opened up the page and you are right... who the heck edited out the cue?!?

And is he suppose to be holding something in the other hand?

very odd photo!

The other hand is throwing the 8-ball up in the air.

His cue is up his sleeve apparently. I'm guessing that they were going to put another image where his cue was supposed to be and they left that out and forgot about the cue. Or maybe he painted his cue blue so he'd be camaflauged when playing on blue cloth and be able to hustle easier.

Putting out a rag every month has to be a big chore. BD rarely screws up.

Jeff Livingston

 

[MacGyver]

Most likely he was cut out in photoshop(from another background) in order to put the blue background in, and whoever photoshop'd it mistakenly took out the cue.

 

[ceebee]

Most likely he was cut out in photoshop(from another background) in order to put the blue background in, and whoever photoshop'd it mistakenly took out the cue.

Good post MacGyver... I believe that is the case, having done that before myself.