Why Doesn’t WPA, Matchroom or BCA Get On The Phones?

Black-Balled said:
Never forget your audience.
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Our players are worldwide.
There’s a reason that Emily is always on the players to post to their social feeds.
People want something to look at.

I believe it was Albin Ouschan who was gifted a German made car & filmed it.
That car manufacturer is a potential sponsor.

England will soon have 2 MBE’s from the ladies
Kelly & Allison are national treasures who only need a bit of promotion.

The KO brothers are unique and have appeal & are constantly posting to their feeds, creating a strong China/Taiwan/Indonesia market.

Cue sports are amazing and we have lots of marketing appeal and angles to play.
Black-Balled said:
We are biased when it comes to perception and marketing of pool.
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Have you ever watched Supercar Blondie?

Hot, educated woman brings her camera crew along as she describes & checks out expensive, high end cars.

It’s in the doing that pool can & will grow.
Black-Balled said:
What do you all think about volleyball?
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Before or after the uniform changes?
 
why watches? makes no sense for a pool player to wear one except for getting to the match table in time, which he/she can use the phone clock for anyway
 
MitchAlsup said:
Who even wears a watch these days ??
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A lot of people, including a lot of players. Shane, Shaw, and others all had watches on at Mosconni. Pretty sure Shaw was wearing a DateJust. Been seeing more players wearing Rolex lately it seems like, seems to be a small trend in the pro ranks.

As a big watch fan myself, I’d love to see it, but doubt it would happen. Not sure pool is big enough or prestigious enough for any major watch brand to want to be associated with it.

Watches are a huge business these days, the resurgence in the mechanical watch industry has been pretty massive in the last 20 years.
 
sjm said:
Nice to dream of, but pool has consistently failed to reach the demographic preferred by marketing concerns. When pool was on ESPN in the 1990s, while the viewership numbers were passable, the stats showed that it was higher-age, lower income people watching, not the prized higher income 18-49 years old people that marketers are trying hardest to reach.

When pool shows itself capable of attracting the right demographic groups in the right numbers, the marketers will follow. Tennis and golf have accomplished this, but pool has a long way to go in shedding the seedy image it still carries, and which the behavior of a few seems to reinforce more than occasionally.

To be fair, the presumption that the powerbrokers in pool haven't made attempts to attract out-of-industry sponsorship does not hold up to scrutiny. They just haven't pulled it off yet, with rarest of exception.

A positive is that the bookmakers who, as a group, have very deep pockets, are getting on board as sponsors of pool at the Mosconi Cup. If pool were to become a significant betting concern, that sponsorship would surely grow, and Matchroom understands in full that this would make pro pool much more popular and visible.
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My feeling is that the age restrictions in many pool rooms is probably mostly to blame. We need to increase the proportion of 8-17 year old players to drive higher numbers of 18-49 year olds in the future.
 
Cameron Smith said:
My feeling is that the age restrictions in many pool rooms is probably mostly to blame. We need to increase the proportion of 8-17 year old players to drive higher numbers of 18-49 year olds in the future.
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Until there are more pool tables and halls accessible to kids, that’s not going to happen. Or some government funded program for competitive kids billiards.
 
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chenjy9 said:
Until there are more pool balls and balls accessible to kids, that’s not going to happen. Or some government funded program for competitive kids billiards.
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I am curious to see if any more American tables or halls pop-up in the UK... Especially given that MR is driving the 9ball wagon...
Spent a lot of time this last couple of weeks hassling a friend who runs a local snooker room (2 tables - private) to get an American table... was having none of it :cry:
I think Cameron is certainly on the right lines... Grass roots opportunities... for kids (especially female) is key to growing the sport outside of the context of bar room play... otherwise it's just children of avid fans who make up the next-gen of players. Something needs to happen to encourage the average human to extend play beyond the odd bash at a bar. To get a bigger pool of 'up and comers'
I would also say, crossover in the cuesport world can add impetus to growth. Encouraging cuesport fans who would otherwise not be interested in particular disciplines to compete - one of the few reasons I began playing American tabled games myself.
 
skogstokig said:
why watches? makes no sense for a pool player to wear one except for getting to the match table in time, which he/she can use the phone clock for anyway
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I think OP knows that.. but the fact the wrist gets a lot of airtime on a pool table would mean a lot of advertising time :)

All you need is to initial it with some fancy abbreviation and a dial or gimmicky that does nothing... some idiot will buy it.
 
Forget those cheap, disposable Rolexes and Omegas. Get Richard Mille and his $357K model 055 on board:


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I am serious about this: chastity bracelets

There are several people that need to see signs that chastity is happening.

How would the pool community feel?

Having public junior players has an image and protecting them is important.
 
Same here Mitch, haven't worn a watch in over 25 years and I used to work a job where I was on an assignment multiple times daily and never was late, you somehow just learn time when you have to. To be honest though, I'm old now and realize the new younger gen has different ideas of needs than I grew up with. Each their own I guess.
 
Maybe I am old, but I actually do wear watches still. I got my daily wear, a Seiko SARB33 with a black leather strap, and then my fancy occasion watch, a Grand Seiko Snowflake. There is just something about how all these tiny gears work together to keep time that fascinates me. That said, unless it's Swatch or Casio, I feel this wouldn't be a great idea. The majority of pool players make very little money off the profession. Those people rocking real Rolexes are like the upper 1% and the overall audience doesn't have the disposable income to consider nice watches IMO.

If MR can keep bringing in more money, I feel like the next step is to work with sponsors to start up pool academies and lower the entry for youth to pool.
 
How about charity bracelet?

I support libraries, Afterschool programs, Food banks and veteran services. Domestic violence awareness in multilingual settings.

Let players get stats on fundraising first. Then make the sales pitch.
 
i cannot play pool with a wristwatch

but i see a lot of people that do

to me it’s a physical distraction
and mentally i feel it is “anti-zone,”
i try to focus on the game at hand
and that has nothing to do with what time it is

a short game can feel like it took forever
and a long game can feel like it ended
in a hurry

i don’t think the real time information
about this is helpful
 
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markjames said:
i cannot play pool with a wristwatch

but i see a lot of people that do

to me it’s a physical distraction
and mentally i feel it is “anti-zone,”
i try to focus on the game at hand
and that has nothing to do with what time it is

a short game can feel like it took forever
and a long game can feel like it ended
in a hurry

i don’t think the real time information
about this is helpful
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But if someone was partially blind and the watch was emitting pulses to help echo locate objects then I support wrist watches.

Technology that has not been invented is already being blacklisted, that is a problem.
 
That darts kid who is all over the world news (for making it to the final in the Matchroom world championship) wears a nice watch. Matchroom nailed the publicity on him and the event and hopefully will eventually do the same for pool.
 
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