Author: Emanuele Venturoli
Emanuele Venturoli is Head of Communication & Marketing at RTR Sports Marketing, where he has led the agency's editorial, digital, and SEO output since 2012. He holds a degree in Public, Political and Institutional Communication from the University of Bologna and began his career in sport at Virtus Bologna basketball before moving into motorsport. He lectures in sports marketing at 24ORE Business School and writes across Formula 1, MotoGP, and sponsorship strategy, overseeing RTR's multilingual content platform across 13 languages.
March 30, 2022
Updating the product to stay ahead of the competition: Product Life Management and F1
In March 2022 Formula 1 had just launched a brand-new set of rules, with ground-effect cars designed to overtake more, and the first two races had delivered a great show and record ratings in[...]
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March 22, 2022
Athlete, Team, or Championship: How to Choose the Right Sponsorship
It’s 2024 and a marketing director at a mid-sized company — B2B technology, growing exports, expanding communications budget — finds three proposals on the table: a title sponsorshi[...]
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February 2, 2022
The effectiveness of sport sponsorship: here’s marketing best kept secret
Do you know what the most effective way to market your brand is? It’s not through expensive television advertising or social media campaigns. In fact, it’s through sport sponsorship ̵[...]
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January 22, 2022
Sports Marketing types: marketing of sport and marketing through sport
A key crossroads for sports marketing consists in the one marked by the different sports marketing types. This discipline is very often addressed without considering the dual meaning of it[...]
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January 4, 2022
Sports marketing in 2022, between protocols, the metaverse and transitions: the review four years on
In January 2022 the world was struggling out of its second pandemic winter, Omicron was filling the headlines and sport was trying to picture its future between health protocols, new markets [...]
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November 17, 2021
Thank you Vale. And for today, let’s not ask about tomorrow.
Valentino Rossi raced his last MotoGP race yesterday in Valencia. It is the end of an extraordinary career, but also of an incredible chapter in the history of this country and this sport. To[...]
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October 26, 2021
NBA and Formula 1: when sports marketing goes cross-audience (and what happened next)
Austin, October 2021. A half-court basketball set-up appears in the Circuit of the Americas paddock, the drivers go head to head at free throws, on the NBA’s social channels the league&[...]
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October 7, 2021
How Formula 1 works: everything you wanted to know but never dared to ask (2026)
There comes a moment in the life of every new Formula 1 fan when the question becomes unavoidable: why did that driver pit if he was leading? It is the moment when the fastest sport in the wo[...]
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October 7, 2021
The 10 most famous brands in MotoGP sponsorship (2026 edition)
2026 is the year MotoGP’s sponsorship map was redrawn. Repsol is no longer on the Honda fairing but gives its name to a Grand Prix, Monster Energy is moving its title sponsorship from Y[...]
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July 13, 2021
The Top 10 Most Famous Brands in Formula 1
Well-executed motorsport sponsorship can boost brands into global stardom. Not only a good sports marketing program in the pinnacle of two and four-wheel racing can provide a company with wor[...]
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July 6, 2021
How sports sponsorship helps a company grow: 7 reasons (2026)
When an ad break interrupts a film, we get up for a glass of water. When a logo flashes past on the fairing of a MotoGP bike during a last-lap duel, we stay glued to the screen. It is the sam[...]
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June 29, 2021
The sports sponsorship process explained by an agency: the 8 stages (2026)
Seen from the outside, a sports sponsorship looks like a decision taken on instinct: a passionate CEO, a handshake in the paddock, a logo on the fairing. Seen from the inside, it is a process[...]
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May 31, 2021
Motorsport Sponsorship: Emotional Impact and Memories
We are pleased to publish this article by Salvatore Valerioti, writer at Blog del Ring. “Give a child a sheet of paper, some crayons, and ask them to draw a car — they will certainly [...]
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May 14, 2021
MotoGP live 2026: where to watch on TV and streaming, country by country
In 2025 MotoGP’s TV audiences grew by an average of 9% per Grand Prix, and those of the Saturday Sprint by 26%. Behind these numbers lies a map of broadcasting deals that changes from c[...]
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May 4, 2021
Top 5 moments of MotoGP racing
They say special people make special plays on special days. So when the greatest riders of all time battle each other on the world’s most iconic tracks, legendary moments come to life, buil[...]
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April 2, 2021
Who are the top 10 drivers in Formula 1
Formula 1 is a very, very strange sport to debate competitiveness. With only 22 drivers to line on the grid, and with an immense amount of talent needed to simply make it to the sport, it is [...]
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February 3, 2021
8 mistakes to avoid in a MotoGP sponsorship (2026 guide)
On 31 December 2024 one of the longest-running and most successful sponsorships in MotoGP history came to an end. Repsol and Honda had raced together since 1995: thirty years, 183 wins, 15 ri[...]
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December 10, 2020
MotoGP: the teams, the riders, the sponsors
On the eve of this MotoGP 2020 season, we want to present on our blog a complete guide to the eleven teams who will take part in the Championship. It is not the first time that on these pages[...]
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November 2, 2020
MotoGP 2020 Calendar – with Updates
It will probably be an Iberian-centric world championship, with 8 out of 15 races held on Spanish soil, including the four circuits of Jerez, Barcelona, Valencia and Aragon [...]
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May 17, 2020
ML | Mirco Lazzari Magazine | Issue 3
If I said that everyone loved Nicky, those who didn’t know him would think, “That’s what everyone says when someone passes away. They suddenly become a hero. Their insignificant acts ar[...]
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