RTR Sports: your MotoGP Sponsorship Agency

Since 1995 we pride ourselves in being a specialized MotoGP sponsorship agency, providing consultancy to brands and companies wishing to use tier-one motorsport series as an efficient marketing tool and sales generator. Since the early days, our philosophy revolves around three main principles: we are vertical, we are independent, we are transparent. Being vertical means we only deal with the premier classes of motor racing: MotoGP, Formula 1, WEC, Formula E and World Superbikes. Being independent means that we can work with every tema, every organization, every rider and every circuit and can give you the best option for your business. Being transparent means that we have a very clear set of procedures and quality controls to make sure you always know what’s going on and what you can expect from every conversation.

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MotoGP sponsorship: Your brand at the heart of the action

Thrilling race fans since 1949, MotoGP grand prix motorcycle racing is still winning over fresh audiences 80 years later – maybe something to do with its expansion around the globe. MotoGP’s 19-round season visits 15 countries across five continents, showcasing the planet’s most dynamic motorcycle racers. The world’s top bike manufacturers, from Honda to Ducati, from Yamaha to KTM and Aprilia battle out for the crown of Premier Class Champion, in a clash of speed, technology, adrenaline, and energy.

MotoGP is the perfect platform to connect your brand with an expanding global audience, offering a range of exclusive sponsorship packages, all designed to give you maximum impact and return on investment.

MOTOGP RACING MEDIA COVERAGE

  • 200 countries and territories receive live or same-day programming
  • 369 households reached
  • 45,725 hours of MotoGP broadcasted in one year
  • 9,248 media representatives from 62 countries attended

MOTOGP: A GLOBAL, FRUITFUL MARKET

  • 2,5 million spectators on track, with over 100,000 at each event
  • 83% of the audience would tend to choose a brand because they associate it with MotoGP
  • 68% of the public have bought a product due to MotoGP sponsorship

Source: Dorna, Nielsen, CSM International

Our services

As an experienced MotoGP Sponsorship agency, we can help you with the following:

MotoGP Sponsorship Brokering.

Are you and your brand thinking about a MotoGP sponsorship package? We can help building the best program, selecting the best teams and riders on the grid. From the initial plan to a signed contract, we will provide consultancy all along.

MotoGP Sponsorship Activation.

Activation is not the icing on the cake. Rather, it’s where the actual value of the sponsorship package springs from and where a MotoGP agency can truly prove their usefulness. It may be taking the showbike for a spin in the city center, or having the riders compete with the fans at the simulator: this is where sky’s the limit and creativity knows no boundaries.

MotoGP Licensing.

RTR Sports Marketing is much more than just a MotoGP sponsorship agency. Since the early days, we strive to go past the traditional visibility and leverage on the sport’s potential to create value for our clients. Licensing is a powerful tool to convey MotoGP’s exceptional values and legacy and boost new life into your products.

MotoGP Hospitality Packages, MotoGP VIP Village and MotoGP Premier.

If you think there’s nothing like seeing the real thing, well you’re right. The thrill of motorsport when you are at the track is second to none: the screaming engines, the warping speed, the glamour of the world’s shiniest paddock. For MotoGP sponsors, this can become an offer you can’t pass up to engage with their top customers and secure new deals in an exciting environment. View our MotoGP Hospitality page to learn more. 

Why sponsor MotoGP?

MotoGP: a complete, efficient marketing tool

motorsport sponsorship package is a truly 360° marketing tool, offering passion, youth and innovation alongside countless activation opportunities and outstanding international media coverage. MotoGP followers are young and loyal (42% have been following the sport for the last two/five years, whilst an average spectator watches 15 out of 20 races per season), and are as engaged with MotoGP sponsors and brands as they are with riders.

Clearly, being a MotoGP World Championship sponsor means having an astonishing array of marketing opportunities that work together to generate impressive ROI. It also gives the opportunity for a fully-customized project, tailor-made around your brand’s marketing and commercial goals.

Ultimately, it’s all about storytelling – and MotoGP’s excellent production of imagery, video and content make it the perfect platform for those companies wishing to enlarge their online fanbase and their social media following. Combined, all this leads to one place: truly effective content marketing, with real long-term results.

  • 84% of fans view MotoGP as the pinnacle of motorsport and highlighting generally positive brand attributes.
  • 94% of fans say that the sport provides exciting racing.
  • 79% of the fans call MotoGP the world’s most exciting racing.
  • 71% say that it features pioneering technology.
  • MotoGP™’s most voted attributes are: Exciting, Competitive, Entertaining, World Class and Unpredictable.

An opportunity for every brand

Sponsorship is a crucial aspect of MotoGP and offers diverse opportunities for brands to collaborate with the sport. Sectors that are integral to the sport tend to yield the most profitable sponsorship agreements.

Logistics, for example, plays a pivotal role in organizing MotoGP races, making it one of the most significant sectors for sponsorship, as evident in DHL‘s role as the official sponsor of the championship. IT technology brands, such as Lenovo, have also capitalized on sponsorship opportunities by being the Title Sponsor of the Ducati Team, while cybersecurity brands, such as Kaspersky, sponsor the Aprilia Racing Team. It is equally important to acknowledge the brands that operate in the banking and payments sector, such as Mooney, who serve as the Title Sponsor of the newly formed VR46 Racing Team MotoGP, as well as those in the oil sector, such as Repsol, who have been the Title Sponsor of the Honda HRC Team for several years.

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The benefits of Sport Sponsorship

And why you should consider a specialized MotoGP Sponsorship Agency for your business

  • The facts are straight-up: countless sponsorship activation opportunities, huge scalability, sky-high ROI for brands, and efficiency for both B2C and B2B sponsors. This combination is one that generates a strong sales record – it’s no wonder most Fortune 500 companies have sports sponsorship programs in place. For specific examples, get in touch – we’re more than happy to discuss success stories.
  • The beauty of sports sponsorship is that it’s seen both by those present at the game AND those who are watching from elsewhere. Specialised TV channels, international media coverage, fan pages galore… all these aspects add up to create the perfect marketing and communication tool to get your brand in front of a global audience. With the support of a good motorsport sponsorship agency you can reap great results.
  • New Audiences.Sport is a global, unifying force – one that transcends borders and political conflict. This harmony and inclusion offers brands the chance to open themselves up to new markets and target audiences, almost without boundary or limit.
  • Sports sponsorship offers the opportunity to maximise all the communication tools at your disposal: exclusive content, imagery rights, storytelling strategy and live events, for example. The chance to meld all these aspects of your campaign together gives an unparallelled potential for reach and engagement amongst your potential customers.
  • Sports sponsorship deals can have on the ground benefits for your client and employee relationships too. Hospitality packages, for example MotoGP VIP packages, give the chance to reward those you’ve worked with, offer incredible incentive packages, and show off your sponsorship successes to important stakeholders. Think VIP tickets, hospitality boxes, and gourmet dining as standard. Why not use memorable moments like these to leverage and boost your business?
  • With the majority of Fortune 500 companies now waking up to the benefits of motorsport sponsorship opportunities, beginning your own campaign will put you in an exclusive club of brands and organisations that share a common passion and goal: the power of sports, and their value on the world stage. Connections amongst sponsors are common, and easy to set up. You’re all in it for the same reasons, after all, and your motorsport marketing agency will help you to get all the right introductions.

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Efficiency of Sport Sponsorship

And the decline of the traditional consumer

Unfortunately for marketing traditionalists, the old world of ADV is no longer reaping the rewards that it once did. Whilst consumers are still highly engaged, their behaviours have drastically changed. The key to this is understanding that the new customer is tech-savvy, well-informed – and very, very aware when they’re being sold to. A solution that can really help brands out in this scenario is sports sponsorship. Here are just a few of the reasons why.

  • Sports sponsorship leverages the emotion of a tournament, match or championship, aligning your brand with strong feelings of positivity in the viewer – something that’s entirely unique
  • It allows you to share in and convey the positive values of a sports team, or of the sport in general
  • Crucially, sports sponsorshipdoesn’t interrupt viewers whilst they are trying to watch an important match – instead, it seeps into their experience and becomes part of the action
  • It’s fast-growing, with +5% upward growth year-on-year (IEG) – creating a global sponsorship business worth more than $62.8 billion

MotoGP Data and figures

Welcome to a media powerhouse

Media production: 45,725 hours of content, 150 Media Professionals, 180 Live Cameras, 13 Broadcasters Signals, 1.118 hours of content per GP, 100 on board cameras across the three classes, 15 Terabytes of content per event.

Media Figures: more than 200 countries receiving live TV signal, 27,145 total broadcast hours, 433 Million homes reached via cable satellite, 55 countries represented by media personnel, 9.557 media representatives.

List of Broadcasters (non-exhaustive): Sky (Italy), BT Sport (UK), DAZN (Spain), Trans7 (Indonesia), FOX (Asia), Servus TV (Germany, Austria), Canal+ (France, Belgium), Eurosport (Benelux, Romania), Sport TV (Portugal), C8 (France), ESPN (Latin America), BeIN Sports (USA, Canada), Hulu (Japan), Sony ESPN (Indian Subcontinent), SporTV (Brazil), Nova Sport 1 (Czech Republic).

Website, Official MotoGP App and TV Apps: 17 Million users, 71 million sessions, 222 Million pageviews, 28 Million plays on videos, 9 million hours of content watched.

Social Media: 12,6 Billion impressions, 3,8 Billion video views,  42 Million global followers.

Total On-Track Attendance: 2.863.113

With these figures it is easy to understand why motorsport sponsorship is on the rise and how a partnerhsip with any MotoGP team can provide your company and brand with top-tier marketing opportunities and services.

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How To Generate Motorsport Sponsorship ROI

The importance of sponsorship activation in MotoGP and other major series

Sponsorship activation is without a shadow of doubt one of the main areas of any successful sponsorship program, and one that is too often overlooked. Sponsor brands sometimes forget that motorsport sponsorship opportunitiesper se, are nothing but a set of marketing and communication rights. Therefore, actively leveraging on those rights to extract the maximum value and how you turn those rights into actions is the name of the game.

Simply put, sponsorship activation is the set of strategies and actions a brand sponsor can create to leverage on the sponsorship rights and thus exploiting the maximum value out of the program and generating return on investments.

It’s easy to see how broad this whole concept is: from events to social media storytelling, from hospitality programs to the production of merchandise, any action made possible by the sponsorship contract is part of the sponsorship activation category. Brands like Red Bull, Coca-Cola, Repsol, Monster Energy, Nike or Petronas have become famous for their clever activations and use of sponsorship, often resulting in memorable moments of marketing and branding.

However, while activation is a pivotal aspect for any sports marketing strategy, and one that can potentially multiply the value generated by the sponsorship, it is not something properties are providing their sponsors with. Rather, each and every sponsor must implement their own set of actions based on their needs, skills, goals and budget. Activation spending, as a matter of fact, must be considered on top of the the sponsorship spending itself and has to be taken into account as a separate, but necessary, cost.

A MotoGP Sponsorship agency such as RTR Sports Marketing, thanks to their expertise in the field, is particularly effective and useful when it comes to sponsorship activation, as they already have a very clear idea of can and can’t be done and what steps are needed to get to a specific goal.

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Becoming a partner of the premier Class of motorcycle racing

Help your brand grow with MotoGP sponsorship

Being a MotoGP partner means entering a very exclusive environment. One where B2b conversations with other partners are easier and more productive and where engagement opportunities with your fans, customers and international clients are more exciting and frutiful.

MotoGP Sponsorship are flexible and tailor made around your needs, commercial goals and marketing objectives. Costs, as well as benefits, can range from highly-specific operations to international, world-class title partnerships.

With prices from $ 50,000 to $ 20 MillionMotoGP sponsorship can be the perfect tool for companies and businesses of all sizes and weight and allow for all kind of opportunities, wether it’s partnering with Dorna -the MotoGP rights holder- or with any Team on the Grid -factory official or satellite.

Agencies like RTR Sports Marketing can help you and your brand in this quest to the perfect MotoGP Sponsorship deal. Thanks to our network, expertise and knowledge, we can help you liaison with Teams and organizers, riders and managers and craft the perfect partnership, saving you time, money and effort.

So if you thing racing can be the next big thing to get your brand going, get in touch today via the button below.