We are Brand Formula: An F1 Marketing Podcast. Mordecai and Elyssa are back for episode nine. It is so great to have a race weekend again, so much so Elyssa went to Miami. In this episode, we debrief the fan experience in Miami and talk solutions to the needed acquisition funnel for female fans.

What does it actually look like to experience an F1 race weekend in the host city when you don't have a race ticket? Elyssa spent the weekend at fan activations, brand events, and the McLaren thousandth race experience at Regatta Harbor. She also ended up at the Ritz-Carlton the morning of sprint qualifying watching all the B2B marketers head to the race.

The verdict on Miami? Quieter than expected. More B2B conference than fan festival. Salesforce showed up with a hundred clients. The empty seats during qualifying told a story all of their own. But Cadillac came with reggaeton, a low rider, a hair touch-up station, and a genuine understanding of where they were and who they were talking to. Someone over there gets it, and we think we know who.

We also get into Apple's big Miami moment. The pre-show, the post-race POV, IMAX screenings, Suzy Wolf's book launch at the Apple Store, and the dinner caption that briefly broke the internet. In and of F1 are not the same thing. Whose dinner was it really?

From there we go deep on the question this whole season keeps circling back to. Female fandom in F1 is at 50% and growing. So why does almost every retention tactic still feel like a photo booth and a nail station? We get into what an actual acquisition funnel for female fans looks like, what brands are missing by going for the glossy creator moment over the long-term relationship, and what F1 could learn from the Kentucky Derby, the London Marathon, and a CRM trigger.

We also share our first Brand Formula IRL news. Silverstone viewing party with The Sunday Society girls at Soho House is happening. UK-based listeners, come find us.

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Lights out.

#F1 #Marketing #SportsMarketing #MiamiGP #FemaleFandom #BrandPartnerships #Sponsorships #McLaren #Cadillac #AppleTV #FanExperience #SportsMarketing #BrandFormula

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We are Brand Formula: An F1 Marketing Podcast. Mordecai and Elyssa are back for episode eight and race weekends are back. Elyssa is packing sunscreen and a rain poncho and heading to Miami. Mordecai is 3,000 miles away and absolutely fine about it.

This episode we go wide. Really wide. We are talking about the brand formulas that makes a host country or city actually worth the investment, and what F1 does to a territory's economy, perception, and global standing when it shows up.

Turkey is back on the calendar and the story of how they got there tells you everything about how modern F1 host deals actually work and why Lewis Hamilton racing in Africa before he retires is not just a dream, it is an obligation.

Then America. Sixty years. Ten venues. One race held in a car park at Caesar's Palace. It took Drive to Survive, a Taylor Swift headline set, and a lot of capitalism to finally crack it. Now there are three US races, an Apple TV deal, and an 800 million dollar Brad Pitt film. We break down how the US went from F1's biggest miss to its most lucrative market, and why the secret formula there is less fandom and more B2B. The paddock club is not a fan experience. It is a sales meeting with better canapés.

Elyssa reports en route to Miami on what brands are actually doing on the ground, from a $3,000 Amex supper club to a free McLaren x Sega fan weekend to a full yacht club built inside the track. Plus Sephora in the Paddock Club. We have thoughts.

We close on Europe. Monza, Silverstone, Monaco, and the question of whether Madrid can deliver the three to four X economic multiplier they are promising when the new street circuit debuts.

Like, subscribe, and find us at @brandformulapod everywhere. And if you are in Miami this weekend and can get Elyssa a ticket, you know where to find her.

Lights out.

#F1 #Marketing #SportsMarketing #Miami #MiamiGP #BrandPartnerships #Sponsorships #HostCities #F1America #Monza #Silverstone #Madrid #FemaleFandom #Sephora #BrandFormula

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We are Brand Formula: An F1 Marketing Podcast. Mordecai and Elyssa are back for episode seven, and we open on the best possible note - Doriane Pin drove a Mercedes F1 car today (18th April). The first woman behind the wheel of an F1 car in three years. We'll take it. Susie Wolff's video message to Doriane before she got in? A masterclass in mentorship. Go watch it immediately.

This week we go into the then & next of F1 sponsors, and the integral role they have in the lore of F1. We're taking you through the arc of cigs & cars F1 sponsorship history to energy drinks to AI, and asking what it tells us about where the sport is going next.

We start at the beginning with Gold Leaf Tobacco and the moment F1 opened the paddock to sponsors, and trace the Marlboro-Ferrari partnership that lasted five decades, even surviving the tobacco ban through a shell company called Mission Winnow ($0 brand equity, you could not make it up). We break down what Marlboro actually did right using the five P's of brand strategy, why that vintage merch is now selling for thousands on resale sites, and what genuine brand legacy looks like versus buying your way onto a car.

We talk Benetton - the original world builders of F1. A fashion brand that bought their own team, made their drivers extensions of their brand identity, and had a six-year-old Elyssa begging her mom for the merch.

And we talk Rich Energy, the brand that was a bust. $770 in the bank. $35 million owed to Haas. A copyright infringement case mid-season. A CEO who ended a multi-year title sponsorship on Twitter. If you are a marketer who has never heard this story, go watch Drive to Survive seasons one and two immediately after listening to this episode.

We close on the white space, the brands that should be on the F1 grid and aren't yet. Female brands we’re talking about you, make the move...

Off pod, we can’t wait for this break to end, and we're heading into Miami soon. If you want to host us trackside or panel side we’re at Possible, the Miami Grand Prix, Cannes Lions, and Silverstone. Reach us at brandformulapod@gmail.com.

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Lights out.

#F1 #Marketing #SportsMarketing #BrandStrategy #Sponsorships #BrandPartnerships #Marlboro #Benetton #RichEnergy #Haas #F1Academy #DorianPin #FemaleFandom #BrandFormula

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