Searching for the Holy Grail of Sponsorship-Linked Marketing A Comprehensive, Generalizable Sponsorship Retention Model

Brand marketers routinely allocate a significant portion of their budget to sponsorship. Predicting whether those investment decisions will result in a successful, long-term partnership, however, remains a challenge. In an attempt to alleviate this issue, a dataset of more than 5,800 sponsorships has been compiled that investigates the influence of a variety of factors on the probability of sponsor retention. In addition to its contribution to the sponsorship-linked marketing literature, the model can be utilized by managers to predict the probability of a sponsor being retained and time the sponsor will remain with the property, representing a novel managerial contribution.