FIG. 01 Operating manual

The Virtue
method.

How we turn a sponsorship line item — or no sponsorship at all — into the most measurable pipeline week of your year. Three pillars, six phases, zero brand-lift studies.

FIG. 02 What we believe

Presence is
not pipeline.

The sponsorship industry sells presence: a logo on a board, a name on a tee, a hospitality suite for the lucky thirty. Presence is fine. Presence is not pipeline.

— A logo doesn't pay. A measurable conversion does.

We started Virtue because the audience inside a stadium is the most expensive, hardest-to-reach audience in the world — and almost nobody is buying it correctly. The cost of a banner ad is fixed; the cost of reaching the actual person who attended is what we negotiate down to a five-figure CPL, every week.

Geo-targeting is the floor. Content amplification is the ceiling. Attribution is the contract that holds the room accountable. If we can't prove it, we don't bill for it.

This page is the operating manual. Read it twice if you're going to outspend us.

FIG. 03 The market

A $52B market.
Almost none of it measurable.

The check-clearing part of sponsorship is easy. The part that ties back to your CRM is the part we built. Here's what's being spent — and the line item we help you isolate from the rest.

$52B
Sports sponsorship & in-venue advertisingGlobal market value · 2025
Global sports market$417B
2025 → $602B by 2030
NFL team sponsorship revenue$2.7B
2025
Women's elite sports revenue$3B+
Expected 2026 · 800M fans by 2030

Sources · Kearney · Deloitte · PwC · SponsorUnited · Nielsen · 2025–26

PILLAR 01 / 03

Content
amplification.

No other geo-targeting vendor does this. It's why our clients renew at 92%.

We send a creative crew on-site for the event week — pro-am, paddock, owner suite, locker tunnel. We get the footage that turns into culturally credible content, the kind sponsors pay seven figures for and almost always squander.

That content posts before Sunday's leaderboard closes. Targeted to the exact audience sitting in the gallery, the bar, and the boardroom. Native-feeling. Receipt-bearing.

It's the difference between a media buy and a marketing partner. It's also the difference between an ROAS of 2× and an ROAS of 6×.

SHOT LOG · NAPA OPEN · WEEK 47Live
PRO-AM · 0042
FAIRWAY · 0078
CLUBHOUSE · 0114
340Clips captured
12·2MTargeted reach
6.2×ROAS · vs paid
PILLAR 02 / 03

Geo-fencing.
surgical.

Polygons drawn by people who have stood at the venue — not a college kid with a sat-view tool.

We don't buy "sports interest" inventory from a programmatic vendor. We draw polygons. Around the venue, the parking lot, the airport private terminal, the nine hotels with the most ticket allocations, the bars in the catchment zone, the tailgate lot, the pro shop, the player parking.

Every polygon is layered with first-party signals — job title (LinkedIn), zip-code home (Meta), CRM-match (Google Customer Match) — so an impression is never wasted on a stadium food vendor or a tourist passing through.

The fence widens through the week. By Sunday we're running on a 4-mile radius of retargeting. The first fence is 240 feet wide. That's the player parking.

GEO-FENCE LAYERING · NAPA OPENFENCE 38 / 38
240FT · CORE2.4MI · TIER 24.0MI · RETARGET
METAGOOGLELINKEDINTIKTOKSNAPREDDITYOUTUBE
PILLAR 03 / 03

Attribution.
contractual.

Lead-by-lead, fence-by-fence, channel-by-channel. Real-time dashboards. Not brand-lift studies six months later.

Every impression carries a fence ID and a campaign ID. Every click drops a UTM with the same. Every CRM-bound conversion is matched back to the fence that earned the impression — and to the broadcast window it ran during.

Your CRM is the source of truth. We don't fight your data team — we feed it. Our daily ROAS reconciles to your pipeline-by-source dashboard before your sales standup.

If we say a fence won, we can show you the people it won, the route they took to find you, and the cost we paid to put them in your funnel.

ATTRIBUTION · WK 47 · NAPA OPENLive
FenceChannelLeadsROAS
Course · 240ftMETA147.8×
Carneros ResortLINKEDIN96.2×
STS Private Term.GOOGLE65.4×
Downtown NapaREDDIT54.9×
Vineyard Tour LoopTIKTOK33.6×
Total · WK 47ALL476.1×
FIG. 04 The engagement

Six phases.
measured in weeks.

/ 01Calibration
A 90-minute working session — your event calendar, your CRM, your top 3 ICP definitions on the wall. We model the next 12 months of pipeline against the events you'd realistically run on.Output · Event grid · Target CPL · ICP polygons
WK 0—WK 1
/ 02Fence build
We draw every polygon by hand. Course, parking lot, airport, hotel, restaurant cluster, retargeting ring. CRM seeds upload, LinkedIn job-title layers compile, Meta lookalikes spin up.Output · 30–80 fences · 4 audience layers per channel
WK 2—WK 4
/ 03Creative
Channel-native creative built per event. Pre-event warm-up + on-event activation + post-event retargeting. Our crew is briefed on the broadcast for the on-site capture window.Output · 12–24 cuts per channel · 3 phase variants
WK 3—WK 5
/ 04Event week
The seven days we built for. Crew on-site capturing content. Fences widening through the week. Daily ROAS reports at 7am. Optimization at 11am. New creative live by 3pm.Output · Daily attribution · Same-day creative ops
WK 6
/ 05Retargeting tail
The fence stays warm for the 90 days that follow. Anyone who entered the polygon during the event gets a tail of post-event creative — your hospitality recap, your owner-suite afterglow, your booking link.Output · 9 retargeting waves · Cross-channel sequenced
WK 7—WK 18
/ 06Readout
Closed-book. Total attributed leads, sourced pipeline, ROAS by fence and by channel. Then we plan the next event — usually the most profitable one is the one your team almost cut.Output · Pipeline-bound report · Next-event playbook
WK 19
FIG. 05 The difference

What we do.
What we don't.

We do

  • Draw polygons by hand for every venue in your portfolio.
  • Send a crew to capture content during the event week.
  • Run every major platform — Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snap, Reddit, YouTube.
  • Report lead-by-lead, fence-by-fence, channel-by-channel.
  • Match leads back to your CRM before your Monday standup.
  • Carry the retargeting tail for 90 days after the event.
  • Tell you which event NOT to run on next year.

We don't

  • Sell programmatic sports-interest inventory.
  • Run brand-lift studies six months after the check clears.
  • Send a deck before we've seen your CRM.
  • Bundle "impressions delivered" as success.
  • Compete with your sponsorship deal — we activate it.
  • Hand off your campaign to an associate.
  • Bill for what we can't prove.

Read it twice.
Then call us.

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