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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Riders #3 In Canada



Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) have the strongest brand among professional sports teams in the country, concludes an opinion survey with Canadian sports fans released today by Insightrix Research Inc.

Toronto Maple Leafs, also of the NHL, ranked second, Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) was third and Toronto Blue Jays, Canada’s lone team in Major League Baseball (MLB) was fourth.

Insightrix, an internationally-recognized research firm based in Saskatoon, conducted the survey in collaboration with the Phoenix Group, a Regina-based advertising agency.

“A total of 2,676 randomly-selected sports fans were polled online May 8-26 in nine Canadian metro areas that are home to professional sports franchises,” explained Mario Caceres, senior research executive with Insightrix.

“Results were weighted to accurately represent the population in each metro area as a percentage of the national population and by the proportion of followers of each sports league in those areas.”

Metro areas surveyed were: Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Regina, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg.  Because the research was conducted online, he said it is considered to be a non-probability proportion sample and therefore, margins of error are not applicable.

Sports fans from the nine metro areas that are home to professional sports franchises were asked a series of questions to better understand their perception of NHL, CFL and MLB as well as the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Major League Soccer team brands in Canada.

Five key brand metrics were measured including first brand that comes to mind, their level of respect for team brands as well as their perception of the most loyal fans, team popularity and stadium atmosphere, Caceres said.

“The top four brand rankings were developed using a statistically-valid combination of the team’s rankings in each of the categories surveyed,” he said. 
The most respected team is the Canadiens, followed by the Roughriders, Blue Jays and Alouettes.  When it comes to popularity, fans perceive the Montreal Canadiens to be the most popular, followed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Alouettes.
The Canadiens edge out the Roughriders as the team perceived to have the most loyal fans.
Across all leagues the Montreal Canadiens have the strongest brand nationally followed by the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Toronto Blue Jays.
The top ten brands across all sports include three NHL teams, four CFL teams, one team each from the NBA, MLB and MLS.
The research reveals that individual NHL brands are very strong, but mostly in their local or regional markets. CFL brands also consistently show strength in local markets, however CFL teams enjoy greater out of market brand affinity.  Toronto and Montreal-based team rankings across all sports benefitted from the larger population base in their local areas.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reserch conducted online?

2676 biasd.randomly selected sports fans?

Insightrix a Internationally-recognized research team based In Saskatoon

Phoenix Group a Regina based-advertising agency.

Most highly probable another Rder commissioned waste of money.

Anonymous said...

We are Canada's team for a reason!!!

GO RIDERS!!

Anonymous said...

That's true, merchandise sales through the roof for years and highly visible. Rider brand popular across this country and beyond, that's not news, that's old news, unless you live in a cave. Why waste money pumping the tires on a useless survey on something everyone knows already?

Anonymous said...

Reserch says Montreal "Canadians".

Go Roughriders.

Anonymous said...

Did the survey ask who has the biggest bandwagon fans. Riders are #1 there for sure.

Anonymous said...

Hey Anon #6, the amount of bandwagon fans the Riders have still outnumber the fans of any other team in the CFL.

Anonymous said...

Saskatchewan Roughrider marketing/news over saturated in Saskatchewan it's sickening at times, ie; television commercials, news media, (paper/radio/blogs), provincial/civic politics, advertised merchandising, etc. Nice to see success in this 9 team semi-professional league as it's the only game in town/province for the people to cheer for.

Go Riders!