Now, let's talk about the kind of rights sponsorship endows to a brand. There are many different kinds of rights involved in sponsorship, and a brand negotiates what kind of rights he gets. Many times this depends on how much money the brand wishes to spend, but it also may involve what kind of rights a team wishes to devolve to one brand or rather wishes to have several brands participate. Important rights include the right to use a logo, name, trademark, or particular graphic representations. The right to an exclusive association within a particular category. So, brand might pay more to not have competitors within the same category. Lastly, the right to entitlement to an event or facility. This could be naming an event, or naming a facility, or the right to have a particular titling of a part of an event. You could also have the right to use various designations or phrases in connection with the product, such as the official sponsor of or the official suppliers presented by. You could have the right of service, the use of a product, or exclusive use of a product in conjunction with the event. So, let's say you wanted to be the official drink supplier or the official car supplier, you could have the right to conduct certain promotional activities, such as the only brand to be able to advertise at the event, or the only brand to be able to promote within 15 minutes of the start of the event, or to produce Wi-Fi at the event. Sponsorship includes a wide array of activities associated with the communication process that is designed to utilize lifestyle marketing to reach a specific targeted audience. Sponsorship agreements between a company brand and a league, team, or event can either include exclusive or non-exclusive rights. Exclusive means you have to define the category, and you're the only person within that category. Many times, teams or leagues wish to define the category as narrowly as possible because they wish to sell as many rights as possible. The brand wishes to define it as broadly as possible because they wish to have as large a category as they can. There's one more right than needs to be discussed, and that's the pass-through rights. Many times, a brand will want to bring in a partner. So, for example, that soda company may want to bring in a grocery store chain that isn't paying for the rights but wants to be a partner in a retail promotion. The soda company will actually negotiate to be able to pass-through their rights to a grocery store chain for a specific time or a specific promotion.