TY - CHAP U1 - Teil eines Buches A1 - Nufer, Gerd A1 - Bühler, André ED - Chadwick, Simon ED - Chavanat, Nicolas ED - Desbordes, Michel T1 - A theoretical and empirical overview of ambush marketing in sports T2 - Routledge handbook of sports marketing N2 - For many companies, it is major international sporting events (in particular the Football World Cup or the Olympic Games) that constitute the ideal platform for the integration of their target group-specific marketing communication into an attractive sports environment. Sports event organizers sell exclusive marketing rights for their events to official sponsors, who, in return, acquire exclusive options to utilize the event for their own advertising purposes. Ambush marketing is the method used by companies that do not hold marketin rights to an event, but still use their marketing activities in diverse ways to establish a connection to it. There is still whidespread debate and confusion about the topic. Ambush marketing is often defined in different ways, by different people, according to their position as either supporters of opponents of the practice. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-1-138-82351-8 SB - 978-1-138-82351-8 SP - 161 EP - 179 S1 - 19 PB - Routledge CY - London ; New York ER -