“…While recognizing that all elements of marketing and marketing communications possess different features and capabilities, sponsorship is most often contrasted with media advertising in general (Hastings, ; Hoek et al, ; McDonald, ; Meenaghan ) and indeed with specific aspects of advertising (Olson & Thjømøe, , ; Walliser, ). The comparison of sponsorship and traditional advertising has been previously addressed in terms of a range of discernible differences which included the mutuality of benefit, the consumer interaction process, the comparative nature of the communications process, as well as sponsorship's location at the “leisure end of marketing.” While sponsorship may be different in certain respects, such differences are no impediment to the task of performance measurement and, thus, the “sponsorship is different” argument is largely irrelevant to the need for or ability to undertake proper performance analysis (Meenaghan, ).…”