In order to examine Internet sponsor effectiveness, Sprint, one of the official sponsors for the NBA, was selected
for the study. This company accounts for the majority of sponsorship dollars allocated to the NBA and sponsors an
ancillary NBA event, which includes, for example, the Sprint Halftime Report. Furthermore, the brand name of this
sponsor is frequently exposed on the NBA website, while regularly presenting its commercial and banner ad before
and during game highlight videos. In order to present a commercial and banner ad of the sponsor, a mock NBA
website was developed as an exact copy of the original but allowed the researchers to control the commercial and
banner ad. The first page of the website (i.e., the main page of the NBA website) was comprised of six NBA video
clips. The second page included a 30-second commercial and banner ad of the corporate sponsor. The third page
was created in the same manner, except for substituting a three-minute NBA highlight video for the commercial.