Melt Sports/Culinary/Entertainment

In 2000, Vince Thompson founded and has built MELT into one of the nation's largest independent sports, culinary and entertainment marketing agencies. This includes MELT’s 22-year representation of The Coca-Cola Company, activating 19 straight Final Fours, 8 seasons of ESPN College GameDay, MLS, Nascar, PGA, and Olympics. Other clients include AFLAC, their sponsorship of the SEC, HBCUs, NCAA, Coach Deion Sanders, Alabama Coach Nick Saban. MELT is a full-service agency offering services including brand strategy, event and experiential marketing, social and digital content production, retail and shopper marketing, sports property and sponsorship strategy and execution. Thompson also created one of the country's most successful virtual intern programs, MELT University, based on his experience of working his way through Auburn University as a student assistant in the Sports Information Department. MELT University now guides 1000s of college students with career and internship advice, podcasts, weekly newsletters,