![]() This jeopardized the original trademark of Spikeball, especially if more brands continued to market similar equipment under the same name.įor this, Spikeball Inc., under Chris Ruder, came up with a solution in order to protect the trademark of their brand. However, with all that mainstream success, the competition started appearing, and other sport equipment manufacturers wanted to produce spikeball sets and monetize on the game. You see, the first set of spikeball invented in 1989 was also called spikeball, and then when Chris Ruder discovered it and revived it, due to the trademark being expired, he took on the same name and made it famous. Well, as I wrote about it here, the name Spikeball comes with a lot of confusion around it because of the whole revival of the brand. on at 10:15am PDT And What About The Name? Snow is just winter sand (via #spikeball #jointhemovementĪ post shared by Spikeball Inc. Magazine started featuring spikeball, which additionally amplified this sport’s popularity in the mainstream media. Still, even though they didn’t close that deal immediately in the following months, spikeball had already gained some significant publicity and hit it off, and that’s how Spikeball founded mainstream success.Īfter that, shows and publications like Dude Perfect (one of the most influential sports entertainment groups with 38 million YouTube subscribers), “The Today Show” and Inc. appeared on the final episode of season 6, which made it mainstream popular for the first time right there.Ĭhris Ruder offered Daymond John 20% of the company for $500,000. However, this also didn’t put spikeball in the spotlight as much as “Shark Tank” did in 2015. This was when the internet trends started turning in favor of spikeball with hundreds of new searches every day, and this shouldn’t come as a surprise given how fun spikeball is to play. on at 11:22am PDT Gaining popularityĪfter that huge success, large retailers like Dick’s Sporting Goods acquired spikeball in their stores to sell. ![]() These are your backyard butcheries of the month #backyardbutchery #spikeball #jointhemovementĪ post shared by Spikeball Inc. In the month of August these crusaders chose game over grass, fun over fertilizer, backhand aces over backyard places. was launched in 2008, he used his basement as a warehouse, and in the next 5 years, he generated over $1 million in annual revenue. After a few years of doing the necessary market research and improvements on the spikeball set, and after redesigning the old equipment, he started marketing it and selling it as such. When he got a hold of the game, he got so interested that he did a research after only to see that the game’s trademark had expired and there was no patent on it, and it was definitely in need of some restoration and upgrading.Īfter seeing the potential, he decided to seize the opportunity and acquired the trademark for just $800. How come?ĭuring his trip to Hawaii in 2003, his friends brought their old spikeball set to play. It wasn’t until 2004-5 when Spikeball Inc.’s CEO Chris Ruder revived spikeball by making some design changes and improving the original equipment. However, it slowly began fading away because the inventor or other toy producers didn’t update the equipment, which somehow became obsolete. In the next 6 years, spikeball was quite popular and played by many people. The origins of spikeball go back to the toymaker Jeff Knurek in 1989, who invented it and marketed it through the Japanese entertainment company Tomy. on at 9:46am PDT When was spikeball invented? ![]() Who thinks they could take a game off these guys? #spikeball #jointhemovementĪ post shared by Spikeball Inc. ![]()
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