Sportaccord Convention Announces Multi-Year Sales & Marketing Agreement With Vital Communications

Nis Hatt, viagra Managing Director of SportAccord Convention announced today that VITAL Communications has been chosen to assist with expanding the Convention’s reach beginning in 2015 with the World Sport & Business Summit in Sochi, cough Russia.

The SportAccord Convention World Sport & Business Summit is the world’s premier annual event at the service of sport, mind focused on driving positive change internationally, and dedicated to engaging rights holders, organising committees, cities, press and media, businesses and other organisations in the development of sport.

Nis Hatt, Managing Director, SportAccord Convention said, “Mr. Vitale, an attorney, has more than 35 years’ experience in the television industry, including Executive positions at NBC Television Network and ABC Sports.

“By collaborating with one of the pioneers of Sportel, we truly strengthen the presence of media providers available to delegates.”

In making the announcement, William Vitale, President of VITAL Communications commented, “I am very excited to be supporting the growth plans of SportAccord Convention. We have a wonderful opportunity to broaden participation and help to make the annual World Sport & Business Summit a must attend event for all sectors of the international sports community.”

Nis Hatt, Managing Director, SportAccord Convention concluded by saying, “As the Convention grows, it is important to encourage involvement and engage with organisations across all industry sectors and having VITAL Communications on-board will ensure a broad representation of media and increased service quality for our delegates.”

SportAccord Convention 2015 will take place 19-24 April 2015 in Sochi, Russia and will be held at the Sochi Expocentre. For more Convention information and to register visit www.sportaccordconvention.com.

Titans Owner Bud Adams Dies

Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams has died “peacefully from natural causes” at the age of 90.

Adams helped found the American Football League and helped lead a merger with the National Football League (NFL).

He built his own energy fortune and founded the Houston Oilers, ambulance before moving the team to Tennessee in 1997.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell paid tribute to Adams and said: “As a founding owner of the American Football League that began play in 1960, anesthetist Bud saw the potential of pro football and brought the game to new cities and new heights of popularity, first in Houston and then in Nashville.”

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones also paid his respects and added: “I consider Bud one of the founders of the game of professional football because of his role in helping to create the American Football League.”

Adams secured 409 wins with the Titans, more than any current NFL owner.

His franchise reached their only Super Bowl after the 1999 season but lost 23-16 to the Rams.

Fifa in Deal with Olympic Channel

Fifa has entered into a co-operation agreement with the Olympic Channel, treatment becoming the 36th international federation to do so.

The deal will provide the Olympic Channel with news access and content licences, clinic and aims to  continue the promotion of soccer as an Olympic sport.

This latest announcement follows October’s news that six international federations, including the International Cycling Union (ICU), had signed agreements with the Olympic Channel.

Mark Parkman, general manager of the Olympic Channel, said: “Football is one the most popular sports on the planet, and we are excited to work together with Fifa to amplify the excitement of football at the Olympic Games.”

Only four international federations for sports involved in the Summer Olympics have yet to agree deals with the Olympic Channel, although this does include the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Social Media Manager – Fulham FC

Location: London, cough UK

Closing date: 15th December 2016

Overview: 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Social Media Manager to join Fulham Football Club. Reporting to the Communications Director you will lead on social media strategy, viagra ed ensuring that it is aligned to the Club communications strategy and delivers effective campaigns on behalf of our supporters and partners

You will develop, view enhance and maximise our owned channel strategy and ensure campaigns are captivating and effective. You will ensure trending topics and new initiatives are monitored and managed positively and efficiently and develop a system to report this to the wider business. You will be able to analyse data to make recommendations to improve strategic decision making and implementation and maximise our current social strategy.

The successful candidate will contribute to the weekly editorial process, ensuring a collaborative approach across all key stakeholders, provide advice on all social media spend and activate paid for initiatives across relative platforms. You will work side by side with the editorial team to develop a long term strategy around content on both matchday and non-matchday.

A demonstrable understanding to share insights and social understanding of trends and behaviours for our audience is essential as is an effective level of reporting.

You will be an exceptional communicator with proven community management and social strategy experience. You will have an in depth understanding of local markets’, consumers, economic environment and commercial needs.

This is fantastic opportunity for a creative individual who has previous experience within sport or youth related marketing within global brands to join our progressive team.

If you think you can add Value to the Team please email your CV stating your salary expectations to recruitment@fulhamfc.com

Top 5 EXCLUSIVES of the Week


SPECIAL REPORT: Predicting the future of sport

Sport has arguably changed quicker than it ever has done over the last 10 years.
In 2006, Facebook was still limited to University and College students, Twitter was just an idea in a notebook, foreign owners had yet to seriously arrive into football, and the iPhone was still a year away.
Each of those things, social media, foreign ownership and mobile fans have gone on to reshape sport immeasurably in 10 years.

TV rights fees have also increased 500% – in 2006 domestic Premier League rights were valued at around £1.7 billion, now it’s over £5 billion.

Predicting what shape sport will take in the next ten years is hardly an exact science, but Professor Simon Chadwick of Salford University has helped several top brands try future proof their strategies. iSportconnect asked him where the next major change will come from.
Read his thoughts HERE
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Sir Philip Craven: No plans to change Paralympic schedule

The president of the International Paralympic Committee, Sir Philip Craven, has told iSportconnect that there are no plans to change the hosting of the Paralympics so that it comes before the Olympic Games.

Craven was speaking to iSC at the close of the Rio 2016 Paralympics. The Games officially came to an end with the closing ceremony at the Maracana on Sunday.

The build-up to the Rio Games were fraught with complications ranging from the effects of Brazil’s economic and political crises to late infrastructure developments and poor ticket sales.

The problems particularly affected the Paralympics with budget cuts having to be made in the immediate weeks prior to the opening ceremony.
Read more HERE
NFL Renovations for the Future by Populous’ Scott Radecic

With the NFL 2016 regular season underway, American football fans return to stadiums across the United States – and the world in the case of the NFL’s burgeoning international series – to revel in the action.
They do so with a host of alternative and competing game experiences at hand, from home theatres to pubs to mobile streaming. So what keeps them coming back to the in-person experience?
As my colleague Scott Radecic explains, NFL franchises continue to renovate stadiums with the help of experts like Populous to offer fans the best of both worlds: the comforts of home and face-to-face camaraderie.
Read Scott’s thoughts HERE
“Surprising” lack of access for Premier League’s disabled fans

Up to a third of Premier League clubs have admitted they will fall short on their pledge to provide wheelchair access to fans by August 2017, including Chelsea and Liverpool.

Currently, Chelsea only provide half of the recommended wheelchair space at their home stadium and according to The Telegraph, they have now said they can only meet minimum numbers when they have rebuilt their stadium and have not provided a timescale for when this would be. Additionally, Everton, Watford and Manchester United have less than half of the recommended number of wheelchair spaces.

Meanwhile, Arsenal and Leicester City are among the clubs that have already met the targets, with the former also intending to go beyond the minimum wheelchair space guideline of 250.

Speaking exclusively to iSportconnect, Stuart Cain, Managing Director at The Ticket Factory was keen to point out potential paths clubs could take to help their disabled fans.

Read Stuart’s thoughts HERE

Performance Insight: A Day in the Life of a Modern Pentathlete

Sporting performance is becoming a more important focus area of the business of sport, and one which iSportconnect will naturally be paying increasing attention to.
The UIPM, world governing body of the Olympic sport of modern pentathlon, is responsible for a sport in which athletes face the special challenge of maximizing performance in five very different areas of competition: running, swimming, fencing, riding and shooting.

That means enforcing a change in mindset five times a day. How does the brain work as the pentathletes switch from discipline to discipline, and how do they stay in control?

During the Rio Games, the UIPM shared the fascinating insights into the mental approach of one of its Olympic athletes, Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe of Ireland, who finished in 8th place the final 3200 metre running and shooting segment in Rio.
Read a diary of a Pentathlete HERE


Mitsubishi Motors joins England Rugby as Official Performance Partner

Mitsubishi Motors has been unveiled as the Official Performance Partner to England Rugby.

As Official Performance Partner to England Rugby, Mitsubishi Motors will be supporting England U18s, U20s and the player pathway, as well as the England Senior team and the England training centre, now named the Mitsubishi Motors England Rugby Training Centre.

The automotive company’s Intelligent Motion brand positioning will be brought to life through a unique fan-based campaign, launching this season.

England Rugby head coach Eddie Jones has also been announced as a brand ambassador.

Lance Bradley, Managing Director of Mitsubishi Motors in the UK, said: “We are very excited to be joining forces with England Rugby and Eddie Jones.

“The core values of the game of rugby align perfectly with our own and the England Rugby partnership comes as a natural progression of the work we are doing, and have already done, to support rugby. We are looking forward to seeing the partnership evolve as we head towards Japan 2019.”

Regional Cable Baseball Ratings Are Rosy

Major League Baseball teams are sitting pretty in the regional television ratings in the USA this season (which is just about halfway over).

On nights when they play, viagra without prescription no fewer than 22 teams deliver the number one primetime show on cable with their games. Overall, pill 10 teams are the top primetime programming attractions in their home markets.

That good news from regional cable follows the poor results of the national broadcast of the 2016 All-Star Game in San Diego earlier this month on Fox, which pulled its lowest ever audience with only 8.707 million viewers. In 2006, the All-Star Game was watched by 14.4 million, and back in 1996, there were 18.5 million viewers.

But bear in mind that in 1996, viewing of the game was already down from 28.5 million a decade earlier.

 

iSportconnect stage engaging and insightful London Directors’ Club

iSportconnect staged one of its best ever Directors’ Club events in London on Wednesday evening at the offices of law firm Lewis Silkin.

The event proved to be extremely insightful, ampoule with a high level of engagement between the delegates and the panellists from start to finish.

This was facilitated by the expertise provided by the panel which featured sports promoter and Matchroom Sport managing director Eddie Hearn, Stoke City F.C., & Bet365 chairman Peter Coates and BBC director of sport Barbara Slater.

The attendees included representatives from major sports clubs/teams, governing bodies, federations and brands such as Tottenham Hotspur F.C., UEFA, Everton F.C., Team Sky, PGA Europe, Wembley Stadium, Force India F1, BBC, EY, Harlequins RFC, UK Sport, The FA, Discovery and many more.

The panel gave their views on some of the pressing issues currently in the sports industry such as what the impact of Britian’s potential departure from the E.U. could have on British sport.

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This was followed by a lengthy discussion on the rise of OTT platforms in sport and how this is benefitting consumers. Barbara gave her thoughts on what impact this would have on broadcasters and how the BBC are adapting to the needs of the younger generation.

The following topic was centred on traditional sports featuring at the Olympic Games and if this had any value for them. Eddie Hearn provided his opinions on boxing at the Olympics and how professional boxers felt towards this.

The evening was ended with both the panellists and delegates sharing their views on the rise of China and its growing influence and power in sports, particularly in football after the recent influx of big-money signings in the Chinese Premier League.

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Speaking after the event Barbara Slater said: “I really enjoyed the event and learnt a lot from it I was glad to be a part of it. The topics discussed and the manner in which they were discussed between us on the panel and the audience was great and I found it very engaging.”

Eddie Hearn added: “I thought it was a great event, it was really interactive which was the best aspect of it and I’m pleased to have been a part of it.”

This was the first of what is set to be a number of iSportconnect events this year. Our next event will be the Digital Strategy Masterclass on 13th April and the Sports Performance Masterclass on 26th April.

Stay tuned to iSportconnect TV for highlights to this event and iSportconnect.com for further event announcements in the coming weeks.

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