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Nielsen Sports is the leading source of sports measurement, analytics and insights around the world. With unrivaled data, products and consulting services, the company is uniquely positioned to provide leagues, teams, federations, brands and agencies with global solutions to optimize sponsorship portfolios and maximize investments in sports.
Nielsen Sports is deeply committed to developing new offerings that meet client needs, and last year launched a Nielsen Esports business vertical; created a new unified media measurement platform; and acquired artificial intelligence technology that will help shape the future of the sports business. Nielsen Sports is part of Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE:NLSN) a S&P 500 company with operations in over 100 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
With SAP solutions, sports and entertainment organizations are driving world-class innovation to: Engage fans like never before, improve player and team performance, maximize revenue streams – grow existing and create new ones, help teams, leagues, and venues run simply.
SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, SAP is at the center of today’s business and technology revolution. Our innovations enable more than 291,000 customers worldwide to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively.
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Avid delivers the most open and efficient media platform, connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption. Avid’s preeminent customer community uses Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and monetize the most watched, loved and listened to media in the world—from prestigious and award-winning feature films, to popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, and celebrated music recordings and live concerts.
Blinkfire Analytics provides a social media analytics and publishing platform for professional sports organizations, their players and agents, and the brands that sponsor them. The platform sits in the middle of the teams, players, brands, and fans to provide intelligence on social media publishing and sponsorship sales.
Blinkfire’s key technology allows publishers and brands to analyze social media consumption and brand engagement, not only in text, but also images and video. Concentrated first in the world of sports, we are able to paint a 360 degree engagement picture for teams, players, and brands.
The City Football Group is a holding company established to oversee the creation and administration of a network of linked clubs and other footballing operations under the aegis of Manchester City.
Facebook brings together the world’s largest community of sports fans.
Sports are inherently social, with the power to build and connect communities around the world. This connection happens on Facebook, where the largest real-time social media audience comes together to talk about sports’ biggest moments. On Facebook, fans discover rich and immersive video that brings them closer to the sports, athletes and teams they love. Innovations such as Facebook Live and Facebook 360 video give fans unprecedented access to the action, taking them on the field and in the locker room, inviting them to interact directly with their favourite players and enabling them to watch live games from around the world.
By leveraging Facebook, partners can reach new audiences and experiment with interactive, social and mobile-first broadcasts. Facebook also helps partners achieve their business goals by growing and engaging their fan base; supporting current revenue drivers such as tune-in, subscriptions, sponsorship and ticket and merchandise sales; and providing new revenue streams such as branded content, Instant Articles and ad breaks in live video.
FanThreeSixty is a sports technology company developing fan-centric software solutions for sports teams and properties around the world. Through data capture, content distribution and customised experiences, its award-winning solution helps sports organisations understand and influence every single fan, both inside and outside the venue. Developed by owners and executives of Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer, FanThreeSixty aggregates data from disparate sources into a centralised location, creating enriched fan profiles, advanced segmentation opportunities, and the ability to engage with fans directly through a suite of business tools.
Green 4 enable customers to utilise data to build improved fan relationships and create compelling digital journeys across the sport and leisure industries. Their combination of an innovative CRM platform, Smart Web fan engagement portal, Business Intelligence dashboard and range of specialist services will empower you to put your fans at the heart of your business. As your partner, we are committed to your success and focused on delivering results using cutting edge, insight led strategies.
As an international leader in sports facilities design, HOK’s expertise encompasses arenas, stadiums, training facilities, recreation centers, entertainment venues and mixed-use districts. Our designs contribute to the vitality of the broader community while creating value for clients and stakeholders by generating revenue, maximizing efficiencies and ensuring that developments contribute to the health of people and the environment.
Through a network of 23 offices worldwide, HOK delivers design excellence and innovation to clients globally. Recent projects include Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Avaya Stadium in San Jose, Rogers Place Arena in Edmonton and Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona. For more information, visit www.hok.com
A pioneer in the spontech space, Hookit is the leading single-source platform for quantifying sports sponsorship value in today’s age of new media. Hookit works with brands and rights holders across sports and esports, including the likes of Audi, Activision Blizzard, the Boston Celtics, and more to expand their sponsorship intelligence, allowing them to buy and sell sponsorships more effectively.
To learn more, visit www.hookit.com.
Interregional Sports Group (ISG) is a full-service international sports media group focused on global premium sports. With its HQ in London, ISG focuses on regionalising broadcast technology and strategies. ISG strives to provide its clients with the optimal audience engagement products. Working across all five top European football leagues, including the UEFA Champions League, on some of the best sports TV production in the world, to state-of-the-art virtual advertising technologies and traditional media our philosophy is always ‘globally impactful but regionally relevant.’
KORE Software is the global leader in sports and entertainment business management solutions. Their applications help more than 100 Major League teams and 200 universities worldwide harness valuable customer and partner data – including their preferences and behaviors – create valuable insights, and turn them into powerful revenue-generating action.
From ticketing and fan engagement to sponsorship to managing suites and premium offerings, KORE offers a complete team of applications that drives sales, streamlines business processes and takes profitability to a whole new level.
LaLiga is a sports association made up of the clubs and public limited sports companies that compete in the professional ranks of the Spanish football league (Primera and Segunda Division). Since 2010, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics has considered the top tier of the Spanish game to be the best league in the world, in view of the record-breaking honours held by the competition’s affiliated clubs and players.
In its efforts to guarantee the sustainability of the professional game, LaLiga is firmly committed to the fight against piracy and promotes fair play in a competition which is free of match-fixing and completely rejects violence.
Sport is a matter of love, passion and greatness. It touches our daily lives and creates a depth of human engagement unmatched in the modern world. Professional sports count over 7 billion fans worldwide.
The digital revolution has unlocked new opportunities for clubs, leagues and federations to challenge the convention to re-think how sports is played, coached, watched, and experienced.
Microsoft empowers sports organisations to do more by accelerating the value imagined and realised from their digital experiences. By working together, to unlock opportunities where business, experience, and technology intersect creating unique, novel experiences for fans and partners.
We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy focused on guiding our clients through many of the planet’s most intricate challenges.
The needs of the world’s population are changing fast. Our network of experts, active in 150 countries, finds opportunities in complexity, turning obstacles into elegant, sustainable solutions. By looking at problems from a fresh angle, we aim to add value at every stage, for our clients – you – and the lives you touch every day.
Improvement is at the heart of what we offer: better economic development, better social and environmental outcomes, better businesses and a better return on your investment.
Octagon is an award-winning strategic and creative marketing agency specialising in sport and culture. Octagon help brands such as Mastercard, Budweiser and Shell create partnerships, campaigns and experiences. All of their work is underpinned by insights, and backed by a bold ambition: To create work that earns attention.
OMNIGON is a team of digital strategists, artists and technologists working exclusively in the areas of consumer loyalty, audience growth and digital content delivery. Since its founding in 2008, OMNIGON has established itself as a market leader, focused on helping clients achieve returns on the strategic, creative and technical investments they’ve made. OMNIGON, headquartered in New York and with teams in Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Kiev and St. Petersburg, works with celebrated, global brands including the PGA TOUR, AS Roma, the German Football Association (DFB), NASCAR, the United States Golf Association, Verizon INDYCAR, and CONCACAF, among countless others.
In June 2016, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) launched the OneTeam Collective, a groundbreaking, athlete-driven business accelerator delivering value to up-and-coming companies by unlocking access to professional athletes, their intellectual property, as well as a world-class team of investors and strategic partners.
The OneTeam Collective considers business ventures and product ideas related to fan engagement, data analytics, performance and training, mobile fitness, sports nutrition, consumer products, fantasy sports, gaming, wearable technology, new media, as well as virtual and augmented reality.
Proskauer’s Sports Law Group has been recognized by Chambers as “first-rate” with clients praising that “Proskauer is pretty much unparalleled.” As part of its “best in class – smart, focused and committed” practice, the firm represents a broad range of clients in antitrust; acquisitions of sports teams; sports-related financings; television, media and distribution agreements; stadium and arena development; key facility contracts, including naming rights, cornerstones and seat licenses; production and distribution of sports content across all platforms; e-Commerce and technology acquisition and licensing; joint ventures between sports entities and media and technology companies; collective bargaining agreements with players, referees, umpires and other game officials; and litigation matters involving the most pressing issues facing sports.
Seaters is a marketing activation company who capture demand for events ahead of time and turn sponsored and sponsor purchased seats into activation assets that can unlock value many times beyond the price of the seats themselves.
A Seaters Wish List allows a sponsor to engage with the entire target audience, creating a goodwill message to all and collecting valuable data points along the way – not just for those who will attend the event.
Abu Dhabi is a global capital for sports tourism, training and international competition. Sport in Abu Dhabi showcases and celebrates the UAE capital as a world-class destination for winter training and off-season competition for teams, federations, governing bodies and athletes. Sport in Abu Dhabi also facilitates sports tourism in the Emirate, encouraging visitors to compete, play and watch great sporting events.
Sportradar is a global leader in understanding and leveraging the power of sports data and digital content for its clients around the world. We provide cutting-edge solutions and services to media companies, bookmakers, sports federations and state authorities.
We are a truly international organisation, employing over 1,900 people in more than 30 locations around the world. It is our commitment to excellent service, quality and reliability that makes us the trusted partner of more than 1,000 companies in over 80 countries.
Stantec are active members of the communities they serve. That’s why at Stantec, they always design with community in mind. The Stantec community unites approximately 22,000 employees working in over 400 locations across six continents. Their work—engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics, from initial project concept and planning through design, construction, and commissioning—begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Stantec has the unique ability to connect to projects on a personal level and advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.
STATS is the global leader in sports intelligence. Trusted by the world’s most innovative teams, leagues and brands seeking the winning edge at the intersection of sports and technology, STATS combines the industry’s fastest and most accurate data platform with video analysis, sports content and research, player tracking through STATS SportVU®, and a range of customizable digital solutions for brands.
The pioneer of live sports data, STATS continues to speed innovation in the industry today to enhance both team performance and fan experience.
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TOK.tv empowers teams and brands to talk to the fans, and monetize the game experience. As the social network of the official apps of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Los Angeles Clippers, Tottenham Hotspur, Serie A TIM, GuoAn Beijing and more, TOK.tv allows tens of millions of avid fans to talk to their friends, while they watch a game on TV.
Evolution Dome is the UK’s leading inflatable structure hire and sales company. Catering to a corporate events market, they specialise in offering inflatable structures for conferences, exhibitions, product launches and brand awareness campaigns. Their huge range comprises of small indoor structures, ideal for meetings, seminars and pop up events, as well as massive 780sqm structures for outdoor events. The outdoor range includes domes, cubes and Airoof stage covers. All structures can be fully branded, and an in-house design team is on hand to help create bespoke structures which can be made to order. Evolution Dome has recently opened offices in Belgium and Australia, allowing them to offer their high class, inflatable structures to a worldwide market.
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Getty Images works with over 200,000 contributors and hundreds of image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 130,000 news, sport and entertainment events, impactful creative imagery to communicate any commercial concept and the world’s deepest digital archive of historic photography.
HotelPlanner.com is the leading provider of online services in the global group hotel marketplace, and an established resource for group event planners and hotel partners alike. Today, HotelPlanner.com provides its group travel technology expertise to over 4,200,000 group event planners globally while servicing $7 billion in group hotel booking requests in 2017 and an estimated $10 billion in 2018.
HotelPlanner.com’s Pro Sports Team clients most notably include, the Washington Redskins Professional Bowlers Association, and partnership with USA TODAY Sports Active Alliance. On an international scale, clients include, Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, European Professional Golfers (EuroPro), Triple Crown Sports, Matchroom Sport, Super League (Rugby), AFC Wimbledon, Euroleague Basketball, Millwall F.C., Hella Verona F.C., and Swansea F.C.
Snipperwall is the social conversation platform that unleashes the social conversation of every business and brings brands closer to their fans. We give you the opportunity to aggregate and amplify the social conversation surrounding your business and let you impress and excite every audience with our stunning visualizations. Displaying the social conversation on big screens will boost fan engagement and the social buzz around every brand, event and/or other subject.
With Snipperwall, you can display the social conversation real-time on every screen in and around your venue and you can even create an integration on your website. By inviting your fans to talk along and using the hashtag of your choice, the social conversation around your brand will be trending every time, generating a huge benefit for current and future sponsors and giving you an opportunity to reach the audience of your audience.
The Works was founded in 1989 and is celebrating 25 years of creative excellence, operating internationally and delivering:
Brand – everything from brand strategy, corporate identity, competition branding major sports event branding, publications and presentations to full collateral rollouts.
Motion – movie and video production, editing, motion graphics, visual FX, CGI animation and digital.
Events – events, conferences, experiential tours, fan zones, exhibitions and museum design.
We are proud to be working with the world’s biggest sporting federations; FIFA, UEFA, FIBA, IAAF, FIVB, ERC, RFL and NBA; everything from annual reports to online brand resources; from World Championships to World Cups.
2012 will see the launch of Works Brazil, with offices in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo and there is more to come.
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