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Wednesday,
March 1st 2007
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Servecast, Europe's leading provider of advanced
broadband video solutions to the sports industry
and Goal.com, the largest football website worldwide
are delighted to announce their partnership to
bring a football broadband video subscription
service to Goal.com's website users.
The partnership was announced today at the Servecast
New Media Sportscasting Summit in the Emirates
Stadium in London, which brings together some
of the very biggest clubs in European soccer and
sports broadcasting to share their experiences
in growing successful broadband video services.
Goal.com has the largest online football community
in the world with over 6 million unique monthly
visitors in over 210 countries in a site which
supports 16 languages. Goal.com provides an internet
and mobile platform to support this community.Servecast
provides and hosts advanced broadband video subscription
services for leading European football clubs including
FC Barcelona, Liverpool FC, Manchester United,
Chelsea, Arsenal, Celtic, Rangers and Everton.
Using Servecast's Media Studio platform, Goal.com
will establish a sophisticated video subscription
website with various video content elements. Servecast
and Goal.com will also form a strategic relationship
that will involve working together to acquire
content and also to establish synergies with Servecast's
existing customer-base of leading broadcasters
and soccer clubs.
The main broadband video channels for the service
will include Team Channels based around footage
from various clubs; a Goal.com News channel based
on Goal.com's magazine news programme and an Archive
channel which will consist of video footage of
famous goals.
There will also be a channel devoted to video
content submitted by Goal.com's international
team of journalists and this will include player
profiles. The launch date for the broadband video
subscription platform over the Goal.com website
is July 2007.
Speaking today, Darach Deehan, CEO of Servecast
said "We are delighted to announce this partnership
with Goal.com, the leading football news website
in the world. Servecast will work to identify
synergies such as syndication of client content
over Goal.com's website. The idea is to create
a worldwide video channel thanks to Goal.com distribution
at present in 16 languages capable of aggregating
and syndicating a selection of the best football
content."
Also speaking today, Francesco Merighi, President
of Goal.com said "We are very keen to develop
our website with a broadband video service, something
we see as key to the growth of our service. We
pride ourselves on delivering the best football
content and that our website enhances each and
every user's experience. We believe that Servecast's
advanced streaming media solutions can help to
distinguish us from any other sporting media company."
About Servecast
Founded in 1998, Servecast is the leading provider
of audio and video webcasting solutions for the
Sports and Media sectors. Through its proprietary
Media Studio platform, Servecast provides access
to a fast growing global broadband audience for
high value content such as News and Sport thereby
generating additional revenue streams for content
owners. Servecast is the partner of choice for
sports broadcasters such as BSkyB, At The Races
and Setanta Sports and facilitates the most commercially
successful sports webcasting services in Europe.
Servecast customers include Sky Sports, FC Barcelona,
Liverpool FC, Manchester United FC, Chelsea FC,
Arsenal FC, Rangers FC, the GAA, At The Races
and the England and Wales Cricket Board.
For more details contact:
Kathrina Gallogly
Marketing and Communications Manager
Servecast Ltd.,
http://www.servecast.com
Phone: +353 (0) 1 4748013
Fax: +353 (0) 1 4748003
Paul Mace
Managing Director
Macesport PR
Tel: +44 (0)1159 895421
Fax: +44 (0)1159 402010
paul.mace@macesport.co.uk
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