Ian Campbell Named Md Of Omnisport

Omnisport, Perform Group’s sports news and content agency, has announced Ian Campbell as its new managing director.

Campbell joined Perform in 2012 and has held a number of senior roles, most recently executive vice president for content in Europe & the Middle East. Prior to Perform, he spent his early career working as a journalist on national news agencies, regional newspapers and digital publications, before assuming a senior commercial positions at the UK’s national news agency, The Press Association, including managing director of PA Sport.

Omnisport works with sports broadcasters and digital publishers including: beIN Sports; ESPN; DirecTV; Yahoo; Eurosport; Fox Sports Asia; Sky Sports; Astro; L’Equipe; and Diario AS.

Omnisport offers digital sports video in 15 languages and the service includes breaking news, match action and content with Opta sports data, together with up-to-the minute editorial content, including reports, news, exclusive interviews, features, data-enhanced editorial and live blogs.

Campbell said: “Omnisport has built a reputation as the trusted sports content partner for many of the world’s major broadcasters and digital publishers. It’s done that by constantly evolving its product to suit sports fans’ rapidly evolving content consumption habits, without ever losing sight of core principles of accuracy, speed and relevance. Listening very closely to its customers, Omnisport will continue to develop its product offering to ensure they continue to receive content that engages their viewers, readers and users.”