Sportlobster To Sponsor Bt Sport Industry Awards
Sportlobster, the sports social network, will sponsor the BT Sport Industry Awards 2014, to be held in London on Thursday 8th May.
The platform, which was born out of the frustration that sports fans face in having to visit multiple sites or download multiple apps to get their sporting fix, allows them to share and exchange opinions with their peers around the world, stay up to date with news, blogs, fixtures and scores, enter competitions, and interact in a wide range of other sport-focused ways.
Sportlobster will sponsor the Best Use of Social Media category at the industry’s flagship event, which will bring together 1,750 key influential figures from across the business of sport, as well as star names from the entertainment world, sporting legends, and the nation’s media.
Nick Keller, Chairman of the Sport Industry Group, commented: ‘It’s very fitting that an Award which looks to recognise the most innovative and successful social media work of the year should be backed by a company that is helping sport’s use of social media evolve in a new direction. There is some incredibly exciting social and digital media coming from across the industry, and Sportlobster is planning to play a key role in that in the years to come.’
Andy Meikle, the CEO of Sportlobster, added: ‘We are delighted to be an official partner of the BT Sport Industry Awards. Both sport and social media are at the heart of Sportlobster, so it is hugely exciting to be sponsoring the Best Use of Social Media category. The role of social media within sport is growing ever more influential and Sportlobster is determined to revolutionise the ways in which fans and athletes interact and communicate.’
The BT Sport Industry Awards ceremony – to be held at Battersea Evolution in London on Thursday 8th May – will once again be a sell-out event in 2014. The Judging Process for the BT Sport Industry Awards involves the contribution of more than 50 industry professionals across more than 60 hours, with the entire process overseen at all times by Deloitte, the Official Independent Scrutineers of the BT Sport Industry Awards.
A handful of tables and individual places are still available for the BT Sport Industry Awards 2014, and can be booked here.
BT is the Headline Partner of the BT Sport Industry Awards. Official Partners include Barclays, Deloitte and Eurosport.
