USA TODAY Sports Media Group and Global Poker Index Announce Multi-Year Content Partnership
November 12 2015 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
The USA TODAY Sports Media Group and Global Poker Index (GPI)
announced today that they have entered into a multi-year content
partnership that currently expects USA TODAY Sports to host a
competitive poker-themed destination page, featuring GPI assets and
information, beginning about January 2016.
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Owned by Mediarex Sports and Entertainment, the goal of the
Global Poker Index is to “sportify poker,” which it does not only
through its rankings of the world’s top players but also through
its administration of leagues and competitions. Those will soon
include the new Global Poker League, featuring teams competing
around the world and livestreamed digitally by several GPI
partners, including USA TODAY Sports.
“The Global Poker Index has done more than any other
organization to unify poker and to see the possibilities that exist
for creating a ‘big league’ atmosphere around play,” said Jason
Ford, VP of Sports Marketing for the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.
“We’re looking forward to working together to create a 24/7 digital
poker destination, and to providing coverage for some of the
groundbreaking events that GPI is launching.”
The Global Poker League, set to launch in Q1 of 2016, will be
central to GPI’s ambitious plans to transform the world of poker.
With 12 initial franchises, including teams in New York, Los
Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco, the Global Poker League will
increase the entertainment value of poker, with immersive events
and engaging consumer content.
“We’re extremely pleased to be announcing this multi-year
content partnership with USA TODAY Sports,” said Alexandre Dreyfus,
CEO of the Global Poker Index. “The partnership will provide an
essential platform to showcase our innovative new events and to
promote the players ranked in the Global Poker Index. It’s great to
have the support and passion of an industry leader like USA TODAY
Sports, whose team shares in our vision to ‘sportify’ poker. We’re
looking forward to working closely with them over the coming
years.”
Terms of the partnership agreement were not disclosed.
About Global Poker Index
Global Poker Index (GPI) is live Poker’s leading ranking
authority - ranking more than 450,000 active players from 97+
countries across 250,000+ events - and serves as the official
leaderboard ranking system of the World Series of Poker, Latin
American Poker Tour and European Poker Tour among many others.
GPI’s Hendon Mob Database (www.thehendonmob.com) has archived over
a quarter million live poker tournaments and 1.4 Million+
individual results, continuing to do so via real-time data
collection from over 1,440 partner venues. GPI’s mission to
Sportify Poker drives its focus on platform, media and event
innovations within the Poker world; the company currently runs an
array of industry wide Poker initiatives including American Poker
Awards & Conference, European Poker Awards & Conference and
the Global Poker Masters.
About the USA TODAY Sports Media Group
The USA TODAY Sports Media Group encompasses all sports
initiatives across USA TODAY Sports and Gannett's more than 120
well-known local media brands. It also includes the sports
photography wire service USA TODAY Sports Images; leading high
school sports destination USA TODAY High School Sports; the social
news hub For The Win, and the hundreds of sites within USA TODAY
Sports Digital Properties such as TheBigLead.com and mixed martial
arts site MMAJunkie.com, among others. USA TODAY is owned by
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI).
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USA TODAY SportsChrissy Terrell, 703-854-5292Corporate
Communications and PR Managercaterrell@usatoday.comorGlobal
Poker IndexBecky Bowler, +44 (0) 7734861189Account Manager, IMG
Consultingbecky.bowler@img.com
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