Testimonials

TESTIMONIALS

What they said about their SPORTEL Experience!

 

ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP, Mr Kevin CHANG, Senior Director, Media & Business Development, Asia
SPORTEL is a great place to meet broadcasters and exchange stories with other rights holders to get a feel for the market, as we plan our distribution going forward internationally. Great contacts. See you next year, definitely!
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  DELTATRE, Mr Carlo LISA, Director of Sales & Business Development
Definitely, SPORTEL is a great occasion to meet potential customers, existing customers, to maintain the relationships. It’s one of those places where everybody meets once a year, and it’s a unique opportunity to find old friends and get new friends. Very good contacts
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  LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB, Mr Ian AYRE, Commercial Director
It’s the most important gathering of the people that we need to talk to, and it’s very important for us to be here and to showcase our products and to meet with everybody in one place. We are looking for broadcasters, online operators, IPTV, mobile operators which sell our content and our business, this is a fantastic place for us to do that. Our brand is famous, and our football club is famous. We want to make our TV Channel famous, so it’s important to meet with important broadcasters and all the platforms. There’s no better place to do it than Sportel. Full interview
  GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS - RING TV, Mr Bruce BINKOW, Chief Marketing Officer
It’s a great place to meet everybody in one place. Everybody’s here, all the buyers are in one place, it’s very efficient. (…) We have great contacts here!
  INFRONT SPORTS & MEDIA AG, Mr Jorg POLZER, Associate Director, Corp. Communication & PR
We think it’s once again this year a great opportunity to meet all the broadcasters and partners from all across the world. We consider it is a great networking opportunity; it’s really the place to be. For us, every year, this is THE exhibition where we meet most of our partners from all across the world, both the rights holders but also the broadcasters.
  CONCACAF, Ms Lauri BLAIRE SCHULMAN, Production Executive
Sportel is a fantastic place to reach people from all over the world and meet them and show them our product. We’ve had fantastic contacts, good results, and people from all over, every continent and it’s why we had very good luck at Sportel, even on the first day. It has been very busy! Full interview
  BLOGGYSPORT, Mr Daniel BANNET, General Manager
Our company was established last year (…): it’s important for us to let the market knows that we exist and to let them know the potential of our company. Full interview
  INFRONT SPORTS & MEDIA AG, Mr Bruno MARTY, Executive Director, Winter Sports
A 4-year renewal of your contract with the bobsleigh federation signed here in Sportel: I am very lucky that we were able to do this in a great place, great venue. Memorable! It’s not only an extension, it’s also an increase of the business relationship. It’s always great to be here!
  LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB, Mr Andrew ROBINSON, Head of Digital Media & Technology
We are here at Sportel for two reasons essentially: we’re to talk to current and future broadcasters about how we work with them and what they want from our services, what they like about our services, what they’d like us to do differently, and also here crucially to support our new digital video providers STREAM UK as well.
  STREAM UK, Mr Duncan BURBIDGE, CEO
We have had maybe 15 meetings with high quality people, and that’s exactly what we want from an event! I think we will be back next year for sure!
  WORLD KARATE FEDERATION, Ms Irene ANTOLI CANDELA, Secretary
Definitely worthwhile coming! We had meetings all day long, basically back to back. It’s a good way to come here, everybody’s here, just to have eye to eye contact with people that you email with, so, it’s a great opportunity! Back next year, for sure!
  TRIBOL, Mr Martin KONIG, President
You’ve got to be here to talk to all these people… to become global. This is the place to be! For sure, next year in Rio, we will be there!
  AMISCO, Mr Antoine DAVID, Founder & Managing Director
We are very pleased to be here, we have had fantastic meetings, met very interesting people.
  YOUTUBE, Mr Jeff NATHENSON, Strategic Partner Dvpt Manager, YouTube EMEA
SPORTEL is one of those rare conferences where everyone is here but it’s intimate enough, where you actually can have some very good high quality conversations. Full interview
VON APPEN / JENS LEGAL, Mr Andreas JENS, Lawyer
Congratulations to a fantastic SPORTEL 2011. For us it was a great success and we are looking forward to attend next year..... thanks a lot and good luck for Rio 2012!
LAUREUS, Mr Neil MALLARD, Television News Consultant
The 2011 SPORTEL was possibly one of the most productive that I have ever attended. I look forward to joining you again in 2012.
BOULDER CREEK INTERNATIONAL, Mr Matt JESCHENLNIK, Managing Director
I have been here since 2005, and come every single year, watched it grow, from year to year! Here we are: a new level, lots of new stands, it just keep growing! It really does! (…) Every year, more people attend, and you get to know more people within Sportel. It’s a big family, a lot of people, you tend to work your way through, and every year you tend to meet 15 / 20 new faces that you’ve seen many times walking around, but now you shake their hand exchange the cards and they are new clients! It works and we will definitively be back!
DENTSU INC., Mr Daejong KIM, Assistant Project Manager
It’s very very important to meet our clients here, and have discussions, … Have a lot of good contacts, good meetings, I have enjoyed myself here (good weather!) We will definitely be coming to Rio!
GRASS VALLEY, Mr Christophe ALMERAS, Sales Account Manager
That’s our first time here in Sportel, and we are very happy to be here, to show our different solutions we have around sport and live production in general. (….) Sportel is for us a good place to show us, to be sure sport producers, federations and so on, they know us.
DFL SPORTS ENTERPRISES GMBH, Mr Jorg DAUBITZER, Managing Director
It’s an easy opportunity to meet a lot of people from all over the world, year by year, that’s a quite fantastic situation. It’s usually the place to make opportunities for contracts. (…) It’s of course in our plans to come to Sportel as well as to Rio! For this reason we are a year by year guest at this event. Full interview
EUROSPORT, Mr Julien BERGEAUD, Director of Broadcasting and Programmes
Indeed, Sportel is a very unique « proposition » for us, every year we come with a strong delegation: we have people who acquire rights, people who sell rights, people from the programming side. This is an opportunity we cannot miss every year. You just need 5 minutes to have a lot of information, quick conversations at the meeting point but also quick conversations after the exhibition time. We meet so many different people: it’s a fantastic opportunity to be in Sportel!