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New Deals in Sports, News and Entertainment
New Deals in Sports, News and Entertainment.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 7704U Rightster Group PLC 05 December 2013 \n\n5 December 2013\nRightster Group plc\n(\"Rightster\", the \"Group\", or the \"Company\")\n \nRightster Announces New Deals in Sports, News and Celebrity Entertainment\n \nRightster Group plc (LSE AIM: RSTR), which provides cloud-based services that optimise the distribution and monetisation of live and on-demand video, is pleased to provide the following update on progress in the business.\n \nThe Australian Football League (\"AFL\") and Rightster have announced a four year deal for AFL's International Live Streaming Subscription Service, AFLTV, to cover the 2014, 2015 and 2016 AFL Premiership seasons. The service, which Rightster built and operates on the AFL's behalf, offers live and on-demand coverage of every AFL Premiership match to fans all over the world. During the 2013 Toyota AFL Premiership Season, AFLTV reached thousands of fans in over 216 countries, delivering over 2.5 million streams culminating in Hawthorn's comprehensive win over Fremantle in the Grand Final. The extension will also see the AFL and Rightster work closely together to deliver added value to AFL Commercial Partners and explore other digital initiatives together.\nFurthermore, the Company has added high quality content creators to its sports, entertainment, fashion and news verticals. New additions include Splash News TV, Hollywood's leading entertainment and celebrity news agency and sports lifestyle multi-platform media company RedBull Media House.\nLater today, Rightster will be live streaming the Press Association's coverage of George Osbourne's Autumn Statement from the Houses of Parliament, making it available to Rightster's Network of Publishers, including AOL.\n \nRightster's upload once, monetise everywhere model allows new content creators to share online videos worldwide, accessing a huge array of publishers at the touch of a button. The new additions to the network increase both the volume of quality content available for publishing and distribution partners to access and the audiences available to content producers - increasing opportunities for advertising revenues.\n\nCharlie Muirhead, CEO and founder of Rightster, commented:\n \n\"Digital media has transformed the way fans feed their passion for sports. Leagues, Clubs and Federa...