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Palm Beach Gardens, FL, September 28, 2015 – OneUp Sports (“OneUp”), the world’s leading mobile sports platform, announced today the acquisition of CineSport, a leading sports digital video network. The merger integrates the CineSport video platform and programming services into OneUp’s innovative team and league fan engagement platforms.
CineSport’s video programming and production services will now be available thru OneUp’s mobile network. CineSport will add mobile and app tools to the suite of services they provide to newspaper and blog sites that include the Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Hearst, MSN and AOL. The CineSport technology will provide OneUp’s team app platform with another core revenue generating feature while delivering a valuable digital video platform to fans that utilize OneUp’s affiliate and league products.
OneUp has already successfully integrated its proprietary team app platform with professional franchises including the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association; Washington Redskins of the National Football League; and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. In addition, exclusive licensing partnerships have been established with professional sports governing bodies that include the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR and PGA Tour to offer OneUp live-play, social sports, 2nd screen game experience called “Connect”.
“We are excited to integrate the digital video technology that Gregg Winik and CineSport have developed into the growing array of OneUp platforms,” said Daren Trousdell, CEO of OneUp Sports. “I am confident that this acquisition will provide our advertisers a large and targeted digital audience available all on one platform.”
“This arrangement is the culmination of CineSport’s evolution to a mobile first approach and now we have an array of new mobile products to offer our publishers,“ said Gregg Winik, Founder and CEO of CineSport. “This transaction provides immediate scale; scale of services for our partners and scale of audience for our advertisers.”
About OneUp Sports
OneUp Sports offers live-action, edge of your seat, split-second decision making mobile sports platforms that offer a deeper and more engaging live-sports experience. OneUp’s platforms use the power of mobile and social technology, live sports data and content to bring professional sports teams, fans and friends together like never before. Visit www.oneupsports.com and on twitter at @oneupgames_ .
About CineSport
CineSport is an innovative digital video platform and studio that offers sports news, features and analysis through online, mobile, social and connected TV applications. Through VaMP, its cloud based proprietary video platform, CineSport is syndicated to over 700 publishers including The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News, Atlanta Journal Constitution, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Microsoft and AOL. In 2014, CineSport averaged 8 million monthly unique viewers (comScore Video Metrix).
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