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Attack Poker Becomes Official Online Gaming Partner Of Bellator
Multi-Year Alliance Begins February 28th Live On Spike NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Attack Poker and Bellator have announced a multi-year alliance that will kick off at Bellator’s Season 10 debut from Mohegan Sun Casino live on Spike TV Friday, February 28(th) . The alliance will make Attack Poker the official online gaming partner of Bellator, and will be featured throughout Bellator’s live event broadcast, as well as online and through digital campaigns. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140213/LA64640) Bellator will now feature “The Attack Of The Night” in every broadcast, which will highlight the most explosive and exciting finish or technique featured throughout the broadcast. Attack Poker will also be featured inside the Bellator cage, with logo placement on cross bar and bumper pads. “Bellator is The Toughest Tournament in Sports, and this partnership will make Attack Poker the toughest, largest, free-to-play poker tournament in the world,” says Ronald Doumani, Managing Director of EMIL Interactive Games, LLC, the parent company of Attack Poker. “Some of MMA’s top fighters and poker’s top players will converge through this partnership, elevating Attack Poker from online play to an action and entertainment lifestyle.” “Our partnership with Attack Poker speaks directly to our focus of aligning with innovative industry leaders,” said Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney. “Attack Poker’s distinctive and consumer interactive approach to free-to-play poker is what positions them as a leader in the online gaming industry and it’s what made them our top choice to align our brand with. There will be a seamless integration between Bellator and Attack Poker that will be present from the moment we kick off our monumental Season 10 February 28(th) live on Spike TV.” Attack Poker is a trademark of EMIL Interactive Games, LLC, a software development company that specializes in the design and marketing of casino games, online social games and mobile platforms in the United States and abroad. Attack Poker is the first innovative multiplayer online poker game utilizing the latest cost effective, cross-platform gaming technology capable of real-time 2-D and 3-D game play. Attack Poker brings online play to life through interaction and special events with “Team Attack Poker,” comprised of some of poker’s top players including Eli Elezra, Luke Schwartz and Billy Baxter. For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA, follow Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney @BjornRebney and check out Bellator on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BellatorMMA About Bellator MMA Bellator MMA is the world’s largest tournament based Mixed Martial Arts organization. Televised to nearly 500 Million homes worldwide in over 140 countries, Bellator’s majority owner is entertainment giant Viacom. In the United States, Bellator can be seen on Spike TV, the MMA television leader. With over 175 world-class athletes under contract, Bellator is home to many of the sport’s top mixed martial artists. Bellator’s founder & CEO, Bjorn Rebney, is an experienced fighting sports and entertainment executive with a deep commitment to the purity and integrity of the sport of MMA and its athletes. Bellator’s core philosophy is that title shots should be earned, not given. This belief gave rise to Bellator’s real sport, tournament-based format, which gives Bellator’s tournaments a true playoff feel that keeps the sport true and distances itself from the subjective side of fighting sports found in organizations that utilize a matchmaking/casting formula. Bellator MMA is comprised of an executive team that includes top industry professionals in television production, live event orchestration, fighter development/relations, venue procurement, sponsorship creation/development, international licensing, marketing, advertising, publicity and commission relations. Bellator is based in Newport Beach, California. About Attack Poker: More information about EMIL Interactive Games, LLC and Attack Poker is available online at www.attackpoker.com and www.emilgames.com. Follow Attack Poker on Twitter @AttackPoker and Facebook at facebook.com/AttackPoker. For more information about the company or software licensing opportunities available to license operators, contact Operations Manager Marie Vozikis at 702-527-7565, ext. 200. About Spike TV: Spike TV is available in 98.7 million homes and is a division of Viacom Media Networks. A unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), Viacom Media Networks is one of the world’s leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV’s Internet address is www.spike.com and for up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs, visit Spike TV’s press site at http://www.spike.com/press. Follow us on Twitter @spiketvpr for the latest in breaking news updates, behind-the-scenes information and photos. About mun2 mun2 is the leading Hispanic cable network for young millennial adults 18-34. From reality to music, on-air to digital, mun2 creates original content that resonates across a multi-screen platform. Young, vibrant and unabashedly Latino, mun2 has a distribution to over 38 million households. The network is part of Telemundo Media, a division of NBCUniversal. SOURCE Attack Poker
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A Look Inside Gogy Esparza’s ‘BikeLife’ Book
MUST HAVE FOR THE CRIB New York photographer Gogy Esparza has spent the last year following the culture of dirt bike riders in New York City. Photo-documenting his time with riders through Harlem and New York City’s five boroughs on 35-mm film, he’s collated the images into a book titled BikeLife. Revealing an intimate portrait of the people within the scene, the images preserve the essence and authenticity of the sub-culture. Look out for BikeLife to hit shelves late in 2014.
Ferrari California T makes its debut online
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Head of Twitter Music on What the Lyor Cohen 300 Deal Really Means (Updated)
Twitter wants to help the music industry unearth the next Katy Perry, whose career trajectory is matched by the rocketing number of her Twitter followers. To that end, the Silicon Valley micro-blogging service is pairing up with Lyor Cohen’s latest venture, 300 Entertainment. In the announcement, made at this year’s Midem music conference in France, the two companies talked about developing “tools” to help music industry scouts sniff out new artists and detect trends early. Twitter Names Bob Moczydlowsky Head of Music What those tools look like and how they would work weren’t entirely made clear. So we turned to Bob “Moz” Moczydlowsky, the recently appointed Head of Music at Twitter and former Senior Vice President of Product and Marketing at Topspin Media, to explain the nuts and bolts to us. The following is an edited version of the conversation. Billboard: Why is Twitter doing this? Bob Moczydlowsky: What we’re going to create, is something that everybody in the music business can benefit from… The 300 deal is the first place where we’re showing what that practically looks like. Related Articles Lyor Cohen Unveils 300 Partnership With Twitter During Midem Keynote Lyor Cohen On New Twitter Partnership: ‘We’re in the Business of Discovering Artists’ (Q&A) Lyor Cohen Unveils 300, New ‘Content Company’ with Atlantic Deal, Google Backing and Ex-Warner Brass (From the Magazine) What does that look like? We’re developing a data set specific to music. I know that sounds like a very nerdy thing. But Twitter is like a fire hose of data. There’s a ton of new information and conversations about music that we have never let of out of the building before. Some of that data have to do with timing or geography. This can valuable data for things like targeted marketing and A&R. It has the potential to help the industry figure out how to best invest in artists or how to direct their marketing campaigns. Why partner with 300 Entertainment if Twitter already has the data? Well, we don’t do A&R. We needed someone who does that and who can help us organize that data into something useful. 300 Entertainment has Travis Rosenblatt, who is a quintessential data-driven A&R guy. He spends all day looking at trending data and profiles of tastemakers and correlates that to other behaviors related to music. Twitter data can be essential to A&R. We need someone who wants to sign artists who can help us package the data and tell us if it’s valuable enough. Can you give us an example of the types of questions you’ll look to answer? The idea would be, is there a guy in Chicago who, when he tweets about artists it makes a meaningful impact on the growth or size or exposure of that artist. Is there a tastemaker or a venue or a fan, a consumer in a specific location who’s Tweets about artists are more meaningful than others? Who genuinely are predicting the future success of these artists. I’m not saying that’s in the product, I’m saying those are the types of questions that will get asked. What’s the timeline for when we can see the next phase of this project? In six months we will have the data set that anybody can license directly, that’s the raw data. In about a year, you should be able to go to a provider and say, “Hey I want access to that data and I also want it in an interface that you provide” and you know, we’ll have a third party by then who will have that data integrated. Lyor said that 300’s partnership with Twitter is “exclusive” for a year. Can you explain what that means? They’ll see the data six months before the raw data is available to everybody. At that time, anybody can license the raw data directly from us. We are investing the same things for music as we do for TV content. There will be more to come on that.
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“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” -Vince Lombardi
