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1Business Overview Presentation 07/05/03
- Mike Flynn C.E.O.
- Rob Salmon Director of Marketing
2Our Business
- Overview
- 4thegame.com the worlds largest dedicated
English Premier League Competition website, with
49 million page impressions a month - Megavortal our proprietary sports software
framework, designed to update a sports fan with
anything and everything they want to know about
their sport, wherever it happens across the
globe. Its showcase is Megasoccer.com - Sports Marketing Our people are grounded in
marketing skills, eliminating the need for
outside marketing consultants and since May 2002
have acted as consultants in their own right to
major brand owners - Finally, our credibility within the Sports world
is further boosted by hosting and providing web
content for two of English footballs main
influencing bodies League Managers and Football
Writers and we have also designed player
websites for Joe Cole and Michael Carrick
(England England U21 players)
3Driving up revenues, Driving down cost
- Revenues increased by 206 from 2001 (447k
2002 146k 2001) - Costs reduced by 27 from ave 2001 to Q1 2003
- 4thegame site traffic 157 growth since launch in
Dec 01 - Unique Visitors now 1.47 million
- Advertising revenue CPM rising from 1 (2001) to
25 (2003) - Betting Partnership established, with minimum
monthly guarantee - Sports Marketing services formally launched May
2002
44thegame.com past present and future
54thegame.com What it offers
- Official Accreditation from Marketing agreement
with Barclaycard - 4thegame.com offers unrivalled accessibility to
everything that is the Barclaycard Premiership - Barclaycard Football Club
- Latest news
- Interviews
- Columnists
- Exclusive manager content
- Video news
- Live scores
- SMS service
- Mobile Devices
- Match Previews
- Match Reports
- Cup Competitions
- Player Profiles
- Statistics
- Competitions
- Archives
64thegame.com - From strength to strength
74thegame.com Measures of success
- The biggest single English Football website on
the World Wide Web - Unique visitor number of over 1.47 million (Feb.
2003 Webtrends) - 4thegame.com was the fifth largest sports website
in Campaign Sports Website watch (Jan 2003) - 4thegame.com is ranked first in the Search Engine
rankings of Google premiership / premier league
/ English premier league - 4thegame is accessed by users from 166 countries
- Shortlisted U.K. Sports Website of the Year 2002
2003 - The average 4thegame.com user (uk)
- male (77)
- aged 32
- earns c35,000 p.a.
- full time employment (69)
- social class ABC1 (65).
- Students (11)
84thegame.com Significant commercial value
- The scale and status of 4thegame.com generates
significant commercial value for those wishing to
reach followers of the Premiership, its teams and
players - Its Core revenue generators are
- Advertising
- Global Online advertising forecast to grow at a
Compound rate
of 21 over the next five years - Banner ads cpms growing.
- New ad platforms much higher cpms.
- More relevant ads eg Ford, Pepsi and Vodafone
- Betting
- Strong brand partnered - Ladbrokes.
- Ladbrokes online betting turnover growing at
over 250 - Football - 50 of Ladbrokes online betting
revenue and growing. - Min Monthly guarantee and share of revenue
- New revenue generators are
- Sponsorship
- Primary partnership provides Official
accreditation, marketing, merchandise and
traffic value - Associate Sponsorships within site eg Video,
Results etc - Content Sale
- SMS results and information service
- Provision to other media platforms
94thegame.com Critical Goals Significant
prospects
- Build 4thegame user base
- Increase Unique visitor numbers, driving Page
Views and Ad potential - Increase interactive users Club membership
driving consumer spend via site up Betting, SMS,
Barclaycards, Merchandise - Firmly establish 4thegame.com
- As the pre-eminent UK Football website
- A top 5 World Single Sport website
- Becoming a must buy media platform for all
major sports brands
10Mega Vortals the shape of things to come
11Megasoccer.com What it represents
- The technology of Fast Search Transfer has been
adapted for bespoke use by FWM as a business to
business model. - 90 Technology 10 FWM editorial
- It is available to any company to communicate
more effectively with the supporters of the sport
in which they supply, partner or sponsor - The showcase for the concept is the football
Vortal Megasoccer.com using 4thegame as its
springboard - FWM plan to offer a series of Vortals, either
focussing on a particular sport or on a
particular market/geography within the sport (eg
US kids who play soccer)
12Megasoccer.com What it offers
- Megasoccer is an Internet Vortal dedicated to
world football it aims to deliver the world of
soccer on one site - It carries football information on 59 countries
and 91 leagues / competitions - Editorial Features/Columnists
- Photo Galleries
- Video News
- Editorial/Community Polls
- Community Forum
- Community/Editorial Newsletter
- Dynamic News Links
- Related Links
- Features a dedicated soccer search engine which
contains circa 440,000 urls - Accessed by users from 149 different countries
- Listed first in most popular soccer sites in
Yahoo.com directory
13MegaVortals Megasoccer.com Significant
commercial potential
- Revenue will be obtained from licensing
managing all or part of the Mega technology
platform (B2B) - We will actively target leading sports brands,
associations and sponsors with an extremely cost
effective web solution - And. as a stand alone website, Megasoccer.com
has a number of revenue opportunities - Advertising Sponsorship
- Betting partnership
- Sale of content through another medium i.e. via
SMS or content sales to a third party media
company
Players in the sports industry that do not form
partnerships with technology companies or embrace
new technology will be left behind. Rachael
Church (Managing Director,sports research and
consulting company ArkSports Limited )
14Sports Marketing online and offline
15Passionate about the game and its value
Mike Sarah
Rob Michele
Joseph
- The sports marketing team are grounded in sport
and include - Mike Flynn CEO of FWM and previously Director
of Sponsorship at Bass responsible for Carlings
award winning sponsorship of the FA Premier
League and the Worthington Cup amongst others. - Rob Salmon (Director of Marketing) Rob was the
Sponsorship Manager for the FA Carling
Premiership and also enjoyed a spell as Sports
Editor at AOL UK. - Michele Singh (Account Manager) Michele has
worked at Disneys Soccernet, Eurosport and the
BBC on events including World Cup 98 and Euro
2000. - Sarah Spencer (Account Manager) Football is in
Sarahs blood prior to FWM Sarah worked with the
English FA, Middlesborough FC and Leeds United
FC. - Joseph Beale (Account Executive) Joseph works
with clients such as allsports and Carling.
16Sports marketing Saving cost / generating
revenue / opening doors
- First and foremost the Sports Marketing Team are
the marketing force behind 4thegame.com and
Megasoccer.com, maximising awareness and driving
traffic - saving the cost of outside consultants - Secondly, their abilities have been recognised by
other Sports and Sponsorship brand owners. As
such FWM obtain an additional revenue for a range
of online and offline marketing services - Sponsorship consultancy for Western Union
- Public Relations activity for allsports
- Search engine marketing for Manchester United and
Grolsch - Various online marketing services for Barclaycard
and Carling - Finally, the team are in regular contact with a
wide range of senior marketing personnel (budget
holders) and as such, are well placed to
communicate the incredible scale and reach of
FWMs online assets 4thegame.com and Mega Vortal
products
17In summary
- Internet will be an ever more compelling
communication medium for a wide variety of
product and service providers moving from spoke
to hub in marketing strategies - The generalist sports site offering width without
depth will continue to fade and die specialist
sites such as 4thegame.com that are passionate
about their niche, and Vortals offering real
depth such as Megasoccer.com will flourish - FWM is a sport specialist in a unique position
- We offer B2C media and services through
4thegame.com all revenue platforms growing - We offer B2B services through Mega Vortals and
Marketing Services Investors in Sport need
other skill sets (that we have), to maximise
their return - We have a fast growing reputation within the UK
Sports Industry We have glowing references
from UK Sports Industry - Out of the Internet Doom and perfectly placed
to benefit in the real new world - Our own websites
- Our clients, and potential clients website
strategies. - Other Investors in Sport through PR and
consultancy