Almost
2 million Freecaster.tv viewers add to FIM Motocross World Championship
audience
 After
the first 11 Grand Prix’s of the 2009 FIM Motocross World Championship,
the partnership in between Youthstream and Freecaster.tv has reached the
tally of 1.9 million views through the free of charge online broadcasting of
the events which has started this year.
From a
total amount of 895.909 spectators registered in the first five Grand
Prix’s, the number has now increased to 1.9 million as more than one
million spectators have watched the six rounds following the Portuguese GP,
round five of the series. With four Grand Prix’s and the Red Bull
FIM Motocross of Nations remaining, a further audience boost is expected.
At only their first year of
cooperation in the online broadcasting of the FIM Motocross World
Championship (live and delayed), Youthstream and Freecaster.tv have already
reached important targets which are being confirmed by the statistics.
This cooperation is
successfully combining the advantages of the internet, one of the main media
of the modern world providing the entire globe with information, with the
advantages of the “free of charge” philosophy which Youthstream and
Freecaster.tv have introduced in the FIM Motocross World Championship TV
broadcasting this year. An immense virtual audience is offered an appealing
free of charge coverage of the most exciting and best organized Motocross
series in the World; furthermore Freecaster.tv includes a wide range of
video contents and gives the possibility to the online media to embed the
Freecaster.tv player (that they can access from http://freecaster.tv/live)
in their pages, gaining a further audience boost.
Freecaster.tv is currently
working hard to offer the global Internet coverage of the Red Bull FIM
Motocross of Nations 2009 and will be working closely together with its
media partners worldwide to offer a yet unmatched coverage of the biggest
Motocross event in the world.
The Freecaster.tv player is
also available on www.MotocrossMX1.com
and www.SuperMotoS1.com
as the broadcast series are the following: MX1, MX2, MX3 (delayed only), WMX,
S1, S2.
Giuseppe Luongo, President of
Youthstream said: “This is Youthstream’s answer to all the people who
talk negatively about money, the crisis, etc. We are very proud to be
offering fans one of the greatest shows and sport on earth for free of
charge. 1.9 million viewers at this moment of the Championship is over
any optimistic prevision we had. The work that the Youthstream
television department and Freecaster.tv are doing is outstanding and the
interest of the fans throughout the World Championship is extremely high.
We are the only Championship in the world where fans can follow from
anywhere on the planet live for free of charge. To arrive at this
stage it was never easy because the role of the promoter is sometimes to
take decisions for the good of the entire World Championship and for all the
fans and participants, but sometimes these decisions touch some small
gardens and for sure they are unhappy and they try to stop the decis ion
from going on, but as I said before it is imperative to see the overall
picture and only in this way can we reach results like this which are
absolutely fantastic for fans, and also for riders, teams, manufacturers,
sponsors and organizers. So now the goal is to reach 3 million!”
Raymond
Dulieu, founder of Freecaster.tv, continued: “In one year Freecaster.tv
has attracted a growing audience and contributed to increasing the
popularity of the MX championships. I am looking forward now to seeing every
rider and team take advantage of our coverage by embedding our player on
their sites and social network profiles. Furthermore, at Freecaster.tv we
are working hard to offer an exceptional and unmatched coverage of the Red
Bull FIM Motocross of Nations. So, stay tuned to Freecaster.tv the source
for the best live action sports on the web.”
Dr. Wolfgang Srb, FIM/CMS
President, stated: “The figures are simply stunning. Nobody could even
dream of such a sensational success in this short period. The FIM MX1/2
Motocross World Championship is unchallenged the number one offroad series
in the world. Why? The answer is quite simple: the best riders on the best
bikes on the best circuits, all promoted by Youthstream. Congratulations to
all who worked so hard to achieve this result!”
This weekend on Freecaster.tv
the FIM Motocross Grand Prix of Belgium will be broadcast live from Lommel
\\Mikkel
29/7 2009
Photo/text: Youthstream
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