LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO, June 29,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IGN Entertainment, the world's #1
media company for video game and entertainment enthusiasts,
announced today its extended collaboration with Twitter as their
official livestream broadcast partner for the 2017 Comic-Con Expo
in San Diego, California.
Coming off an incredible week of E3 Live coverage on Twitter
that saw an average of 2.6 million unique viewers per day, IGN
Entertainment and Twitter now set their sites on San Diego
Comic-Con, the country's largest entertainment conference dedicated
to the television, movie and comic industries.
IGN's coverage at SDCC 2017 will air July
19th – 22nd, live from the SDCC show
floor located within the San Diego
Convention Center, IGN's Hard Rock Hotel production space and
throughout San Diego's historic
Gaslamp District. Entertainment fans will receive up to 13 hours of
live coverage and IGN's livestream will be available worldwide to
Twitter's logged-in and logged-out audience on Twitter and
connected devices.
IGN Live from SDCC will be hosted and produced by IGN. Coverage
will feature interviews from ABC, AMC, DC, Lionsgate, Marvel,
Netflix, Starz, TBS and more, including live pre- and post-show
commentary from IGN hosts and special guests. IGN Live will also
include trailers, behind the scenes footage, live interviews from
the industry's biggest television and motion picture actors and
producers, the very best of entertainment cosplay, and much
more.
Fans will also receive live all-access reports direct from the
show floor, Petco Park and The New Children's Museum. IGN Live from
SDCC will integrate live Twitter conversations utilizing Twitter
polls and questions from the Twitter audience, providing the
opportunity to connect and participate within SDCC from anywhere in
the world.
"Coming off the heels of live streaming original E3 content, we
are thrilled to expand our live stream collaboration with IGN,"
said Anthony Noto, COO at Twitter.
"This time we'll bring IGN's live coverage of Comic-Con to our
highly passionate comedy and entertainment fans alongside the
real-time conversation on Twitter."
"After seeing the massive success of IGN's first partnership
with Twitter from E3, it was an easy decision to team up again for
another week of livestream coverage," said Wade Beckett, CPO and SVP of Video at IGN. "IGN
is the first place fans head to find breaking movie, TV, and comics
news and Twitter is the place they talk about it. It's a great
partnership for the fans."
The live stream will be available globally at
comiccon.twitter.com and on @IGN.
IGN Live from SDCC will also include opportunities for
advertisers, including packages with television style mid-roll
spots, combined with original clips produced by IGN, available for
sponsorship and promotion on Twitter.
About IGN Entertainment
IGN Entertainment is the
leading Internet media company focused on the video game and
entertainment enthusiast markets. IGN reaches more than 148 million
monthly users and is followed by more than 10 million subscribers
on YouTube and 25 million users on social platforms. IGN also
publishes daily content on Snapchat Discover. Established in 1996,
IGN is operated by digital media company Ziff Davis, LLC, a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc.
IGN is headquartered in San
Francisco, with offices in Los
Angeles, New York,
Sydney and London. IGN content is localized in 25
languages and 114 countries and hosted on websites and native
applications on mobile, connected TV, and Xbox and PlayStation
platforms. For more information, visit www.IGN.com and follow @IGN
on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
About Twitter
Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is what's
happening and what people are talking about, all around the world.
From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, from
big events to everyday interests. If it's happening anywhere, it's
happening first on Twitter. Twitter is where the full story unfolds
with all the live commentary and where live events come to life
unlike anywhere else. Twitter is available in more than 40
languages around the world. The service can be accessed at
twitter.com, on a variety of mobile devices and via SMS. For more
information, visit about.twitter.com or follow @twitter. For
information on how to download the Twitter and Periscope apps,
visit twitter.com/download and periscope.tv.
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