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CALL FOR ENTRIES
The 2nd Annual Cynopsis Short Form Video Festival
The Cynopsis Short Form Video Festival is searching for the most cutting-edge creatives from individuals and teams worldwide, including: production companies/studios, producers, networks, composers, lyricists, animators, video game developers/producers, website developers, mobile & app developers/producers, marketing companies, PR firms and more . Submissions will be judged by a panel of industry experts and finalists will be announced in mid-November.
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SPONSORSHIP & PROMOTION
Schick Hydro announced “The Man I Am” advertising campaign with the Cavaliers Kevin Love and the Movember Foundation to Promote Healthy Masculinity. The brand to becomes the Official Men’s Shaving Sponsor of Movember and will create a Webisode Series Hosted Love, a boost for men’s health awareness throughout the month of November.
New Amsterdam Vodka and the National Hockey League announced a multiyear U.S. partnership naming New Amsterdam Vodka the Official Vodka of the NHL, securing its place as the first-ever vodka brand to be a League sponsor. New Amsterdam Vodka will be featured in NHL programming throughout the regular season and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as well as during the league’s premier events, including the NHL Winter Classic, NHL Stadium Series and NHL All-Star Game.
Aaron Judge has had the best-selling Major League Baseball jersey for the second year in a row despite being limited to 110 games with a wrist injury. The list is based on sales on MLB.com. The New York Yankees slugger was followed by Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, while Chicago Cubs infielder Javy Baez, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw and Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts rounded out the top five.
DIGITAL AND STREAMING
Outdoor Sportsman Group expanded its exclusive, global, subscription-based, streaming service MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) with its launch on streaming platforms Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV. The launch of the MOTV app on Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV follows its launch on ROKU during the summer.
CBS Sports Fantasy launched a personalized fantasy football “General Manager” for the Google Assistant, marking a first-of-its-kind virtual assistant integration for fantasy sports. By talking to the Google Assistant, anyone who plays CBS Sports Fantasy Football can now get personalized, actionable guidance on which players to start, pick up or trade. The Assistant will also provide CBS Sports players with real-time score and injury updates specific to their team.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Powered by Everlast is averaging nearly 400,000 views per event to date during its second season. The free and interactive Facebook series has now topped the two million views plateau, having served 2,214,461 fight fans since its inception in May of 2017.
FloSports announced a partnership with Triple Crown Sports, to provide live and on-demand coverage of multiple TCS events in youth fastpitch and college softball on FloSoftball.com, as well as men’s and women’s college basketball on FloHoops.com.
eSPORTS
The Katowice, Poland city council is extending its ties with IEM, voting to “co-organize and promote” the world championship taking place at the huge IEM Katowice event operated by ESL. The city’s current deal with ESL expires after its 2019 show, causing the city to approve about $3.5 million to help promote the event up to 2023 with the 2018 action hosting 169,000 spectators. Next year will now see IEM Katowice serve as the 14th Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major.
Now that ESL One New York is wrapped up, Modern Times Group reportedly upped its take in Turtle Entertainment and its ESL division, increasing its investment from 74% to 82.48%, according to TEO.
ROSTER MOVES
Jemele Hill, who left ESPN last month after her controversial political tweets resulted in two suspensions, will be joining The Atlantic as a staff writer beginning this month covering a variety of topics both for print and digital.
THE MAIN EVENT
Rockies at Cubs tomorrow in NL Wild Card at 8 PM on ESPN.
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ON THIS DAY in 1978: the NY Yankees win their 3rd straight AL East title, beating Boston Red Sox, 5-4 in a dramatic single playoff game; Ron Guidry wins his 25 the game aided by Bucky Dent’s 3-run homer
In the Know: The end of the MLB season produced two tiebreaking matchups. Who won the first ever MLB tiebreaking series in 1946? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company and city.)
Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: The Mets honored David Wright amid much fanfare last weekend. Who was the first number the team ever retired? Answer: Casey Stengel Congrats: Mark Stulberger, Stully’s Broadcasting School, Rich Dubroff BaltimoreBaseball.com, Randy Ingram WISH/WNDY-TV, Ken White, Kwtv, Andy Pittman TAMU, Rick Rosenfelt New York Red Bulls/Harrison, NJ, Eric Wright D S Simon Media, David Westberg SAG AFTRA, Synda Kollman, Charter Marketing Group, Joe Schreiber 3 Penny Films, Matt Sautter WideOrbit, Mike May PHIT America, Larry Hutchings Nipomo CA, Tom Moore, Kalt Productions, Ron Salcedo, Zimmerman/Nashville, and Andrew Rizzi, Showtime
Later – Chris
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