Evening Standard website to get Press Association videos

The Press Association has agreed a deal to provide video to the London Evening Standard‘s website www.standard.co.uk.

The deal offers voiced packages covering news, sport and entertainment from the capital as well as the rest of the UK and Ireland.

Showbiz news will be provided from the agency’s entertainment reporter in Los Angeles. It will also be providing video clips with text and pictures.

Doug Wills, Evening Standard managing editor, said: “It is brilliant that we have been able to expand our comprehensive news coverage with up-to-date video.

“As the breadth of our multimedia service broadens, the traffic continues to rise. We anticipate that this excellent material from the Press Association combining with quality journalism from our specialist writers will be hugely popular and bring even more readers to our website for the latest news.”

According to the latest ABC figures, the Evening Standard had a circulation of 427,310 for October 2009.