Rivals Wins Sponsorship Deal

Sports website network Rivals.net and ITV Digital have struck a one year, six figure sponsorship deal.

The deal will see ITV sponsoring Rivals.net’s English football message boards, site banners, and sms and email marketing. Marcus Leaver, chief executive of Rivals.net described his company’s product as “the perfect medium for ITV, who want to quickly establish themselves as the leaders in UK football broadcast coverage.”

The deal was brokered by PHD and Rival’s in-house sales team. Rivals.net’s most recent ABCE audit, in July, gave them over 1m unique users and more than 45m page impressions for the month. Jupiter MMXI rates Rivals.net as the number one UK sports site, with an average user time of 98.8 minutes.

ITV Digital: 0808 100 0101 www.itv-digital.co.uk Rivals.net: 020 8962 1300 www.rivals.net

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