FOREST, HARTLEPOOL AND CREWE TO SHARE £50K BONUS
Nottingham Forest, Hartlepool United and Crewe Alexandra are to share a £50,000 financial boost after being named winners of an incentive scheme by FL interactive (FLi) – the digital arm of The Football League.
The three clubs will receive £30,000, £13,000 and £7,000 respectively for delivering innovative and exclusive content through their Club Player service on their official website. Club Player provides premium audio, video and text content from behind-the-scenes to subscribers at FLi’s 82 clubs.
Click here to watch the winning entries
To be eligible, clubs were required to upload a minimum number of videos - five, four and three per week for Championship, League 1 and League 2 clubs respectively - between November and February.
Each club entered their best three examples to be judged by respected BBC Football League journalist, Mark Clemmit who said: “After locking myself in a darkened room for days on end and watching every second of every entry, I finally narrowed it down to Nottingham Forest, Hartlepool United and Crewe Alexandra.
“All three were well produced, informative and thoroughly entertaining – it is fantastic to see the clubs being rewarded for continuing to improve the content they provide fans.”
Representatives from FLi will present a cheque to Forest and Crewe respectively on Saturday 10 April and to Hartlepool on Tuesday 13 April.
Further Details:
Tom Harverson
External Affairs Executive
The Football League
T: 0844 826 3099 & 07760 769 250
Tharverson@football-league.co.uk
10th April 2010
