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• WPP's Sir Martin To Olympic Committee: Embrace YouTube Or Lose Your Audience

  PaidContent - 2009-10-06

  With the 2016 Olympic Games all squared away and set for Rio de Janeiro, members of the International Olympic Committee could get down to more serious business—such as how to handle the issue of online video. WPP Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell had some very simple ideas for the...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, YouTube Inc., WPP, Asset Management, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Marketing, Internet, Advertising, Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Countries, Europe, David Kaplan

• What Happened To CAA's Sports Rollup Fund? Helping IOC in Sports Media Rights Deals Instead

  PaidContent - 2009-09-14

  Exactly a year ago CAA announced its biggest bet on sports media, and formed a new unit called CAA Sports Media Venture, as a rollup venture in the sector. But besides hiring Chris Bevilacqua, co-founder of CSTV Networks, as the venture’s CEO, nothing much has happened.  The new unit...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Rafat Ali

• AP Threatens Court Fight Over Olympics Committee's Video Restrictions

  Content Next - 2008-11-24

  Better late than never? While the Beijing Summer Olympics is a distant memory at this point, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley is looking ahead and is demanding that broadband access to the games be loosened, Sports Business Journal reported. Curley directed his comments to International Olympic Committee...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, Associated Press, Video, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Broadband, Companies, NBC Universal, Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Media, TV, David Kaplan, The Walt Disney Co.

• Rogge says no deal with Beijing on Internet censorship

  - 2008-08-02

  BEIJING AFP — International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said he had never struck a deal with Beijing organisers to censor Internet sites for foreign reporters. China faced severe criticism after international media covering the August 8-24 Games discovered a range of websites were barred at the Olympic media...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Beijing, Games, International Olympic Committee, INTERNET, MARKETING, media

• Olympics: Five Iraqi athletes to go to Beijing Games

  - 2008-07-30

  BAGHDAD AFP — Iraqi officials said Wednesday that the International Olympic Committee will allow up to five Iraqi athletes to take the field in Beijing after a ban on the country was lifted at the eleventh hour. "The IOC has allowed another three Iraqi athletes to participate in the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, athlete, Games, Government, International Olympic Committee, MARKETING

• Marion Jones' relay teammates hope to cash in on appeal

  - 2008-04-24

  NEW YORK AFP — Marion Jones' American relay teammates are appealing for money to help fight the International Olympic Committee's decision to strip them of their medals, the American media reported Thursday. Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Passion Richardson, Monique Hennagan, Jearl Miles-Clark, LaTasha Colander-Clark and Andrea Anderson need to...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, International Olympic Committee, MARKETING, medal

• IOC's head, Rogge, denies signing Darfur letter appealing to China

  - 2008-02-13

  GENEVA AFP — Jacques Rogge, the head of the International Olympic Committee IOC, denied on Thursday having signed an appeal urging China to do more to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. "It's completely false," his spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau told AFP. British daily The Independent published a...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, China, International Olympic Committee, MARKETING

• Former IOC chief Samaranch hospitalised in Madrid: sources

  - 2007-12-19

  MADRID AFP — Former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch was taken to hospital in Madrid with cardio-vascular problems, Spanish national radio said Wednesday. Sources at Madrid's Clinico San Carlos confirmed that the 87-year-old Samaranch had been admitted there, but gave no further details. The radio quoted...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, International Olympic Committee, Madrid, MARKETING, radio

• TEEN STEROID USE FALLS, FEDERAL REPORT SHOWS

  - 2007-12-12

  Steroid use among U.S. teenagers has decreased by 33 percent in the past six years, according to a study released Tuesday by the White House. Less than 3 percent of students in the eighth through 12th grades questioned in the Monitoring the Future survey said they used...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, MARKETING, survey, U.S., White House

• HPCL steps back on Shell stake buy.

  - 2006-11-02

  Byline: Piyush Pandey Nov. 2--MUMBAI, India -- State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corp HPCL which was in race to acquire a substantial stake in Royal Dutch Shell's LNG terminal at Hazira has now backed out. This was after submitting a non-binding offer and completing the due...

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