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Sportsbeat reporter joins the pack, interviewing gold medallist Victoria Pendleton at the Beijing Olympics.

Sportsbeat is one of the UK's most trusted suppliers of sports news content - providing over 12,000 stories a year to over 100 newspaper titles from our newsrooms in London and Manchester.
We supply all our subscribers and clients with bespoke content, written to house style and tailored to specific regions. Increasingly more of our output is supplied in the form of ready for press panels and pages.
Every weekend we supply in access of 250 football and rugby match reports and over 50 pages to our newspaper network, you'll also find our reporters providing tailored coverage direct from major events, such as the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, Rugby World Cup and World Athletics Championships.
All editorial is independent of any sponsorship or brand but a unique relationship with our newspaper clients mean we can provide sponsors with high impact exposure opportunities on a range of our content.
For example, we ensure all our newspapers include your logo and an agreed strapline adjacent to the articles we supply.
Whether you're looking to gain an association with an event, maximise an existing sponsorship, promote your brand or increase sales, sponsored copy provides a cost effective solution with high EAV's to underline your return on investment.
With a combined regional press readership of around 40 million, sponsored copy provides the ultimate marketing and PR tool.
You can track coverage as it appears via our online media reports section and a full media report - with valuation - can be provided on conclusion of any activity.

Case Study - EMIRATES/RUGBY WORLD CUP 2007
Sportsbeat coverage of the 2007 Rugby World Cup was presented in all the titles we serve in association with Emirates, the official airline of the tournament and one of its top tier sponsors.
Match reports, previews and stats boxes were supplied to over 20 titles, reaching over 40 million readers.
In addition to content supplied by our team of reporters in France, England World Cup winner Danny Grewcock provided a twice-weekly column to our papers throughout the tournament, which was branded with the official tournament/Emirates logo.
Much of this content was provided page ready by our production department meaning client editors simply dropped our supplied artwork into their pages.
Click here to see Danny Grewcock's preview of the England v South Africa final - provided to all our titles on the eve of the match.

Case Study - NORWICH UNION/BRITISH ATHLETICS
Since 2006, Norwich Union, via Hill and Knowlton and latterly MEC Sponsorship, use Sportsbeat's branded copy service to reinforce their £52m sponsorship of UK Athletics.
They have developed their own artwork to reinforce their key message 'Preparing Champions' which runs alongside Sportsbeat's athletics editorial from national to international championships - in regional and local press titles.
See sample coverage from the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Valencia - published in client titles, the Northern Echo, Birmingham Mail and Gloucester Echo.
"We have used Sportsbeat on several occasions this year to amplify key client messages through regional titles. As a complement to our own existing PR effort, they provide an excellent service and deliver impressive results." - Stuart Wareman, MEC Sponsorship.

Case Study - YAKULT/WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Sportsbeat coverage from the 2007 World Swimming Championships in Melbourne was provided in association with Yakult, an official partner of swimming's world governing body FINA.
Coverage was tailored to each of our regional newspaper clients while six-times world champion Mark Foster provided a detail swimmer by swimmer preview which was sent on the eve of the championships.
More than 20 daily titles subscribed to the service. Click here to see a sample of the coverage in the Leicester Mercury.

Case Study - BRITISH EUROSPORT/2006 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
British Eurosport were looking to leverage their exhaustive Winter Olympic in UK press titles. All our coverage was branded with the Eurosport logo to reinforce their Official Broadcaster status. The event-specific coverage reached over five million readers.
Click here to see a sample of the coverage in the Birmingham Sunday Mercury.
"Our work with Sportsbeat provided an excellent way for the channel to promote our extensive coverage. By sponsoring Sportsbeat's specific Winter Olympic copy with our attached branding we were able to communicate our position across the UK regional press throughout the Games." - Matt Horler, Eurosport

Case Study - LG ELECTRONICS/ALLIANZ/2006 FIFA WORLD CUP
LG Electronics wanted to associated themselves with the FIFA World Cup in Germany despite not being a member of the official sponsor 'family'. Via branded editorial - including celebrity columns, blogs and general coverage from our reporting team - Sportsbeat achieved this in a range of titles.
"Sportsbeat produced some great results at the World Cup. Their knowledge and relationship with the regional media is unsurpassed and allows results to be achieved in much less time and with a lot less effort than it would have taken ourselves." - James Maxton, Ketchum Public Relations

Other clients for this service have included: HEAD (Tennis coverage), Speedo (World Short Course Swimming Championships), Deuchars IPA (Cricket World Cup), Ralph Lauren (Wimbledon), National Lottery (Six Nations/British Lions Tour), Clydesdale Bank (Commonwealth Games), British Eurosport (2006 Olympic Winter Games), VC Bet (Ashes Tour cricket)