The Multi-event Partnership Will Launch with the unique livestream of the 2017 AMD British Academy Britannia Awards
Los Angeles, October 3, 2017: The British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA Los Angeles) introduced at this time a multi occasion reside streaming partnership with the world’s main online game and leisure information and media firm, IGN Leisure. The partnership will launch October 27, 2017 when IGN will completely livestream to viewers throughout the globe the 2017 AMD British Academy Britannia Awards in Los Angeles.
IGN’s protection will start at 7:30pm PT, with British comic Jack Whitehall returning to host the occasion for a second time. The 2017 AMD British Academy Britannia Awards will honor Matt Damon with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Movie introduced by Newegg, Dick Van Dyke, with the Britannia Award for Excellence in Tv introduced by Swarovski, Ava DuVernay, with the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing introduced by The GREAT Britain Marketing campaign, Claire Foy, with the Britannia Award for British Artist of the 12 months introduced by Burberry, and Kenneth Branagh, with the Albert R. Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Leisure. The occasion’s title sponsor is AMD and the occasion introduced by American Airways and Jaguar Land Rover.
Past the Britannia Awards IGN will livestream different iconic BAFTA Los Angeles occasions together with the annual BAFTA Tea Occasion held every January, and the annual BAFTA TV Tea within the fall, the BAFTA Scholar Movie Awards, and year-round BAFTA academic periods.
By partnering with IGN, BAFTA Los Angeles will have the ability to convey its leisure, schooling, and philanthropic initiatives to a fair bigger viewers, tapping in to IGN’s 156 million month-to-month customers and leveraging IGN’s experience producing livestream’s for tentpole occasions.
“BAFTA Los Angeles is delighted to launch its new partnership with IGN Leisure by completely reside streaming this yr’s AMD British Academy Britannia Awards to a world viewers,” stated Karl Stewart, BAFTA Los Angeles Board Member who created the partnership. “Our year-round collaboration will allow BAFTA Los Angeles to make the most of IGN’s a number of channels to open up our academic periods, new expertise initiatives {and professional} growth programming throughout Movie, Video games and Tv to new and wider audiences.”
“We’re excited to associate with such a prestigious group as BAFTA Los Angeles and assist help the development of excellence in movie and tv,” stated Peer Schneider, Govt Vice President and Chief Content material Officer at IGN Leisure. “Our viewers is hungry for extra, high quality leisure content material and IGN is dedicated to delivering programming wherever they might be in search of it, from internet to app to social community.”
IGN will stream the 2017 AMD British Academy Britannia Awards throughout all its featured platforms, together with IGN.com, Fb, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Apple TV, Roku, PS4, Xbox One, PlutoTV, Wurl TV Community and IGN’s cellular apps on iOS and Android. The BAFTA-IGN partnership consists of alternatives for advertisers, together with packages with tv model mid-roll spots, mixed with authentic clips produced by IGN, can be found for sponsorship and promotion.
Keep present on all of the Britannias happenings by following IGN and BAFTA Los Angeles on Twitter and Fb, utilizing the hashtag #Britannias.
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Elyse Weissman at SLATE PR
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Kiersten Slader at IGN Leisure
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About BAFTA
The British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts (BAFTA) is a world-leading unbiased arts charity that brings the perfect work in movie, video games and tv to public consideration and helps the expansion of inventive expertise within the UK and internationally. Via its Awards ceremonies and year-round programme of studying occasions and initiatives – which incorporates workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures and mentoring schemes within the UK, USA and Asia – BAFTA identifies and celebrates excellence, discovers, conjures up and nurtures new expertise, and permits studying and inventive collaboration. For recommendation and inspiration from the most effective inventive minds in working in movie, video games and tv, go to www.bafta.org/guru. For extra, go to www.bafta.org.
BAFTA Los Angeles serves as a bridge between the Hollywood and British manufacturing and leisure enterprise communities. Its dedication to skilled and group schooling is on the coronary heart of all exercise, together with an inner-city outreach programme, screenings, seminars, Behind Closed Doorways sequence, Q&As, scholarships for British college students learning within the US, and a Heritage Archive venture, which preserves in-depth interviews with the business’s main skills for future generations. BAFTA Los Angeles celebrates and promotes excellence by way of its annual Britannia Awards, Awards Season Movie and Tv Tea Events and the Scholar Movie Awards. www.bafta.org/losangeles
About IGN Leisure
IGN Leisure is the main Web media firm targeted on the online game and leisure fanatic markets. IGN reaches greater than 156 million month-to-month customers and is adopted by greater than 11 million subscribers on YouTube and 28 million customers on social platforms. IGN additionally publishes every day content material on Snapchat Uncover. Established in 1996, IGN is operated by digital media firm Ziff Davis, LLC, a subsidiary of j2 International, Inc. IGN is headquartered in San Francisco, with places of work in Los Angeles, New York, Sydney and London. IGN content material is localized in 25 languages and 114 nations and hosted on web sites and native purposes on cellular, related TV, and Xbox and PlayStation platforms. For extra data, go to www.IGN.com and observe @IGN on Twitter, Fb, and YouTube.
