Trinity Mirror Regionals to receive Entertainment Listings from Global DataPoint
Newspapers such as the Liverpool Echo, Birmingham Post and Newcastle’s Evening Gazette will soon be able to publish the most comprehensive events listings for their regions. All 200 newspapers and more than 300 companion newspaper websites, ultra-local sites such as Liverpool.com from the Trinity Mirror Regionals division will be supplied Global DataPoint’s feed of events data.
Global DataPoint will supply content on cinema times, theatre productions, art and museum exhibitions as well as gig and club listings. Tourist attractions, festivals and special events for families will be included in the data feed. Trinity Mirror will move from their previous supplier of entertainment listings PA Entertainment to Global DataPoint after a detailed evaluation of the degree of depth and breadth of events coverage for all regions of the UK for this integral element of their market leading service.
Dominic Taylor, Managing Director of Global DataPoint said “Working with Trinity Mirror Regionals will be a fantastic way to supply events listings content to millions of readers and web users across the UK. Global DataPoint is delighted to be chosen as the preferred supplier for this prestigious newspaper group.”
About Global DataPoint:
Global DataPoint Ltd (formerly UK DataPoint) was started in 2005 to provide syndicated information and services to publishers, new media and mobile services. Global DataPoint has collated the largest events and entertainment listings database in the UK. Global DataPoint is part of the Science Navigation Group a a sister company of Mapbyte Ltd, a company established in 2000 to deliver real time mapping, navigation and data management solutions, over Internet and wireless platforms. Another sister company (Telmap Ltd) is a world leader in Mapping and Navigation Solutions.
About Trinity Mirror Regionals
The Regionals division comprises a mix of print and online assets covering a wide geographic area across the UK. The division publishes over 200 local and regional newspaper titles, which are complemented by a range of free newspapers, supplements and magazines across Scotland, the North East and North West, Wales, Midlands and London and the South East. Our market-leading regional titles are supplemented in their markets of Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle, Scotland and Birmingham by free morning Metro titles which extend our reach to a younger, urban audience that is highly appealing to advertisers.
Contact: Dominic Taylor, Global DataPoint, 0207 631 9117.
Posted Friday, February 8th, 2008