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2012 is going to be a busy year for the UK. With the Olympics coming to London, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and a multitude of festivals across the England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Global DataPoint has made things simpler and better for our customers new and old with the addition of datasets for these events.

The new ‘Event Group’ attribute will allow the many thousands of disparate events to be grouped together. Websites and mobile applications will easily be able to browse all events related to the London 2012 Olympics whether it is part of the sporting competitions, the Cultural Olympiad festival or the Torch Relay. Other big festivals will have all related events tagged with this field. A full list is shown below and will be added to over time:

London 2012 Olympic Games             Edinburgh Fringe
Brighton Festival                     The Big Draw
Queens Diamond Jubilee                National Garden Scheme
Leicester Comedy Festival             Ulster Bank Belfast Festival
Buxton Festival                       Cardiff Festival
Buxton Fringe Festival                Swn Festival
Manchester International Festival     Brecon Jazz Festival
Manchester Pride                      Camden Crawl
Manchester Literature Festival        BBC Proms
Manchester Science Festival           Canterbury Festival
Manchester Comedy Festival            London Open House
Manchester Food and Drink Festival    Cheltenham Music Festival
World Shakespeare Festival            Thames Festival
Edinburgh International festival      London Design Festival
BFI London Film festival              Cheltenham Literature Festival

Global DataPoint is pleased to announce the arrival of new Account Managers, Mike Meric and Ben Rainbow.

Ben brings with him 14 years of international management and sales experience. Previously he has worked at SPG Media, Datamonitor, Monster and VSW. He has not only dealt with media and market research sales, but has also managed teams as well as overseen consultancy projects. Some of the clients he has worked with include UPS, VW, BSkyB, Vodafone, UPS and British Airways. His last role saw him carrying out sales training for a contract publishers. Interestingly although his surname is Rainbow, Ben is actually colour blind!

Mike most recently, worked for a media owner selling a portfolio of unique and unmissable media within a newly created Direct Sales team. He was responsible for new business development, and the management of accounts. Key clients included major high street retailers, LLPs/ solicitors, estate agent groups, car dealerships, universities and councils. Prior to that he worked in financial services selling to mortgage brokers, IFA’s and wealth managers. He’s a keen chess player although not quite at Grandmaster level yet!

Both will report directly to Managing Director, Dominic Taylor and will liaise with existing clients such as London 24, Virgin Media and KM Group as well as new accounts. Dominic stated “I’m very happy for Mike and Ben to be joining our team. I’m sure their experience and media knowledge will aid Global DataPoint in growing our customer base and supporting current customers.”

If you would like information about GDP data and services please contact them directly:

Ben Rainbow - 020 7631 9958 or email on ben.rainbow (at) globaldatapoint.com

Mike Meric - 020 7631 9120 or email on mike.meric (at) globaldatapoint.com

From September Global DataPoint added an additional dataset to our portfolio. The new Sports & Leisure category will feature more than 10,000 events from 2000 venues across the UK. This will include both sporting events for spectators and participatory local leisure listings.

Here is a list of the sub-categories covered:

Sport & Leisure (introduced from 5th September 2011)

• Archery
• Athletics
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Boxing
• Cricket
• Cycling & Biking
• Disability sports
• Equestrian
• Extreme Sports
• Fishing, Hunting & Shooting
• Football
• Golf
• Highland Games
• Horseracing
• Martial Arts
• Motor Sports
• Racquet Sports
• Rowing & Sailing
• Rugby
• Running
• Winter Sports
• Swimming
• Triathlon
• Volleyball
• Walking & Hiking
• Water Sports
• Wrestling

Please contact us to discuss licencing options and pricing for this new dataset.

As of January 1st 2008, we changed our name from UK DataPoint to Global DataPoint. As UK DataPoint we held the most comprehensive database of UK Events and Venues. In addition to cementing our position regarding UK Events we are expanding our operations to include Global Arts Events and What’s On information and the change in name reflects this improved degree of comprehensiveness.

In addition we are adding a Transport Events division to collect and collate road closures and traffic related data in the UK. We are working with some of the biggest names in global mapping and satellite navigation to introduce these ground breaking data sets.

We look forward to continuing to provide excellent data and service to our valued customers both existing and new. For more details please contact us.