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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.

In its objective to hold the most comprehensive database of UK listings, GDP has added new categories of events. From today customers can have access to two new event categories each with sub-categories:

• Food & Drink
  • Fair & Show
  • Festival
  • Market
  • Tasting
  • Promotions & Offers

• Courses, Classes & Workshops
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Music
  • Language
  • Skills & Learning
  • Health, Fitness & Wellbeing
  • Food & Drink
  • Promotions & Offers

The Courses, Classes & Workshops category alone has more than 50,000 unique activities making it a great resource for end-users and advertisers alike. Lucie Jurikova (GDP Project Manager) observed, “These additional categories expand our database significantly and are some of the fastest growing areas for live events and activities.”

Kent Online today launched its new What’s On events service. The events search engine is developed and hosted by Global DataPoint. This turn-key solution delivers a comprehensive, rich and tailored local events and ‘what’s on’ channel for the Kent region and neighbouring counties.

The site comprises more than 10,000 local events including community and neighbourhood listings. As well as attractions, exhibitions, touring bands and theatre productions, the What’s On section has a comprehensive cinema listings guide.

Global DataPoint can provide fully hosted and designed white-label websites for a range of geographical regions.
Dominic Taylor (Managing Director of GDP) said “I’m very pleased to supply this established regional media company with this great service. The project and technical teams from GDP and KM Group have worked closely together to launch this service to customers in Kent.”

About KM Group
KM Group (formerly Kent Messenger Group) is an independent, family-owned media company serving the people and local communities of Kent and Medway.

Since the turn of the century, Kent’s most well established publisher has grown to become a leading multimedia company. Using print, broadcasting and the Internet to satisfy the needs and wants of both consumer and advertiser.

Facebook and Twitter weblinks for entertainment venues have been added to the Global DataPoint database. From stadium venues such as Capital FM Arena Nottingham to London’s Koko, thousands of fans are following their favourite venues on social networking sites. These new attributes help media and entertainment listings sites to add new functionality and usability to their services. They can be integrated into mobile apps as well.

It’s not just the youth sector that is well served with social networking sites. More traditional and established venues are realising the benefits of communicating with their visitors through these services. Tourist attractions such as Oxford Castle and cultural institutions like the National Gallery both have active twitters streams and Facebook groups. Global DataPoint now offers these links in our xml data schema for any existing or prospective customer.

These new attributes are in addition to the other multimedia components in the data feed. These include video links, film trailers, music videos from muzu.tv, Ticketmaster affiliate links and images and a wide range of venue and event images.

Tom Matchett (Account Manager at GDP) commented, “These social media components show our commitment to staying at the forefront of content and data trends. Facebook and Twitter are essential to establishing and retaining audience for any entertainment and media brand.”

Global DataPoint, the UK’s leading provider of entertainment event listings content, is pleased to announce new client partnerships with leading UK brands.

In addition to its existing relationships with major media groups such as Global Radio, Trinity Mirror Group Plc and Tourist Boards such as Marketing Birmingham and Visit London, Global DataPoint will now also supply an additional four new clients with its highly comprehensive datasets.

In the media sector, GDP is now working with quad-play pioneer Virgin Media,  local media specialists NWN Media and the hyper-local site network The Activ Group.  In addition, to these exciting wins in the media sector, Global DataPoint has further expanded into the Tourism sector and has been chosen by Visit Scotland to provide it with the very best in ‘what’s on’ data.

Global DataPoint  is now firmly established as the premier source of high quality, comprehensive and granular data of this kind in the United Kingdom.

1st November 2009

Rate My Area (www.ratemyarea.com) are expanding their coverage from Ireland to include the UK, bringing their exciting proposition to a much wider community. Rate My Area chose Global DataPoint as the provider of Event and What’s On data for this expansion following close analysis of the depth, breadth and granularity of our coverage in the specified areas. We are very happy to be part of the expansion of this excellent example of the power of Location Based Information provision.

16th June 2009

Following the acquisition of GCap, the UK’s premier radio company Global Radio now boasts extra powerhouse radio brands such as LBC, Galaxy and the Heart network. We are delighted to announce that Global DataPoint have been chosen to supply comprehensive Event and What’s On listings data across these new brands, as well as continuing to supply data to the likes of XFM, Capital and Classic FM. Global DataPoint will also be working with the millions of listeners across the varied stations to ensure that their local events reach as wide an audience as possible.

Manchester Evening News (Guardian Media Group) partner with GDP

10th July 2008

Global DataPoint are delighted to announce Manchester Evening News Media as their latest partner in the provision of comprehensive local Event and What’s On listings Information. With the imminent re-launch of the legendary City Life brand, MEN media needed a supplier who understood the need for detailed local coverage. Matthew Davies, City Life Product Manager said:

“We chose Global Datapoint because we are determined to deliver the most comprehensive listings possible on our forthcoming City Life site, as it’s what the brand has long been synonymous with, and it’s what our Manchester users deserve. Global Datapoint understood this need for detailed coverage of our local area. In addition, Global DataPoint will be helping us to empower users to promote their own events through the site.”

We are very excited to be involved with City Life and have attached dedicated resources, as per normal with each of our clients, to help facilitate MEN media to achieve the promotion of user events. This is alongside the comprehensive and granular data we already supply, features that are at the core of our local listings proposition.

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 of independent media companies based in London with offices throughout the world.
About MEN Media
Guardian Media Group’s GMG Regional Media comprises two operating businesses: MEN Media and Surrey & Berkshire Media. MEN Media is a multimedia business with leading print, online and TV brands across Greater Manchester. Its portfolio includes one of the UK’s leading daily metropolitan newspapers – the Manchester Evening News – as well as the Manchester Online website, city TV station Channel M, the free daily Metro and a number of local weekly newspapers and their associated websites.