Sports channels, leagues and teams are looking to create custom websites to satisfy the thirst for information of sports lovers. They need an online platform where fans can get news, statistics, highlights, events, and opinions about their favorite sport. Until now, creating dynamic websites required the help of professional web designers.
Vizrt, a provider of applications for content production in the digital media industry, will present a software package, Viz Sports online, which incorporates all the creative tools and widgets necessary to launch a sports website just by taking it out of the box. Viz Sports online is a flexible and modular, easy-to-use set of pre-configured tools from Vizrt, which gives users complete creative freedom over the look of web pages, image versions and sizes, and the overall structure of the site.
All utilities for creating and uploading videos, graphics, texts, images, maps, statistics, are available in a drag-and-drop publishing environment. The product includes a complete video editor, playlists, and video advertising integration capabilities. The package also simplifies the process of delivering rich multimedia content, with support for different mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPAd and other laptops common on the market.
Real-time interactivity is also planned. RSS and Twitter feeds are naturally integrated, as well as sophisticated statistics provided by Stats.com. Service administrators can create relationships between this data and editorial content, such as pages dedicated to teams, players, matches, games and special events, to keep users fully informed and "hooked". The sites created with Viz Sports online allow the audience to contribute their own blogs, comments and profile pages customized by themselves, as well as participate in forums and rate the contents.
