NEW YORK (Februar. 16, 2018) – Beginning næste fredag, Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE serves up tripleheader action inside the squared circle. To open the weekend, the fan-friendly boxing and MMA streaming service partners once again with renowned promoter Jimmy Burchfield Sr. for a red-hot CES Boxing card to start the boxing year in New England. Fans from across the globe can catch all the action beginning at 8 p.m. OG live from Twin River Casino in Rhode Island on any device wherever Facebook is available.
“This is an exciting main event between two deserving championship contenders and there’s no better partner than FIGHTNIGHT LIVE to provide fight fans all around the globe a front-row seat to the action. Ray Oliveira Jr. has paid his dues though the years while other fighters in New England have had the opportunity to see their name in lights. Now he gets his shot to headline for the first time in his career while competing for his first championship,” said Burchfield, Sr.
Recently hitting the 1,000,000 views mark, Friday’s show rings the opening bell on FIGHTNIGHT LIVE’s Februar. 23-24 back-to-back-to-back Friday and Saturday shows spanning from the casinos of New England to the Boardwalk of Atlantic City.
“At this point, CES and FIGHTNIGHT LIVE are family,” sagde Mark Fratto, Rektor for Linacre Medier. “Vi kender hinanden, we love working on shows with the Burchfield and CES Family and have relationships with the promoters and fighters that extend long past the bell. These are great people and great athletes and we’re excited as always to give them a platform to showcase their talent and tell their stories. What a great way to open a jam-packed weekend of Facebook fights.”
CES Boxing kicks off the 2018 Twin River Casino Fight Series on Fredag, Februar. 23, with Fall River, Mass., junior mellemvægt Ray Oliveira Jr. (9-1, 1 KO) headlining for the first time in his career and vying for the World Boxing Union (WBU) Super Welterweight Canadian-American-Mexican (CAM) Championship in an eight-round showdown against New Haven, Conn., veteran Edwin Soto (11-2-2, 4 KOS), plus a six-round heavyweight co-feature between Sicilian Juiseppe Cusumano (13-1, 11 KOS) and battle-tested Pittsburgh, Pa., indfødte Fred Latham (9-1-2, 5 KOS).
Over the first nine-plus months of programming, the numbers on the 12-show FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series have showed promise and potential for the new platform with an average of close to 90,000 fight fans tuning in per event and more than one-million fans served.
Den Syv. 9 “Real Deal Kampagner: Empire State” fra Resorts World Casino (225,000), August CES “Super lørdag” fra Foxwoods (203,000), Sept. CES “Twin River Twinbill” fra Lincoln, R.I. (157,000) alle toppede 150,000 visninger, and collectively the 12-show series saw a total of more than 21,000 total hours of Facebook video consumed by 1,067,435-plus users across all devices.
Ud over de rå seertallet numre, det fuldt interaktiv, fan-venlige produktioner har set mere end 142,000 kollektive levende indlæg engagementer (næsten 12,000 per show), herunder næsten 97,000 “kan lide” eller “elsker,” mere end 22,000 comments and almost 6,000 aktier.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcasts are viewed by 76 procent mænd, 24 procent kvinder. The top demographic is comprised of males ages 25-34, der omfatter ca. 30.0 procent af publikum, gennemsnitlig.
Den Syv. 9 “Real Deal Kampagner: Empire State” set a new bar with 224,658 visninger og Syv. 15-16 DiBella-CES doubleheader carried the series to three-quarters-of-a-million views in just over four months. Feb.. 10 Hard-Hitting Promotions “Philly Fight Night” show skiller sig ud individuelt med 3,421 live hours of content viewed, mens Syv. 15 DiBella kort sav mere end 40,000 viewer interaktioner herunder næsten 39,000 “kan lide” eller “elsker.”
Den FIGHTNIGHT LIVE side på Facebook har mere end 80,000 fans og mere end 82,000 tilhængere. And Facebook itself has taken notice – the world’s No. 1 social network recently profiled FIGHTNIGHT LIVE on its “Success Stories” media blog, noting the series’ use of industry best practices for production and interactivity:
Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE has been delivered to fans absolutely free since its May 2017
launch courtesy of series corporate partners like Elite Heat Water,
Montauk Iced Tea (
montaukbev.com),
Hr. Custom Made(
mrcustommade.com) og
BallWash (
ballwash.com).
Fredag aften, Februar. 23, live from live from Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I., fans kan forvente en stor effekt, multi-kamera streaming oplevelse komplet med grafik, animationer, replays, interviews og et annonceret hold forankret af blow-by-blow-annoncør Michael Woods of the TalkBox Podcast, NYFights.com and The Ring and analyst Xavier Porter of BrooklynFights.com and Notorious Boxing. At give tilskuere en fuldt interaktiv ringoplevelse, kommentatorer vil bede og svare på spørgsmål fra Facebook-publikum i hele udsendelsen.
Lavet og produceret af Linacre medier ud af New York City, den FIGHTNIGHT LIVE serien er udstyret med professionelle announcers, flere kameravinkler, tv-grafik, replays og bag-kulisserne adgang og interviews. De streamede shows er tilgængelige globalt, hvor Facebook er tilgængelig. Initiativet ikke alene gør det muligt for fans fra hele verden for at stille ind, men også giver up-and-coming krigere en global platform til at fremvise deres evner, giver initiativtagere en tilgængelig “broadcast” løsning og giver sponsorer mulighed for at nå et bredt publikum via branded content.
Mere FIGHTNIGHT LIVE vinter / forår 2018 datoer vil blive officielt annonceret i de kommende uger.
Følg alle de foranstaltninger via sociale medier hos FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE på Facebook, @FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE på Instagram og @ FIGHTNIGHTLIVE_ på Twitter, eller ved at bruge hashtag #FIGHTNIGHTLIVE. For de seneste Linacre Media begivenheder og broadcast tidsplan, follow@LinacreMedia across all social platforms or use the tags #LinacreMediaEvents or #LinacreMediaOnTV.
