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Well done to everyone involved at the inaugural Keely Klassic in Birmingham on Saturday – a fun and engaging event that brought fans closer to the action as well as delivering some top-level athletics and stand out performances. Not least Keely herself getting involved with some DJing! The Whisper events team brought their ‘A’ game too, helping elevate the in-arena presentation with enhanced visuals, graphics and crowd engagement. Thanks to Nick Pearson at the FORTE Talent Group and UK Athletics for their support and getting us involved. And it went down well in the media. Could this be part of a new future for athletics, where entertainment and sport combine to excite established fans while attracting a fresh and younger audience to the sport.  Matt Lawton and Sean Ingle think so, and we agree! https://lnkd.in/e4AU6WEb https://lnkd.in/eFPM4Ta9

Formula E’s record-breaking season of global viewership continues. And Whisper has been at the forefront, delivering high quality, personality-based programming for global English language territories over the first four races of Season 11.    📺 📈     Our CBS coverage of Round Two in Mexico drew a record 10.5 million cumulative viewers 🖥️ 🔝     Round Three and Four in Saudi Arabia saw Whisper breaking our own records by delivering 17 English Language Programmes, and over 50 clips of feature and promo content across a single race weekend in Jeddah.  o  Live in-vision presented programming offering one hour, 30 minute, and five minute build-up options to both races, o  Bespoke highlights shows for broadcasters across different territories o  Whisper’s remote production team in London worked hand-in-hand with the onsite team in Saudi Arabia to deliver it all at quality and scale. o  Whisper partnered with Formula E to secure IBO World Middleweight boxing champion Chris Eubank Junior to front the coverage of race four on Saturday.    Whisper’s CEO and co-founder, Sunil Patel said: “For ground-breaking sports like Formula E, the ability to deliver broadcasters high quality bespoke programming and content is crucial to building a global brand, taking the drama and personalities of the sport to bigger and bigger audiences.   “This is borne out by the strong US viewing figures and UK viewership of Formula E. With programming moving onto ITV4 and ITVX, produced by Whisper, audiences have grown by 120% year-on-year in the UK.” #WeAreWhisper #EntertainmentIsEverything #FormulaE #SportsBiz #SportsMedia

Although it’s a real shame that Keely Hodgkinson won’t be able to go for her world 800m short track record attempt at the Keely Klassic on Saturday – best wishes for a speedy recovery, Keely – she will still be at the Utilita Arena Birmingham helping showcase the very best of British athletics. And Whisper will be doing our bit with Keely, and all the other athletes, to take the Keely Klassic to the next level. 🙌 🙌 🙌 Fan first in-arena engagement 🏃♀️➡️ 🤝 🍿 Bringing the worlds of sport and entertainment together 🚀 🎥 🖥️ Elevating the visuals, graphics and digital content 👊 🫶 🥇 Helping bring athletics to a new, wider and younger audience We can’t wait for Saturday. Elevating events like this with creative thinking and technical expertise is a core part of Whisper getting things done. https://lnkd.in/e7KtP79r Big thanks to UK Athletics for their support, and Forte Management for their partnership. #WeAreWhisper #EntertainmentIsEverything #GetItDone #KeelyKlassic #UKAthletics #UtilitaArena #Birmingham

Exciting news at Whisper as we announce that Tina Shah and Matt Rogan have joined our Advisory Board, providing strategic counsel and insight to our CEO and co-founder, Sunil Patel, and the rest of the executive team.   As Whisper continues to grow its core offer across sports, documentaries, branded content, live events, esports and unscripted entertainment, both Tina and Matt bring a huge amount of experience across the media, entertainment, data and sports sectors.    As we look to break new ground in markets like the U.S. and Middle East, and explore potential new ventures that will add further value to the Group, Sunil Patel said: ‘Our ambition is clear; to become one of the best and most valuable sport and entertainment agencies in the world, and I am sure that Matt and Tina will be instrumental in helping realise that vision.’ #WeAreWhisper #EntertainmentIsEverything #SportsMedia #SportsBiz https://lnkd.in/eAj-BRJQ

Whisper ’s Super Bowl LIX team is still hard at work in New Orleans collecting and curating content for our YouTube show for NFL UK - they have been tasting Alligator, meeting the inventor of The Griddy, and experiencing the hype around the world-famous Radio Row and NFL Honors. 🏈 📺 📣 The Weekly Blitz goes live today at 6pm. Big thanks to Henry Hodgson and the team for supporting all our productions. Keep it up Team Whisper – the Madden Bowl for EA SPORTS tonight, and then the final push right through to the big game as the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Kansas City Chiefs face-off for Super Bowl LIX. 🏈 🏆 💪 #WhisperInTheUSA #WeAreWhisper #EntertainmentIsEverything #SuperBowlLIX #NFLUK #EASPORTS #MaddenBowl #Eagles #Chiefs

Whisper ’s Super Bowl LIX team is on the ground in New Orleans and getting involved as the excitement builds towards the big game. Capturing the unique culture and atmosphere that you would expect The Big Easy to deliver, Cori Yarkin, literally had a marching band playing to her tune – well that of our award-winning End Zone show for C5 anyhow! More to come today as Super Bowl LIX weekend builds, and EA SPORTS' Madden Bowl goes live tonight across Twitch and YouTube. #WhisperInTheUSA #WeAreWhisper #EntertainmentIsEverything #SuperBowlLIX #EASPORTS #MaddenBowl #Eagles #Chiefs

We got it done! Whisper won Broadcast Best Sports Programme for our Paralympic Games Paris 2024 output for Channel 4, who are fantastic and valued partners. 🥇 📺 🫶 Well done to everyone at Whisper who worked on delivering innovative, entertaining and engaging content, which did the live action justice and brought the brilliant stories of the athletes to the fore. A real triumph of journalistic excellence working well alongside entertaining and creative coverage. We take pride that the judges recognised the importance of Whisper’s Cymru Broadcast Centre, the most accessible broadcast facility in the UK. It’s important to us that we represent off screen as well as on screen A great night for the industry at the Broadcast Awards. And a great night for Whisper. 🙌 👊 💪 #WeAreWhisper #EntertainmentIsEverything #CymruBroadcastCentre #Accessibility #BroadcastAwards

Whisper likes to do big things differently. So we are bringing our ‘A’ game to Super Bowl week. With teams on the ground in New Orleans capturing all the atmosphere, events and razzamatazz that goes with the biggest week in the US sports and entertainment calendar, for our award-winning NFL End Zone show for Channel 5 and digital show, The Blitz, for NFL UK and Ireland. But there’s more. A first for Whisper as we deepen our partnership with EA SPORTS to produce and deliver one of the iconic events before Super Bowl LIX, the Grand Final of the EA Madden Championship Series – the Madden Bowl 🏈 🎮 🏆 Broadcast live over Twitch and YouTube, the Madden Bowl is as hotly contested and anticipated by gamers this Friday as the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Kansas City Chiefs will be on Sunday night. Extending our partnership with EA SPORTS in the USA adds to Whisper’s increasing presence stateside, where we already work, or have worked, with the likes of F1, FormulaE, the US Open, Windies Cricket and Peloton, as well as HBO, Prime Video and Paramount+ #WeAreWhisper #EntertainmentIsEverything #SuperBowlLIX #EASPORTS #MaddenBowl #Eagles #Chiefs

The leading lights of the industry gather in London tonight to celebrate some of the best people, work, moments, programmes, channels and companies right across the business. The UK is world-leading when it come to the broadcast industry, so the fact Whisper has two nominations for Best Sports Programme - Cwpan Rygbi'r Byd 2023 (Whisper Cymru for S4C) and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 (Whisper for Channel 4) – is a real testament to the quality of work being delivered by our teams on the ground and out of our ground-breaking and innovative Cymru Broadcast Centre in Cardiff. And we are the only production company nominated among channels in that category. Another tremendous achievement. Good luck to all those up for awards tonight, being there is something 🫶 🙌 But we do really want to win 💪 🥇 PS – for those of you who haven’t mastered Welsh yet Cwpan Rygbi'r Byd is the Rugby World Cup 🏉 🌎 🏆 #WeAreWhisper #EntertainmentIsEverything #CymruBroadcastCentre #Accessibility #BroadcastAwards #Channel4 #S4C

Whisper has always been at the forefront of making sure that all the sport we produce gets the highest levels of creativity and quality. We have done this consistently, and to award-winning standards, with the Paralympics and with women’s sport. It’s not just about being fair but delivering an experience that fans demand and ensures that the passion, drama and skill inherent in competitions like the Women’s Super League (WSL) shines. Sunday saw the biggest match of the WSL season so far, with Chelsea Football Club taking on Arsenal F.C at Stamford Bridge in front of an impressive 34,302 crowd – a record for the west London club. Whisper, working with BBC Sport, delivered the sort of promotion, content and coverage that the women’s game deserves, contributing to a record peak audience of 895,000 on BBC2. ⚽ 🥅 🙌 #MakeItHappen #WeAreWhisper #WSL #BBCSport #WomenInFootball #WomenInSport