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OleOle Announces Fantasy Football Game Integrated Into Social Media Site
OleOle’s Fantasy Football (Soccer) game enables fans to select and manage a dream team of European players during the 2008/09 season and compete with their friends
Beverly Hills, Calif. -- 29 July 2008 -- OleOle, the worldwide leading social media site for football fans, has partnered with SilentManager to launch a unique social Fantasy Football game available today for free to all OleOle members.
Unlike any other fantasy football games where players are on their own to create and manage a football team, OleOle’s Fantasy Football game is integrated into OleOle’s social football community so players can interact with each other as they make trades, do player research, and check player history. Each player’s personalized OleOle home page has a Fantasy Football widget where they can keep tabs on their team’s progress at a glance. On the OleOle social media website, they can catch up on the latest rumours, transfers and stats and use OleOle’s Fantasy Stats Centre. The exclusive European Super League enables managers to choose a squad from any of the top five European Leagues to create a true dream team. Fans can also setup private mini-leagues to compete directly against their friends and colleagues. OleOle groups compliment this functionality so mini-leagues can stay in touch with each other and have private discussions about their teams, strategies and make friendly wagers.
OleOle has teamed up with SilentManager, the Brighton based fantasy sports game specialist with a global presence, to develop a fantasy football game that would be embedded in OleOle’s unique multi-lingual social media platform. “We wanted a fantasy football game that offers our members the possibility to interact around fantasy leagues, and we wanted to provide more options than any other game. Together with SilentManager, we were able to create a fantasy game that will engage and captivate our audience thanks to the games’ integration into our social platform and the possibility for fans to debate and discuss strategies and picks”, said Doug Knittle, CEO of OleOle.
OleOle’s Fantasy Football consists of six separate free-to-play games including an exclusive European Super League found only on OleOle. Other leagues include the Bundesliga, Premier League, La Liga, Ligue 1, and Serie A. Players score points based on all league games played over the season. Fantasy team managers have the chance win over €20,000 in monthly and seasonal prizes including the top prize - tickets and travel to the 2009 UEFA Champions League final match in Rome. All games are completely free and available in 7 languages including English – Spanish, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, and Japanese.
About OleOle OleOle is the worldwide leading social media site for football fans. OleOle’s multi-lingual site enables football fans to connect with each other in an environment that has 100% fandriven content - live football scores, blogs, fan clubs, articles, news, podcasts, photos, videos, stats, and history. Using social media features football supporters can write, contribute, share, rate and vote on multimedia content in 10 languages. Founded in 2006, OleOle is a privatelyheld international company with headquarters in Beverly Hills, California and offices in New Zealand as well as across Europe and South America. For more information visit: www.oleole.com
About SilentManager SilentManager has offices both in the UK and Australia and been providing fantasy games to brands and Media since 2002. The Australian office opened in June 2007 and Australian clients include: The Daily Telegraph, MSN Asia, ESPN Sports, SBS, SportsBet and most recently ninemsn. The company provides games globally for brands such as MSN, Virgin, Adidas, Vodafone, LG, Gillette and Heineken. The sports that games are offered in are: Football, Rugby, AFL, NRL, Cricket, Tennis, Cycling, Snooker, Horse-racing, F1, Moto GP and Golf. SilentManager (Australia) Pty Ltd is a division of Silentworld Ltd (www.silentworld.tv) ####