Chris Boardman Previews The Tour De France Exclusively With Future’s Digital Cycling Titles
Highlight Packages Of Each Stage Available To View For Free
29/06/12 Cyclingnews.com, Bikeradar.com and CyclingNewsHD have teamed up with Olympic Gold Medalist and triple Tour de France stage winner Chris Boardman MBE (www.boardmanbikes.com) to create 21 stage preview videos to this year’s Tour de France.
Each platform will continue to deliver their market-leading insight, in-depth coverage in pictures, text and video, and for the first time this year, Future have partnered up with Amaury Sport Organisation to show stage highlights that are available for free to users of both Cyclingnews and BikeRadar.
The beautifully crafted preview videos, created by Future, are an insight into the world’s biggest cycling race by one of the worlds leading cycling authorities, Chris Boardman MBE. Covering the where, what and who to look out for are available to view here. The videos will run across Cyclingnews and BikeRadar as well as being incorporated into our new weekly iPad product CyclingnewsHD.
Jim Eveleigh, Video Producer for the Sports & Automotive group at Future, says, “This is a key promotion for us and again highlights our ambition to make cycling more accessible to fans at every level. I am immensely proud that the hard work of my team has resulted in what I consider to be our finest work to date. Combined with the content from the ASO, I have no doubt that this will be the biggest and best year for cycling at Future yet ”
For more information please contact Ben Pester, Communications Manager at ben.pester@futurenet.com or 0207 042 4035 and 07737 138 384
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Editors Notes:
About Future’s Cycling Portfolio:
Future’s depth and reach of content makes us the world’s number one cycling publisher across print, online and on the move. Online, our cycling websites now attract up to 4.8 million global visitors every month. Cyclingnews.com is the world’s biggest news and results service for professional cycling, whilst Bikeradar.com is a comprehensive resource for all cyclists, featuring the largest reviews and product information database in the world. CyclingNewsHD is the worlds leading weekly cycling App available exclusively through Apple’s Newsstand.
Our print titles lead the market with PPA award-winning magazine Cycling Plus continuing to grow and Procycling remaining the world’s best road racing title. Off-road, Mountain Biking UK is Britain’s biggest selling mountain bike magazine and What Mountain Bike is the UK’s leading off-road buying title.
About Future:
Future plc is an international media group and leading digital publisher, listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: FUTR). Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events. We hold market-leading positions in Games, Film, Music, Technology, Cycling, Crafts and Automotive. Our biggest-selling products include TechRadar, T3, Total Film, BikeRadar, MusicRadar, Classic Rock, Mollie Makes, GamesRadar and Official Xbox Magazine. TechRadar is the UK’s number one consumer technology website. Future sells 2.9 million magazines each month; we attract more than 34 million monthly unique visitors to our websites; and we deliver over 100 digital editions and bespoke apps on tablet. Future exports or syndicates publications to 89 countries, making us the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of magazine content. Future is the Association of Online Publishers’ Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year.