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UK – Bookmaking supplier SIS moves into social space
By Phil - 27 March 2014
Satellite Information Services (SIS) is moving into the social media space by partnering with digital intelligence experts iris-Concise to develop innovative monitoring products for use by bookmakers, their traders and punters.
SIS will work with iris Concise, the consulting arm of the creative innovation network iris, to develop sophisticated search tools with the capability to listen in to social comment on leading networks, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. This will then be filtered by date, sport, territory, betting trends, bet-types and markets, and a range of other topics, enabling SIS to produce a wealth of data around a given event whether it is football, horse racing or tennis, or a major event such as the World Cup. It can then turn that into useful applications to help all sides of the betting industry.
A leading provider of end-to-end products and services to the betting and broadcast industries, SIS’s partnership with iris Concise, experts in social intelligence, is the latest strand in its digital strategy to grow and diversify its range of services, shaping and developing ground-breaking solutions aimed at the betting industry, and roll out those products into the digital market place.
Paul Baker, SIS’s Director of Strategic Development, said: “People usually discuss their plans before acting on them, and that’s clearly reflected in their social network activity. We can listen in to that social chatter and by filtering it, we can gather an enormous amount of data and in turn develop a range of products to help our customers and their customers. This is at the cutting edge of social media and we are excited about the prospect of bringing new ideas to the market place. Our partner iris Concise are experts at handling that data and understanding how best to shape it and we are delighted to be working with them.”
Benjamin Chilcott, Managing Director at iris Concise, said: “This is an exciting new partnership that allows us to leverage our 10-plus years of experience in the leisure and gaming industry, and our deep digital innovation expertise, to help SIS deliver social listening products. Moreover, as part of the global iris network, iris Concise can bring to bear all of this expertise and experience in helping brands shape the innovation agenda in their markets, to help SIS deliver extraordinary digital services for bookmakers, their traders and punters.”
The listening process is done on a non-personalised, aggregated basis and is carried out in full compliance with privacy policies operated by the social media platforms.
