WSN.com

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World Sports Network
Type Privately held
Founded 2005 Flag of the United States
Founder Charles H Gillespie
Headquarters 700 Huangpi South Road, Building B, Suite 412, Shanghai, China, Flag of the People's Republic of ChinaChina
Key people Charles Gillespie, CEO
Kevin McCrystle, COO
Jack Zheng, CTO
David Feng, VP Marketing
Industry Internet, Media, Sports
Employees 21 (2008)
Website http://www.wsn.com,
http://cn.wsn.com,
http://hk.wsn.com
Registration available, but not required
Available in English,
Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese
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World Sports Network (WSN) is a privately held company that runs WSN.com, a comprehensive sports content destination with over a half million pages of soccer content in three languages. WSN is best known for their in-depth sports betting content like historical statistics (particularly Asian handicaps) and current betting trends. WSN offers an International English version of the website along with local versions for Hong Kong and Mainland China. Currently, WSN exclusively covers soccer with plans to start covering NBA basketball during the 2008-2009 season.

In addition to soccer coverage, WSN offers free sports betting contests where users can place weekly fantasy sports bets to win prizes through their WSN Fantasy Sportsbook. [1][2]

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[edit] History

WSN was founded in 2005 by Charles H Gillespie. Gillespie started by assembling experienced executives from Chinese internet media companies like Sina.com and EachNet along with sports broadcasting technology pioneers from the United States to fund and launch the WSN.com website in 2007.

The original business plan was to develop a website that delivered compelling sports content across a wide variety of languages with an initial focus on the Asia Pacific region. In the view of the WSN founders, the online needs of sports fans across the Asia Pacific region were underserved. The website was designed to offer in-depth sports coverage to the regions increasingly intense base of fans. As many of the region's fans consumed sports betting activities alongside their traditional sports media, the company decided to make sports betting related content their initial focus.[3]

[edit] WSN.com Sports Coverage

The WSN.com sports coverage focuses on delivering betting related content about past and future soccer events. All language versions feature the same statistical content for world soccer. This includes content like team statistics, match summaries, future match previews and live scores. Both Chinese language versions of WSN offer original, editorial content from the company's staff writers in Shanghai. The International English version of WSN includes news wire sources.

[edit] WSN Fantasy Sportsbook

The WSN Fantasy Sportsbook is a fantasy betting game that offers two different types of contests: the WSN Championship and WSN Friendly Challenges. The WSN Championship is the company's official fantasy soccer betting tournament with weekly prizes. WSN Friendly Challenges is a sports betting tournament platform where users may create their own public or private contests and invite their friends.

[edit] Charles H Gillespie

Gillespie has been featured as an expert in digital marketing and iGaming for the Asia-Pacific region. Gillespie presented at the 2008 Asian i-Gaming Congress in Macau on these topics. [4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Adaline Lau. WSN Takes a Gamble Online. Marketing Interactive. Retrieved on May 1, 2008.
  2. ^ Charles Gillespie. blog WSN. Retrieved on May 1, 2008.
  3. ^ Victoria Burrows. High stakes, High Prizes. DigitalMedia Magazine Asia. Retrieved on May 1, 2008.
  4. ^ AIG 2008 Speakers. Retrieved on May 1, 2008.

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