martes, 22 de octubre de 2013

ASP & WCT

Asp & World Tour parece que para el próximo año hay cambios muy importantes en el wct la Asp se encargara de mover todo el pastel: it was known long ago that 2014 would be the year of changes in the ASP and the whole professional surfing . Now professional surfing organization has announced what will consist . If hitherto surf brands themselves responsible for creating websites , retransmission , promotion and exploitation of the events from 2014 will be the ASP in charge of it. It will be a kind of centralization of professional surfing all in one estate . What do you get with it? First visualization homogenization by the viewer . Never mind that the test is in Tahiti than in France , the websites and the relay will be equal. Disappear ? Disastrous Prime championship sites where streaming does not work or just commentators know what they say ? It seems that that is the intention . On the other hand it makes the ASP itself through ZoSea Media is in charge of exploiting all the events on television and the internet. It has already signed an agreement with ESPN for exclusive exploitation during three years of the championships in the United States, and one with Youtube to broadcast from this platform all WCT events for men and women , and BWWT ( big waves ) , with Facebook as the leading social network . In theory this should mean an increase in revenue, fresh little money to distribute among surfers , brands, and ASP . The hearing will be most important , so in theory the more spectacle, more audience. Will he return to the circuit J -Bay ? Indonesia ? Have its own test of the WCT ? What's not yet clear is the role that they will play surf brands in this new scenario , but it seems that much of the power lost in the ASP acquired over the years