PAOK TV is a contender for the Best Platform of the Year up against the likes of La Liga TV, the Olympic Games official television channel, WWE Network, and the Tennis Channel. Not only that, PAOK TV is also in the running for Best New Platform. The list of competitors for that prize are the likes of Chelsea, Leeds United, the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the NFL and the UFC/.

Let’s start with the basics. What are the Sports OTT Awards?

The Sports OTT Awards, as we mentioned above without a hint of exaggeration, is the ‘Champions League’ of the digital world. Included are FIFA, UEFA, IOC, NBA, NFL, WWE, and UFC, but also giants like DAZN, beIN, Sky Sports, BT Sports, Eleven Sports, Eurosport, and dozens of other companies such as Facebook or the House of Highlights digital phenomenon.

The ceremony takes place every year in Madrid as a black tie event with a red carpet and more than 3,000 top executives are invited. This year, it will be an online event due to Covid-19.

And so let’s go to the next question. What is PAOK doing among these organizations?

PAOK was invited by the organizers to participate for the first time in the awards due to the reputation that PAOK TV has earned, but also to be a keynote speaker at the two-day conference following the awards.

Thus, PAOK has submitted entries in three categories, deciding to measure its strength against the world elite and goe toe-to-toe with them.

Here are the categories that we have put forward our candidature for PAOK TV:

• Best New Platform
• Best Original Content for Toumba Uncensored
• Best Marketing Campaign for the video campaign for the launch of the new PAOK TV platform

And from those three submissions, PAOK has managed to be shortlisted in four categories!!! And so we arrive at the third question.

What is the shortlist, and how has PAOK TV managed to get in the running for four awards with only three submissions?

In each category of the Sports OTT Awards, many nominations are submitted that aspire to claim the grand prize. All nominations are considered by the jury ending up on the shortlist. That is, in the top five nominations, which – by Oscar standards – participate in the award ceremony.

Therefore PAOK, has got on the shortlist in all the categories it participated in, and then in one more! The most difficult and prominent: The Platform of the Year. But how? The organizers decided that PAOK TV deserves to be in the running to claim this award as well. The best sports platform of 2020 in the world.

In any case, PAOK TV is already in the top five platforms in the world for 2020. It is in the top five new platforms in the world. Toumba Uncensored is among the top five original sports content items in the world. And the PAOK TV campaign is one of the best four in the world.

If you understand everything so far, let’s take a closer look at the awards that PAOK and its opponents are battling it out for to give you a clear picture of the size of the competition and the success of PAOK TV.

Platform of the Year

Shortlist  

• PAOK TV
• LaLiga: LaLiga Sports TV
• Olympic Channel
• Sportradar & Tennis Channel: Tennis Channel International
• WWE: WWE Network
• Flosports

Best New Platform

Shortlist  

• ELEVEN SPORTS BELGIUM
• LiveScore TV
• NAGRA: Watch.Hockey
• PAOK TV: Press Play
• SPORTRECS

Best Marketing Campaign

Shortlist  

• PAOK TV
• Racing TV: Cheltenham 2020
• NFL Game Pass by Two Circles
• UFC FIGHT PASS by We Play

Best Original Content

Shortlist  

• PAOK TV: Toumba Uncensored
• Chelsea FC – Frank Lampard: Coming Home
• Take Us Home: Leeds United (Neo Studios)
• Wimbledon & Rebel Venture – Pursuits
• UFC FIGHT PASS ORIGINALS

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• Ben Lavender – DAZN Chief Product Officer
• Bhavesh Patel – beIN Global Digital Director
• Louisa Clark – BT Sport Head of Business Development
• Guy Laurent Epstein – UEFA Marketing Director
• Sebastian Audoux – Canal+ Head of Sports Digital Content
• David Arroyo – Moto GP Digital Director
• Clark Pierce – Fox Sports Founder
• Charlie Boss – ESPN Commercial Director
• Victoria Cotton – BBC Sport Executive Editor

See the full list of the judges here:

https://awards.sportspro-ott.com/judges/judges-2020/

When will the ceremony take place?

On December 1, PAOK and the rest of the candidates will attend the online event where the Case Studies will be presented and all of the winners will be announced.

See the complete shortlist for the Sports OTT Awards:

https://awards.sportspro-ott.com/categories/shortlist-2020/?utm_campaign=shortlist-announcement

And here are last year’s winners:

https://awards.sportspro-ott.com/categories/shortlist-2019/