Ssports & SMIT Set Up Joint Venture

July 18, 2013, Shenzhen. Super Sports Media Group and SMiT today announced that they had signed agreement on joint venture formation in March this year. Aiming at providing football fans with access to top sporting events via internet transmission anywhere at any time, it will initially focus on PROMOTION and operation of English Premier League (hereinafter referred as EPL) in China. The subordinate website Ssports (www.ssports.com) will be the only live network platform in China for all 380 games in one season, and among them nearly half of the games are exclusive.

By setting up this joint venture, Ssports and SMiT seek to introduce and enhance the wide spread and PROMOTIONS of top sporting events like EPL on internet and mobile internet. It will focus on building up EPL as a more influential sporting event in China.

Ssports chose SMiT as its partner for the reason that as a global-leading operation platform provider for secure distribution of paid contents, SMiT is highly-specialized and experienced in internet applications as well as secure transmission of contents. This joint venture will enhance mutual collaboration, enlarge market potential, and enable quicker access to richer and more diversified sporting events and information.

"We are proud to have the opportunity to set up a joint venture with Ssports, an experienced company on sporting events operation with exclusive broadcasting rights of EPL in China.” Said Hongyu Shuai, the President of SMiT, “It will not only provide simultaneous HD experience of all 380 games over the season for millions of audiences, but also offer an online community with superb activities. It fully complies with business development strategies of both companies.”

About Ssports

Ssports is an innovative sports broadcasting organization. As the most valuable all-round business partner of Media and top sporting events, Ssports integrates transmissions of TV, new digital media and mobile internet to reach all-media coverage and thus bring brand new watching experiences to audiences.

Ssports has the exclusive broadcasting rights of EPL from season 2010/11 to 2018/19.

For more information, please visit http://www.ssports.com.

About SMiT

SMiT is a global-leading operation platform provider for secure distribution of paid contents. In broadcasting industry, SMiT is a world famous provider for customized Conditional Access Module (CAM). Besides, SMiT is also an end-to-end platform provider for secure distribution of OTT paid contents in internet industry, offering operators and content providers flexible OTT-based solutions. 

SMiT is founded in 2003 with its headquarter located in Hong Kong. It has branches in Shenzhen, Beijing, Munich, and Silicon Valley. Currently it has about 400 employees.

For more information, please visit http://www.smit.com.cn.