“Odnoklassniki” and “Telesport” Company agreed on live broadcasts of the next friendly matches of the Russian football team in social network. Games with Brazil and France can be viewed in Teleport group in social network.

On Friday, March 23 at 19:00 match against Brazil starts in OK, and on Tuesday, March 27 in the arena of “St. Petersburg” will start match against France. Stanislav Minin and Denis Alhazov will be commenting on match against Brazil, Denis Nalivayko and Alexey Andronov will report from match against France.

Viewers will be able to watch national team play in high quality on any device: in desktop and mobile versions of social network, in OK applications on iOS and Android, as well as on big TV screen using OK Video applications on Smart TV and Android TV.

For the first time, Odnoklassniki showed matches of Russian football team in November 2017: games with Argentina and Spain were broadcast on social network, which scored more than 3 million views.

In conjunction with “Telesport” Company social network broadcasts the biggest sports events: live broadcasts have attracted millions of views in social network. In OK it is possible to watch regularly matches of the championship of Spain on soccer, Football national League, Cup of Europe on basketball, competitions on UFC and Championship of Russia on figure skating. In February 2018, in OK it was possible to observe the course of Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang: total audience of the competitions in social network exceeded 33 million people. Olympic broadcasts and videos with the brightest moments gathered more than 220 million views in Odnoklassniki; some of them were shown in Ultra HD (4K).

Alexander Volodin, Director of strategic partnership of Odnoklassniki social network:
This is our second experience of broadcasting matches of Russian team. Matches with Brazil and France — this is a great opportunity for our users to see the game of Russian players just a few months before World Cup. Thanks to technology of social network, audience of OK will be able to get maximum viewing experience and at the same time to discuss game with friends in online chat.

Ilya Rustamov, General producer of Telesport Group:
Lately “Telesport” broadcast in Odnoklassniki largest sporting events: Championship of Spain on football, friendly matches of Russian team, Olympic Games and other competitions. We see the interest of users of social network to sporting events, so we actively continue to work with OK in this direction. Football and World Cup are the main topics for next few months: broadcast of next matches of the team should warm up interest of fans to football throughout the country.

SOURRCE: OK