Marketing, Sponsoring, TV, Internet and Press

Tasks and Duties

• To provide to FILA a list of press journalists and World News Agencies interested in wrestling.
• To prepare information and results in view of each important event in order to inform the journalists.
• To set up the same structure for the photographers.
• To build a photo file for each Championship on the FILA website and to place it at the disposal of photographers.
• To organize a press conference at the time of each Championship to inform on FILA's activities.
• To set up the  Press Centre with the Organizing Committee and to see to its smooth running.
• To organize the annual contest for the best photographer and the best journalist in the sport of wrestling.
• To examine with AIPS the possibility to create a "wrestling" press accreditation.
• To contact the various television companies and to participate in the preparation of television contracts.
• To contact television channels to offer the broadcasting of the FILA competitions which are not already included in a television contract.
• To establish a list of national television companies managers and maintain permanent contact with them to encourage television broadcasting in their respective countries.
• To set up a special structure for African and Latin American countries in view of being able to offer a free of charge broadcast of the wrestling competitions in their area.
• To produce movies and videos to be broadcasted on television for the promotion of wrestling (in collaboration with the Master Degrees and Promotions Department). 
• To seek sponsors for the FILA advertising spaces (mats, referees, podiums, etc.) for World and Continental Championships.
• To contact marketing agencies on all continents and study with them the possibilities to find sponsors for FILA or to prospect in the various marketing schools for the hiring of a person in charge of a whole continent for all FILA controlled competitions.
• To check the compliance of marketing directors with the stipulations in the contracts at the various competitions.
• To contact and invite the sponsors to the various competitions and to arrange a space specially reserved for them in the sport hall.
• To control the installation of the stands allotted to the various sponsors on the occasion of competitions.
• To seek sponsors for the various FILA publications.
• To propose and undertake all marketing actions which can bring revenues to FILA.
• To prepare and publish the FILA review twice a year.
• To study the set up of a virtual shop for the sale of FILA by-products with on-line payment.