The Wales Rally GB is the UK round of the World Rally Championship. The principal sponsor for this event is the Wales Assembly Government.

Wales Rally GB, one of Wales' long standing flagship events, has been exclusively hosted in the country since the year 2000. Over the past decade, the rally has evolved and in 2011 visited a far greater proportion of Wales than ever before.

The rally provides an ideal platform for Wales to showcase its capability in staging major sporting events on an annual basis and the 30,000 people employed within its automotive manufacturing, retail & maintenance sectors collectively with a turnover of £3 billion annually to the national economy. Wales is able to offer a wide portfolio of technology organisations and academic institutions currently working within the global automotive arena.

The sports broadcasting experience of Comuniq8 Limited has been contracted by the promoter of the event, International Motor Sports to liaise with the global promoters, North One Sport to monitor sponsor exposure in the TV coverage of the event.

TV exposure of WRC has a global reach of over 570 million homes across 180 countries.

Our role is to ensure that the Wales branding reflects their title sponsor status as well as ensuring all other opportunities for TV exposure are identified and fulfilled. These include briefing notes for the TV commentators, procuring relevant postcard footage for use in preview and review programmes, planning of banner placements with TV crews and checking of on event  banner placements within the televised stages and main spectator areas.

A new development in the TV coverage in 2011 was the introduction of live TV coverage of the final stage of the event where we again liaised with the producer and technical team to ensure the Wales exposure as principal sponsor was delivered.

WRGB pictures courtesy of Les Kolzcak.

 

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