Spotlight Media Labs & The Players’ Tribune
Spotlight Media Labs and The Players’ Tribune announced today that The Players’ Tribune will be joining Spotlight’s rapidly growing list of news and specialty publishers. The Players’ Tribune’s first-person stories from athletes will begin appearing on Spotlight in the coming weeks.
“We are thrilled to add this one-of-a-kind sports publication which complements Spotlight’s existing sports coverage with unique insights only the athletes, themselves, can provide. Stories from athletes will begin to appear on Spotlight in the coming weeks,” said Tamer Morsy, founder and CEO of Spotlight.
About The Players’ Tribune
The Players’ Tribune is a first-of-its-kind content platform that was developed by athletes for athletes to connect them with fans through the power of storytelling. By giving athletes the tools to create truly personal content and tell their stories, The Players’ Tribune is reimagining the world of sports and culture through the player’s point of view. More than 2,000 athletes have contributed to the platform through impactful and powerful long and short-form stories, video series, and audio. Founded by Derek Jeter in 2014, and acquired by Minute Media in 2019, TPT provides unique insight into the daily sports conversation and brings fans closer than ever to the games they love.
About the Spotlight Media Labs (https://spotlightnews.us) is a fresh news distribution company dedicated to the unfiltered and unbiased delivery of content from a broad range of publications. The company’s SpotlightNews® mobile and web applications provide a quality reading experience free of pop-ups, screen takeovers, and sponsored links. With its proprietary MyNewsstand™ technology, users can tailor their news feed to the publications and topics they are interested in. SpotlightNews® uniquely targets college students and young alumni, counting over 100 college newspapers amongst its publisher partners.
Spotlight’s mission is to support publishers of all sizes by offering them national reach on a state-of-the-art digital platform. Spotlight offers advertisers a prized younger demographic because of its early focus on college and university publications. Spotlight delivers to publishers incremental readership from this younger demographic and pledges to return 70 cents of every dollar their content generates on the platform.
